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Special Field Days For Merino Breeders, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia Jan 1967

Special Field Days For Merino Breeders, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

More than 200 Merino stud breeders attended special stud breeding and fertility field days arranged for them by the Department of Agriculture recently.

Breeders attending represented some 40 per cent of the State's Merino studs.


Famous Sheep Breeds : The Merino, J A. Mallett Jan 1960

Famous Sheep Breeds : The Merino, J A. Mallett

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE Merino breed has often been described as "the Royal Family of the Sheep World" and this title was never more applicable than in the case of the presentday Australian Merino—a sheep which, in addition to producing the world's most valuable wool is so staunchly-constitutioned that it will thrive under a wide range of conditions and has survived droughts in which the hardy native animals perished in thousands.