DROUGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES
WORST EVER EXPERIENCED
STOCK DYING IN THOUSANDS
By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Reo, November 7, S p'.ui.)
Sydney, November.7. The. drought conditions-arc daily growing more serious. It is eta ted that threefourths of New South Wales is suffering. Over wide districts tho drought is tho worst ever experienced. ' Tho wheat crop is largely a failure, and is being cut for fodder. Rcservo stocks which have been almost used up aro selling at prohibitive prices. Pastoraiists are suffering tremendous losses and are rushing stock to market to prevent it dying, and telling at tho lowest prices for years. In some districts owners aro knocking lambs and calves on the head so as to givo tho mothers a chance of life. In'-tho far west pastoraiists aro abandoning their holdings, after removing such stock as aro abio to travel. Cattle, snoop and horses are dying, by thousands'.- Sheep which are too -weak to walk are shorn, in tho paddocks and then their throats arc cut. It is predicted that unless there is rain before Christinas: th» (bought will spell national calamity, and even if rain comes 600n it is. feared that much of tho stock will bo too weak to recover.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 38, 8 November 1919, Page 7
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