WHAT DO SHEEP EAT?
NOT EASILY ANSWERED “What do sheep eat?” A question simple enough, indeed, but when Dr. L. Cockayne, the em.inent New Zealand botanist, went down to the South Island to investigate it, he found he could get no definite answer from squatters, farmers, shepherds, drovers, or even biologists. So with an assistant he set to work to attempt to discover the likes and dislikes of the sheep, with the result that he found that it was an extremely fastidious animal.
The point was raised at Wellington when Dr. Cockayne was delivering an address to the new-constituted Royal Society of New Zealand, stressing the need for investigation into biological problems in New Zealand. In Central Otago, for instance, Dr. Cockayne said, squatters told him that if it were not for wing thistles they would have to leave their farms, but it was found upon investigation that sheep did not touch those thistles at all.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 12
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156WHAT DO SHEEP EAT? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 12
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