MIXED FARMING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 8

MIXED FARMING

POPULARITY INCREASES The low prices that have been ruling; for dairy produce during the past few seasons, and the bettor prices for sheep, liavo caused Taranaki dairy farmers to turn their attention more to sheep breeding; not with the idea of going out of dairying altogether, but of going in for mixed farming. It is recognised too that it is good farm practice to carry a few sheep with the dairy stock. The breeds of sheep that are in general favour in North Taranaki are the Romney and the Southdown, but Mr. It. Weeden, a progressive young Pukearuhe farmer, who came out to New Zealand as an English Public School boy, has started out on an entirely new line for North Taranaki with the purchase of foundation stock for a Corriedale flock. He has procured through Wright. Stephenson and Co., Ltd., a line of 25 pure-bred Corriedale owes and a ram from the flock of Mr. Hugh Ensor, a noted breeder of North Canterbury. The experiment will be watched with interest, as there has been some doubt as to whether the Corriedale will do well in Taranaki. It is thought, however, that the coastal pastures in the northern part, where conditions are driest, should be the most suitable place in Taranaki.