PRINCIPLES OF LIVE-STOCK BREEDING.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 20 August 1923, Page 130

PRINCIPLES OF LIVE-STOCK BREEDING.

The annual report of the .Board of Agriculture for the year ended 30th April last states under the heading- of.— Principles of Live-stock.. Breeding”: : “ During the year the Board has been giving a good deal of attention to this most important subject as a result of a communication received from the Franklin Agricultural ■arid'' Pastoral Association. Several members of the Board, and the Department of Agriculture; at the request of the Board, have collected a, great amount of useful information. The papers prepared by the members of the Board, and also a most valuable one read at a meeting of the Board by Mr. W. D. Hunt, giving the results of his experience, have already been forwarded to the Franklin Association, and are attached hereto. At a later date, when additional reports. on the subject which the 1 Board is securing from abroad’ come to hand, it is the intention to prepare and . publish a digest of all the . papers for circulation to breeders in the Dominion. This will enable those interested in breeding in the Dominion to compare their practice with what obtains elsewhere, and ensure that sound ■ principles are followed. This subject is more particularly interesting to stud-stock breeders, but nevertheless all farmers who are raising stock should have some knowledge of the principles of breeding) and the publication of this data should be of considerable benefit to them. Members of the Council [of Agriculture] and breeders generally are cordially invited to assist the Board in its investigations by submitting papers giving the result of their’experience.”.’ ■’ 'A The papers referred to are by Sir James Wilson (including letters from . the late James Little of Corriedale fame), and Messrs. Edwin Hall; W. Perry, D. Marshall, John Ewan; and, as mentioned, W. D. Hunt. The latter ■■ contribution is reprinted elsewhere in,thiS issue under the title of “ Breeding of t Farm Animals.”