Better Cattle
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Beef and Butter in Fiji
r:E cattle-farming industry of Fiji continues steadily to improve.
There now are numerous dairy farms in Fiji and, up until 1934 Fiji was not only supplying all its own requirements in butter, but was exporting a substan tial surplus. It then became apparent that it was possible to convert the sur plus of Fijian butter into an article call ed ghee, which is much in demand by the Indian population; and from that time onwards the exports of Fijian but ter and the imports of Indian ghee were cut out.
Mr. J. T. Bayly, of Sigatoka, Fiji, who is the foremost breeder of cattle in the colony, has just imported into Fiji two Red Poll heifers and a yearling Red Poll bull, of the famous Haddon Rig stud at Warren, New South Wales. Mr. Bayly, using these newly-imported cattle, pro poses to establish at his Sigatoka estate a high class stud, from which he will breed a better class of bulls for his vari ous herds.