THOUSANDS OF SHEEP
STOCK LOSSES IN OTAGO
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Losses of stock on the higher levels as a result of the snow storm are estimated at 50 per cent; Vast tracts of snow have cut off all feed,.and sheep not buried will be. unable to find a blade of grass anywhere. Thousands'of sheep are buried under deep snow. While the snow remained open before the surface became frozen, there was hope for many of these buried sheep, but the last few nights have been marked by heavy frosts and the surface of the snow is now caked, effectively cutting off the passage of air to the sheep. The possibility of a quick thaw is now remote, for the barometer has reached its highest level for months past, and'this in itself indicates a series of severe frosts which can only "tend to make the situation considerably worse. Farmers on the lower levels are not so seriously situated, for their stock can be helped out with, hand feeding. Chaff, hay, and turnips are being given stock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 20
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182THOUSANDS OF SHEEP Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 20
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