DROP IN LAMBS
POSITION ON BANKS
PENINSULA
A lamb buyer on Banks Peninsula estimates that there will be a 15 per cent, drop in lambs this season in the Akaroa, Wairewa, ajid Mount Herbert county districts, reports the Christchurch "Press." He states that usually about 240,000 fat lambs go off the Peninsula each season.
The dry autumn conditions arid the I effect of the snowstorm and loss of ewes, he considers, will affect this to tal by something like 36,000 lambs. From information he has received from j sheep farmers he considers these figures will be fairly accurate. The percentages vary in the various districts. In Pigeon Bay, he says, the numbers of lambs are 30 per cent, lower than usual.
Speaking of the loss of ewes during the July snowstorm and since, he computes these losses at 25,000 ewes. Besides the losses during tlie snowstorm, he says there has been a heavy mortality of ewes during the lambing season through the late spring growth and weak condition of the ewes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 106, 1 November 1939, Page 18
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171DROP IN LAMBS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 106, 1 November 1939, Page 18
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