SYDNEY SHEEP SHOW
PREFERENCE FOR CROSSBREDS.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, SYDNEY, June 30. .', (Received Juno 30, at 8.15 p.m.) .- At the official luncheon in connection? with the slieep dhow Sir Francis Sutton', referred to iho decrease in merinos. HeVsaul that with tho smailer areas of land' available the man on ths land was going in for (cro.\abreds, for which ho could; more readily get a nwvkct and which paid; better. All over Australia, New Zealand,',, and South America crossbreds were in-V creasing at the eipenso of the 'marinas/' In 1901 there were 39,000,000 merinos and 3,030,000 crossbreds in New South Wales/; and now 'there were 41,000,000 merinos' and 5,0 M,OOO crossbreds. ""
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15184, 1 July 1911, Page 9
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