SCATTERED SHEEP STUDS.
PARTITION 1 POLICY BLAMED. ■ > l IS THE; HARM. PERMANENT ? From many quarters have come complaints that the partition of the big estates is damaging tlie sheep industry because it bursts up the big stud flocks and scatters them to the ends of the Dominion, to Jose their identity in the cpnimon mobs. The damage is perhaps pyorrestimated. .It is further said that s.rrtall pastoralists do not keep good studs. This may be correct to some extent, but .it;<<is" contended by others that if the largen'jjsstoralists, with' their famous' highquality vanished, the small'men would ,bejfekijuraged to, go more largely into stud worlcfor themselves. "Whether their success ,bo equal to that of . the men with grffltef-i- flocks may bo doubted, but at all evgnfe. -the disaster would scarcely bo so compl?te;?ias is sometimes predicted. In Canterhjfry, just now there are a great many hlgjwclass stucl flocks'of small dimensions. Tifeso; 'the numbers of sheep oynSjl by Canterbury men whose names figuro ip tfi'e pure-breed classes at the best shows'— 872, 887, 972, 1100, 1147, 1354, 1412 '150O,"175O, 1869, 3700, 14,000, 15,000, etc".'.';. ' • •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 3
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182SCATTERED SHEEP STUDS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 3
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