BLOODSTOCK

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11394, 15 December 1922, Page 3

BLOODSTOCK

ENGLISH IMPORTATIONS. EXCLUSIVE SOCIETIES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.. (Received December 14, 7.46. p.m.) LONDON, December 13. An authority on British bloodstock cattle, in an interview, pointed ' out even though the British embargo hadbeen removed it would not produce any considerable importations in' bloodstock cattle from Australia and New Zealand. There was only likely to be an occasional importation from one or two of Australia’s and New Zealand’s bast herds. These would be imported only wifh A view to testing the effeotof crossing,' Apart from the removal cf any official embargo, such importations would entirely depend upon the attitude of the bloodstock breeding societies. If the latter refused to admit Australasian importations to their herd books it would he useless to send breeding cattle to Britain. NOT RECOGNISED. He instanced the Friesians recently imparted from South Africa. The breeders there imagined that they were going to flood Britain with high-priced Friesiaiis. hut the societies, after completing the importation of specially selected stock required for a specifio purpose, refused to reejognise any further shipments. WORK OF SINN FEIN. The authority incidentally declared that a recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease was due to- Irish Siun Feinem, who deliberately injected an infection into the cattle before shipment to England, with the result that when the cattle were marketed, the disease spread throughout the country.