FARM AND STATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 21 June 1927, Page 7

FARM AND STATION

"HEREFORDS THE BEST" MORE CATTLE MEANS MORE SHEEP "A good quantity of boot' cattle .must be maintained, as deterioration of laud is duo, to a largo degree, to the fact that farmers arc not stocking so many cuttle as they did formerly," Such was the opinion expressed by Mr. B. E. Short, president of theN.Z. Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association, at Palnierston North last week. Where cattle were stocked there was no second growth and no fern. "To my mind," .said Mr. Short, "no breed is as satisfactory in tin* respect as the Hereford, as, even when knocked about, the breed will fatten. It is a well-known fact that cunning more cattle means running more sheep." It was gratifying, he went on to say, to hear that Mr. Moore had carried off the Australian championship for all breeds with a New Zealand-bred Hereford, and also that a Hereford had won the fat beef championship at Chicago, beating the Aberdeen Angus. He stated, however, that the export trade in beef was falling off, as in 1922-23 125,000 quarters had been exported,, and last, year only 30,000, a fact not altogether to bo explained away by increased home consumption. In conclusion, he stressed the point that Herofords did better than other breeds on rough country, and expressed the opinion that breeders need have no fear for the future.