STOCK IMPROVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 230, 24 June 1943, Page 6

STOCK IMPROVEMENT

Proposed Inspection On

Farms

Several remits which came before the annual meeting of tlie Koyal Agricultural Society in Wellington yesterday, evoked discussions on the prevention ot the sale of inferior male animals tor breeding. The southern district council recommended in one remit that breed societies be asked to discuss the practicability of inspection on farms of all flock and stud rams intended for sale, and m another remit that the inspection of flock and stud rams intended for sale be carried out on farms if practicable, and that all yeiected rams be destroyed or olaerwisc disposed of. Both remits were adopted. Several sneakers said that the typo ot ram entered at ram fairs had b.-cn unproved greatly by the system of demanding from the owner of each ram as a Condition of entry, the right to destroy or desex it if an inspector rejected it as not good enough to sell. Speakers who supported the remits replied that many sales were not made at fairs and that wps the reason why inspection and destruction on farms was wanted., A remit that steps should be taken to institute a svstem of elimination ol: scrub bulls on the lines adopted in an English Act was withdrawn after discussion and it was resolved that Mr. M. M. Bisli’ell a member of the central district council, which had sent forward the remit be invited to convene a committee to report on and make suggestions for live stock improvement schemes ear y enough for the report to be circulated to breed societies ami A. and P. associations before the next annual meeting.