MAGNIFICENT GRASS.

Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 18 February 1921, Page 3

MAGNIFICENT GRASS.

BUT COWS ARE INFERIOR. VISITOR ’S HINT TO FARMERS. "A land of magnificent pastures and poor cows," is the condensed criticism of New Zealand offered by a South African visitor. Mr. E. W. Evans, president of the Agricultural Co-operative Union of South Africa, and Mr. Allister M. Miller, President of the South African Cattle Brooders' Association, have- been touring Australia and New Zealand to study the cattle industry, and to secure stud stock for South Africa. They were very favourably impressed with the climate of Now •Zealand, and express the opinion that New Zealand can be made the great stud country of the Southern Hemisphere. The .future, they think, will be very closely associated with the dairying and breeding industries. "But I am surprised. - ' continued * Mr. Miller, "that a country with such W pastures and such a climate as Now should have, on the average, poor cows. My investigations lend me to the conclusion that the standard of the dairy herds, with some notable except ions, is not what it should be, and that it New Zealand farmers want to increase their profits all they have to do is to go in for a bettor class of Cow.'