SHEEP.MATTERS.
' A gentleman'who lias'-recently visited Mas' terton states that- Mr, John Birch;'of Podgaroa, has had 900 wethers on 150 acres for - •' sis weeks pasty, and a j*reat percentage "of " ' tbem are fat. Conditions are different' around'Ek'etahuna, whero they are not-send-ing out as many, as 20 per cent, of the number of sheep that were ready last year, ; On one farm, near Opaki a grain crop of 40 acres in stock was destroyed by fire, /and the owner expressed the opinioiv that .if:tho irrigation water proposed some time' a£o;had been supplied, it would liavo been sufficient to stop the fire there and in other places.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 103, 24 January 1908, Page 2
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104SHEEP.MATTERS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 103, 24 January 1908, Page 2
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