FAT SHEEP.
"Well-grassed-;pastures and ,a fine mild winter are responsible. for the-present; demand for store sheep. / They iare being-fattened in great' numbers in all parts ,of ..the ■ district, and there should be ample feed for months to; come.Contrary, to earlier expectation, /it is now considered that fat sheep will not be at a' very high/price this winter.- Had ; it. not been for the. splendid'manner in which the country.had reoovered-itself and.the exceedingly mild; weather (said v.a; .Wairarapa auctioneer ;.. to . our.. correspondent),'. there would- have i been: seen",'at i-tinie /of the year, .thousands ..of. sheep .being, railed' to'the; Wellington meat' works,,: consigned to. the boiling-pot. A pronounced loss, however, is the dearth of swede turnips, crops, of which wero.. almost ruined wholesalo .by'.the - late drought. •... In some :vinstances, the ' -loss amounted to nine-tenths of the' entire crop sown. . :. v . •. .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 212, 1 June 1908, Page 3
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137FAT SHEEP. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 212, 1 June 1908, Page 3
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