BRITISH SHEEP FARMERS
“NOTHING TO LEARN FROM NEW ZEALAND”
A recent farmer visitor to New Zealand, Mr A. C. Hill, of Hertfordshire, gave his impressions of sheep-farming methods in this country to the National Sheep Breeders’ Association’s conference held in Cardiff recently. He said that as a result of his visit to this country he felt confident that British farmers had nothing to learn from us so far as general feeding and management of livestock are concerned.
“A hundred ewes, here, will produce considerably more lambs than the same humber of ewes over there—which must help us in our struggle to make a profit,” he said. “They, however, have great advantages in climate, which provides them with growing grass for 11 months of the year. This means that lambs are produced entirely from grass —no artificial feeding being given or required.
“Apart from some minor features of dipping and clipping,” he continued, “there are no outstanding lessons which New Zealand sheep farmers can teach Great Britain.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23610, 10 September 1938, Page 20
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