MANAGING THE FLOCK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

MANAGING THE FLOCK.

COMPARISON OF METHODS. The claim that New Zealand could teach England nothing in the management of the flock was made by Mr A. C. Hill, of Hatfield. Hertfordshire, at the recent Rothamsted conference on the place of sheep in modern farming. “As a result of tt v visit to New Zealand parly last year. I have every confidence in saying that we have nothing to learn from them so far as general feeding and management are concerned,” said Mr Hill. if A hundred ewes here will produce considerably more lambs than the same number of ewes over there —which must mean a profit to us. They, however, have great advantages in climate, which provides them with growing grass for Il months of the year. This means that lambs are produced entirely from grass, no artificial feeding being required or given. Apart from some minor features with regard to dipping and clipping, there are no outstanding lessons which they can teach the Home Country. “The breed of ewo largely predominating out there is the Kent (Romney Marsh!, which has been crossed, with several breeds of rams, but they are now using practically nothing but the Routhdown. which produces very un form carcases, as seen in our butchers’ »hops to-day. ’ ’