IMPRESSIONS OF RANGITIKEI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 652, 1 November 1909, Page 10

IMPRESSIONS OF RANGITIKEI.

| ( SHEEP ,AWP|§O^IjS I*4- No doubt- tho weather has.jnterfered.a good' i: i t 1 ■. ieai with .she<Sp. workj-jpaHicularly 'ii^dacfcing 1 r-if. .-; lambs .; (says,, our;; travelling correspondent).-. L it !, i:. sawva good-jnaSiytlam&3 an' thrfßangitikoi 'and? :.',i Feilding distncts which httd been; left for. toolong—in fact, in one -pjiddock.'.-I.tnoticed,' some! ;i ; . ;f' ■. which wora tor,the butcher,:bu,t v §till ■w; not docked 1 .!: |I' ~do' nofclcnowr.wiietbertthertt.is.: .v«:a <r any .. reason for;,thjs,; apart: frouu the,,weather,' ,i.. but ;ccrtain )IHhave! 6een : /mofo'ibig <i . , • : lambs not docked'this,seaspn than- Per-.. 1. haps: the. lambs. "fall ;mucb; !; now thac searing irons aro morem use. .- When -!,. ■ tho knife: Is used ■ thero: Is generally a consider- . .ofi'Jjlood) ithough to be sure/; niany , i, v .i.ifarmers.thwlkith'jitjthat TosS'';doe3 stroqgrlambs no/harhi:' j-KitfffotS-iSome say that it 1 does 'good, ■:s,..as, -when the . ewes havo a full! il&w'. of: milk J , ' : . : and there is a \ot of grass, the areliable : to die from, "too-much condition." Anytfayl' •J.;,!,--.. suoh_a ( wondorful_ Coip L of . ; lambs {Ms . year: (Eat a moderate" percentage of i V.:- "deiths would hot matter. •.-'. : ........ - 1 ■It is the same wherever,l go—^big percentages everywhere One glance at the lambing ,11 paddocks discloses the position—they seem simply ,to be alive with lambs. Of : coursc, formers 'who have not .bofin s®fortnnate,;but theso are tho exceptions. ■ - Kemarkftble ? percentages; apnear->to r -,havß</been r ,t. obtamOd. from . soibf?\two-tiK|th , DJriuks, ijMid X} , . have ;seen that , percentage WTunjgas : Wgii asrj ■ i.- mnaty-eight.-. A.few years have! : ,been".thought'impossible. T - • v Another noticeable ,effect .of .cms,unusual wet-/ .if liess,of--tho,season is-.the ,vorj?Jl|i|g6Samount of'1 viand .which has in some, distprftlf pSm ploughed! -■: : for months, but not work?j!i''.'ib.}fiaving been, : impossible .to get on -to with .the.! : teams.j'j This, of-course, nitons yptj, late- sow-- ; „ ing, and'ia lato. harvost ,^th ,! ligM ) 'crops. iu «Alsci • large areas,would have to be resown, on account of-; tho,"i<!ed having perished, while many pad.docks du-.the districts to which I refer were ~ ■ : lookinEVmuch too, rusty to be pleasant, v Grass generally.'.was plentiful, except in - some of the . colder clay.lands. The constant soaking which •« it recofved kept,the soil' yery cold, and, -since. : - ■!., then, fiho .weather has set in, and made all the 1 difference, s