IMPROVING DOWNS
Massey College Programme
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON. May 2.
An experimental programme designed to improve the characteristics of Southdown sheep has been launched by Massey University College. The aim of the project is to speed up the rate of growth, reduce face cover and produce sheep that have a high proportion of red. lean meat wi the high-priced parts of the-carcase. Some details of the programme were given by Mr R A Barton, senior lecturer in sheep husbandry at Massey, at a meeting of the council of the Southdown Sheep Society of New Zealand in Palmerston North last night Immediate plans, he said, were to investigate and evolve the most satisfactory method of progeny-testing Southdowns to discover sires that leave fast-growing offspring with the most desirable meat characteristics
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30121, 3 May 1963, Page 12
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130IMPROVING DOWNS Press, Volume CII, Issue 30121, 3 May 1963, Page 12
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