SCATTERING STUD STOCK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 2

SCATTERING STUD STOCK.

WHAT THE .13 URSTING-'[JP ; POLICY IS ■' DOING. The bursting-up policy that has been ■ ap-.. plied to.large.estates-in New Zealand (Says ''Old 1 Breeder." ,in the ".New Zealand Fanner ") is having one regrettable feature... For many .years past, pedigree 'studb have been.bred up.on thtjs'o estates, and the.stock . brought to a high- stato of-perfection. It might bo readily assumed that, at tho (lis- , peresl sales I ', "the 1 ' stock : would go into new hands 'and thus be the means of. increasing-, the/number of. breeders of sttid stock.;', Stick,',, however, is not the !case*_ so'far. as increasing ; the number of breeders /.is concerned. '; There / is a vast difference; between a breeder of stud ; stock and a daler in stud stock,. and the dispersals havq- ortly -increased 1 the number., of owners of ; stud • stock, wlio would/'buy anything from, a /puro-bre'd shorthorn '.bull to;/ a pedigreo bantain,;roo'3tcr|; in the hope 0f..; turning it over'at a profit.' vThis' is what the' dispersal [sales :are doing, and, the position'will make itself, felt before long., It is. astonishing liow qhickly: typo i deteriorates;, when a stud is distributed into many hands, ~' and when type is '■ lost : it becomes a difficult matter to get rid of the imperfections.'Every disporsal sale ; of stud stock that is brought : abou'tj: therefore, bepomos a loss . to' tho country.i The- stock are scattered to the four,., winds to .b£; "snapped up by tliose who - carp ■/• nothingfor-'shape and substance in animals, merely viewing th'eni from ah £ s. d. stand-'" point. But the day will como when the ; standard drops, and profits, are, hard to obtain, and then, -and only , then, will the worthlessncss of tho' work 'of. the' " dealer breeder" bo seen.