WHAT DO SHEEP EAT?
“What do sheep eat?” A question simple enough indeed, but when Dr L. Cockayne, the eminent 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 recently when Dr Cockayne was delivering an addiess to the newly-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 wini thistles they would have to leave their farms, but it was found upon investigation that sleep did not touch those thistles at all
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3468, 19 May 1934, Page 6
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