FAT LAMB EXPORT.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13981, 17 November 1917, Page 2

FAT LAMB EXPORT.

■FARMERS OPPOS.E SUGGESTED

RESTRICTION,

CnUTSTCHUHCH, November 14. The Canterbury Sheep (Wars' Union last week decided to recommend to the Government that no lambs under.34lo,. weight should be frozen this season. „ That the renommendntion doe? not oo'm* eide with the views of a largo section . of the sheep farmers!in the province was evidenced yesterday, when a meeting of about a hundred of them nt tho Addington Yards empowered Mr Leicester Matfion to send a telegram to the Minister of Agriculture in' Wellington protesting against the suggested restric- : tion. The view was generally Jdd that fanners would be quite wHlilßo confine freezing for export ' quality lambs, and would agrfe that no white-faced owes lambs should; be killed after April Ist next Discussing the matter with various' farmers yesterday, a newspaper reporter gathered that many farmers, in conso-...: 1 quencc of having, at the urgent request 1 of'the Government, devoted more land? - ' than usual to wheat growing, they will ■ 1 haye.less feed in the autumn, and,will', thus be compelled to get their .lanital. 1 away as early as possible, and 1 ewes as milk" lambs. An expert, with about twenty five \ears' experience of handling and diafting fat lambs, stated that tho pioposal was of too radical I a mtuie altogether, for every year the freezing woiks handled thousands of prime lanibs that wore under 341b .weight These lambs came from (listucts where it was qmto impossible to obtain heavy weights, for the simple i reason that the feed went off about the - Nen -Ycai, and the lambs hud to bo disposed of then, else they would go back in condition, 'flic imposition of a 311b minimum would piacticallj cut out tpe„ ', halfl)i eii wethers from tho export traded altogethoi Another point made Ws|f£ that as many growers intended >to |fn( tftin more owe lambs this season for i breeding purposes, they would need to reserve autumn feed for this purpose-; , so that any lambs s to bo exported would V* ' have, to ba sent early to the freezing ■vrorls. t ' - **> ," ' „ *