VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 9

VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS

FARMING 11! HEW ZEALAHD “HIS FAVORITE COUNTRY.” Air A. G. Ramsbay. of East Appleton, Catterick, England, the wellknown Wensleydale shccpbrcedei, who returned recently from a world tour, spoke on farming in the dominion to farmers at Northallerton. He said that New Zealand remained his favorite country. A young man willing to work there need never want. The prospective farmer, howovei, needed plenty of capital, because land was increasing in value. Farmers who had settled thirty years ago were now the wealthy men. Oulv by settling m the backwoods, working hard, and waiting long, could a man come into his own now. i.u 189 U .sheep were making Is 6d to 2s per head, and three years later they went up to 10s to 15s per head. Since then the New Zealand sheep farmers had not looked back. They specialised in Romney Marsh, and, although they denied it. their success had come by crossing their stock with merino, Lincoln, recrossing, they' had . produced a sheep of Leicester and Southdown. Crossing and recrossing they had produced a sheep of good carcass, and the fleece was almost perfect. The fat lamb trade was one of the chief agricultural industries. They had made progress by trying to produce sheep of small joints which would sell on the London market.