HUGE DROUGHT LOSSES
MILLIONS FEWER SHEEP New South Wales is 10,000,000 sheep and lambs short of a year ago as a result of drought losses and inability to mate ewes because of seasonal conditions. Yet values for fat sheep at the end of September were lower than 12 months previously. Market conditions do not provide " encouragement for the rebuilding of sheep flocks or enable graziers to recover their drought losses. Over wide areas stock-owners are shearing smaller clips than in 1944. As a result of poor pastures the wool shorn is no tonly smaiier in quantity hut lacks normal growth and condition. Much of it shows weakness or tenderness of staple
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 23 October 1945, Page 3
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