ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3070, 4 May 1917, Page 8

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE

A BUYER DISCUSSES N.Z. STOCK. ■ : Mr. John Moir, a well-known buyer of cattle, who has been visiting the Dominion at intervals for 6ome years purchasing stock for Queensland, is at present-in Hastings and, in an interview with a "Napier Telegraph" reporter on Wednesday, said that tho .consignment of Aberdeen-Angus cattle, got together by him.for shipment to Queensland, leaves there at an. early date. This is by far the oest shipment of■ the breed that has yet left New Zealand, some of the heifers boing. of merit. Mr. Moir-*says it is just as hard to got,the breeders to part with "their females in Now Zealand as it is in any other country, but such men as Mr. Bernard-'Chainbers.and Mr. H. B. Williams, who own practically tho two best studs in New Zealand, have inado sacrifices in the interests of the breed, in this respect as well as from a pecuniary standpoint. \ - "There is no doubt that the extensive exportation of Aberdeen-Angus to Queensland has resulted in the very much higher prices that aro now in vogue in New Zealand, and it is hard to think that the people who bonefit most by it aro those who have no interest in the breed, further than that of pounds, shillings and pence. "Still, tho moro good cattlo that are exported the easier will it be to sell the weedy ones locally, and this is the greatest danger that faces tho breed. 1 would rejjjojijce to seo eimilar legisla tion applied Ao cattlo that is contemplated for Clydesdales. , "If this is too drastic something ought to be doiio in the way of preventing inferior animals from being sold as studs, and thus perpetuating their species per means of stud book registration. If tho stud book authorities wero to insist on all snimals being up to a certain standard of merit, beforo they could be entered in their volumes, and a stringent rule put into •force whereby no breeder could sell rh .animal, thus registered, under a hundred guineas, very probably the AberdeenAngus breed would bo on tho road to success." ,

According to the Southland "Times," Mr. John M'Quecn is "out" against horns of cattle. Exhibiting a "horned" carcass of beef to a party, of interested hearers in tho Jlakarewa freezing works recently, he instanced the waste caused by tho defensive app'ondages, and spoko feelingly of tho cruelty inflicted. His plan was to have passed an Act making it penal to have horned animals in possession after two years from'date of passing.