On the cattle farm we saw over thirty Ayshire and Holstein. bulls. The finest, a superb black and whit, was imported, they told us, "from America at a cost of G$6.500 at a time when gold meant gold. A fine Jmodern dairy was selling milk and Butter at cost prices, as the govern. ment wishes to. teach the people to include these in a national diet st present known to be lacking in fats. Merino sheep, which will not live in the south island owing to the prevalence of bamboo grass, are also being bred in' Hokkaido.' Potatoes,
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