DOCKING.
' In connection with docking operations, which are now being carried on in. different portions of the country (writes, our .Wairarapa correspondent), many farmers, [have adopted tho practice of searing the tails 1 in preference to the old method of cutting them. Searing has been proved to provide, an antiseptic to the wound, and at the same'time, by preventing loss of blood, it enables tho lamb to retain its strength moro fully ; and to be in condition earlier for market purposes.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 3
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81DOCKING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 3
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