WATER SCARCE.
DO SHEEP DRINK? is beginning to be a problem (wrm*» our travol mg correspondent from the slopes of thq.Pykotois).' What little is left in.the tanks is being carefully conserved for household use. \\\ atcr for v,-ashing has to be'carried up hill—in tho majority, of cases from tno crocks in the lowest gullies—and hi many paddocks now there is no water at all. Everything is completely dried up—water; grass, woeds, all havo disappeared. Do sheep drink is an old question. I remember the subicct. being debated 111 tho "'Newcastle Chronicle " at Homo over thirty years ago. • Those who took part cn either side were equally emphatic in their assertion or denial.' The'' should seo tho sheep in Horoeka. All the' dried^ras" 11 ' S 3 c '™' £ ,va te r a »d smoko
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 2
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131WATER SCARCE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 2
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