N.S.W. PASTORAL INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 13

N.S.W. PASTORAL INDUSTRY

FAYOURABLB SPRING OUTLOOK.

(.noit om own .co&rmfokibit.j.'".' ' .'■ SYDNEY,. 15th Augnst. ; The springoutlook for lambing .-in New South Wales is regaMed as most favourable. The rspring. lambing, :it: is anticipated, will be much mora success-' fur than the autumn and the winter as i about 2.224.00P lambs are-expected to be marked, being about 63.per cent, of the ewes mated. It is estimated that the number of ewes in the' State on'3lst December was 18,334,000; th» number mated 10,922,000, and the probable number of'lambs ma,rked 4,827,000. 'The number believed to: be 'set ■ down'for J P«?%^ r ?ummer lambing is set down at _3,554,q00, including a portion of the ewes which failed to lamb during the autumn. During tht early, months' of' this year, many, sheep breeders had'tc resort to nand-feeding. and scrubrcuttins- in order to maintain the flocks, - both -ewes and?; rams being in low condition.. In .-the hope that more favourable; conditions would prevail, mating wig. consequently delayed Losses in. both ewes and lambs caused by crows, hawks, .foxes, and wUd dogs, have been heavy.in some districts.', The blow-fly pest, However; has not been so much id evidence. Owners have been ! bnoyed up by the good'rains that have fallen throughout the' State.' With' the prospect of good'pasturage being, thus' av a ,lab c , the outlook fo? the spring "is generally bright. ■ ,' '.. ';■ -r-