DOMINION STUD SHEEP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 8

DOMINION STUD SHEEP.

MARKET’ IN ARGENTINA

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. At present there is a big demand in the Argentine for New Zealand stud Corriedale and Southdown sheep, stated Mr E. St. C. Haydon, a stud stock manager, who has arrived to take up a position in New Zealand, in an interview. New Zealand should be able to build up an excellent export trade in such stock, he said, because of several factors. First, with large Southdown flocks to choose from, buyers coming to New Zealand could obtain high quality stock at a better price than would be asked for sheep of a similar standard from leading English studs. Moreover, the New Zealand breediug season corresponded witli that of the Argentine, instead of being opopsite, as in the Northern Hemisphere. This was an important factor to buyers of stud stock.

’flic third reason was that the stock was not subjected in transit to the intense heat of tho tropics. British sheep were reared under different conditions to those prevailing in the Argentine and did not always adapt themselves to their new surroundings as well as the hardier New Zealand animals brought up in conditions natural and more closely approximating to those of the Argentine.

“I’m not maintaining that New Zealand sheep are any better than those of Great Britain or vice versa,” he said, “but those are the reasons why Argentine sheep men are looking to New Zealand for stud stock.”