NEW ZEALAND PASTURES: AND STOCK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND PASTURES: AND STOCK.

■■■ — 1 — ■ ' HIGH PRAISE. "; (BT TELEGRAPH.—si'ECUt COKr.IOTONDENT.) '■ ; ■ . . Auckland, .September, 23. " A visitor to Auckland, who lias farmed in British; Columbia, Cam da, South Africa, and Australia, is much' impressod with Now Zealand. . What .has struck .him most favourably are our> stock and pasture lands. • "They are/' he declares, "equal to any in tho. world. Good pastuie lands' moan 1 good stock, and I believe that eventually this will be ; one of the greatest 'countries in. the world —if not the £reatest—for tho breeding of high-grado stud stock for 03port. I know you. have already done something in that direction. I have seon your' stud stock in Argentina, Africa, Australia, ■ and India.. Very fine they are. whether shcop, cattle, or horses; but you bardly touched, tho fringe of this business'yot. There-are'im-monso possibilities in it. What struck mo particularly when travelling through tho best parts of the North, Island was. tho fine appearance of the stock—sheop, cattle, and horses. I presume their condition was duo to' the excellent pasture you have every-, where.' I have never seen stock in any British colony quite as good, and I liavo • tiovor seon better pasture: feed anywhere. /The Canadian cattle are good, but yours are bettor —better even than tho famous Guelph 1 cattlo. :

"You see the effect in your butter. Tho New Zealand butter is. one-of tho finest flavoured in the world.. It compares favourably with tho Danish,-but you, do not got -it -in England as ; good as; it is hero. They givo you for the most part r. mixture, which 'is .called New Zealand butter. I did not. find •out how different it_ was from tho real filing till I came to New Zealand."