CONFERENCE DELEGATES

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 14

CONFERENCE DELEGATES

Interest In Sheep Several delegates to t e World Corriedale Conferer . held in Melbourne recent •, would be visiting New 7 •• land in the next few wt s to inspect the sheep indust . the president of the Con >• dale Sheep Society (Mr D L. Ensor, of Meth ven) said on his return to New Zealand Delegates from Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the United States and Canada would be among those coming to the Dominion, he said. A Canadian delegate to the conference, Dr. C. Bernard, a livestock research officer of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, arrived with Mr Ensor.

Dr. Bernard will be spending between a week to 10 days in the country and will inspect aspects of stud breeding, fat lamb production and Jersey cattle production. He is also interested in the research aspects of the livestock industry. Research Not many sheep were raised in Canada, and most of them were in the western provinces, he said. Nor did Canada have the research organisation behind its sheep industry that was apparent in both New Zealand and Australia. “We do not have the illusion that we can make Canada a sheep country,” he said. “Basically it is a cattle country, but there are areas where we can have sheep quite advantageously.” Canadians averaged only about 31b of mutton and lamb a heal of population a year, and most of this was imported, Dr. Bernard said. The country’s pork consumption was considerably larger, at approximately 581 b a person annually, and beef was even larger, at 791 b. “However, we feel that, with adequate promotion, the amount of mutton and lamb consumed could be increased quite considerably,” he said.