BEST FOR YEARS
WAIRARAPA LAMBING SEASON
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
MASTERTON, This Day.
One of the most satisfactory lambing! seasons for years has been recorded in the Wairarapa. Although the actual percentage is lower on account of the scarcity of twins, which is a feature of this year's lambing, the lambs them-' selves are of exceptionally good quality and early drafts of fat lambs are coming forward. The average lambing percentage is about 85 per cent., with about 95 per cent, for blackfaces. In one or two instances, very high percentages have been recorded I by blackface breeders. The comparative absence of twins reduced percentages from 5 to 10 per cent., but' this . was balanced by the generally. favourable season, marked by pen losses among ewes or lambs and the splendid quality of the lambs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1939, Page 11
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136BEST FOR YEARS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1939, Page 11
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