SHORN OR UNSHORN LAMBS.
; ■'.'•■ PEACTICAL FARMER FAVOURS v;;.-Vv.W ; ".,v . SHEARING. ; ; : ;In-a ! ;recent issue Dominion :. • particulars were published of the results -, 0 /, experiment's", carried out on one of the i: .Government, experimental farms in con-. : !;,;snection with the shearing' of lambs. Two '■;? fleets',■ ("each. containing .twenty lambs, , ''■jtei'6 set aside; one flock was shorn,. and ~ , thej.'pther/Nras, left', unshorn. A coni- ;,-'• parison' of., the' profits from each flock' ;. pas-made'at "the end. of two years, and results: showed; that the'- flock left un- :'■-,. shorn;-had'.returned the! greater profit.- ' ;;;;.'ln^.Ms 'budget of notes- to the "Wai- ,'( rararja.'.'Age.i' a:Kaipararo correspondent ;;-'/'writes.■;6.h-;.thisv subject as follows:—"A .'■:' s pra6ticalsfarmer of this district says that '-: •..■heV-hisVfouhd from experience that in v';;busK : cpvintty, .unless the climate is a ;:" dry .one, to ; shear lambs. If left' :i wool- hampers,.their ,<■■ njpvempnts, .during -the- summer months, i'; ahd.'s6 # ';preyents' them from -thriving.-- In J !..the.v.'winte,r: ; they are always, wet, and .... vjhfh- the'following shearing season comes V. roundv'they. shear badly, as most of the; :;%jroolvias;';by;.theh,:been torn off on logs, i - "-:' :-, • -'■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 8
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165SHORN OR UNSHORN LAMBS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 8
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