FAULTY FLOCKS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 6

FAULTY FLOCKS

TOO MUCH POOR WOOL

(Special to tho " Eveninn Post.")

MASTEETON,

This Day

"Prices for wool opened well last ■ year, but they were not maintained/ said tho retiring president (Mr. Adam McKay), referring at the annual meeting of the Mastcrton A. and P. Society to marketing and related questions. "Laihb and mutton prices liavo also been good compared with thoso of several years past, and this enabled sonic leeway to be made up. This created a certain amount of confidence which was needed. During the past year very little has been heard of our low grade and inferior wool, but wo cannot deny tho fact that we have far too much of tills class. Tho breeding of fat lambs is 0110 of the chief causes of this trouble, as a big proportion of our wool is off old ewes that do not produce tlio best, our best coming from hoggets, wethers, and young ewes. Also, every ewe lamb that docs not go to tho works finds a plaeo in some farmer's flock. In fact, culls from one farmer very often mako the flock of another, the result being that there arc scores of flocks being maintained with faulty sheep, either in wool, carcass, or constitution.

"Those in tho dairying industry aro also having a "bad time, although prices havo been fairly steady at a low lovel, and dairymen are naturally concerned with the suggestions of quotas, as after the war all wore asked to produce more, and this was done

1 '' The export trade in chilled beef is now an accomplished fact, and farmers will have to change their ordinary farm practice, and so prodiico the right class of cattle for this trade. They must be well-bred and not over three years of ago, and of prime quality."