NEW ZEALAND’S LAMBING
ESTIMATES FOR THE SEASON following are complete estimates of the ' current season’s lambing, computed from estimated average percentages furnished by Inspectors of Stock in the various districts. Gorrospbnding figures for the four previous Years /together with the actual numbers of lambs tailed, five aNo given for comparison.
NORTH ISLAND Number of brooding ewes: 1921, 6,312,56 ; 1922, 6,771.182 ; 1923, ,7j--170.lot; 1924. 7,148,949; 1925. 7,463,7 . Estimated average percentage of lambing; 1921, 89.65; 1922. 90.36; 1923, 91.34; 1924, 85.00; 1925 85.64. Estimated number of lambs for same periods: 5,659,35-j ; 0.118,o30; 6,549,143; 6,049,654; 6,391,812. Actual number of lambs tailed; 5,157.613; 5,955.081 ; 6.170,673; 6,199,881 . SOUTH ISLAND Number of breeding ewes: 5,835,332; 5,724,572; 5,892,849; 5,927,145: 6.251 '.488. Estimated average percentage of lambing': 88.28; 82.53 ; 83.999 ; 87.87; 78.61. number of lambs: 4,859.425; 4,724,475 ; •4,949,313; 5,208,378 ; 4,914,046. Actual number of lambs tailed: 4,810,258 ; 1.940,440 ; 4.962,663 ; 5.267.. 266. DOMINION. TOTALS Number of breeding ewes: 12,147,788; 12,496.054; 13,063,003; 13,076,694 ; 13, 715,223. Estimated average percentage of lamliing: 86.59; 86.77; 88.02; 86.14; 82.43.. Estimated number of lambs: 10,518,780 ; 10,843,005 ; I 1.498,456 ; 11 258,030 ;' t 1.305,858. Actual number of lambs tailed: 10,'207,910; 10.895.521 ; 11. 133,336; I I i 167,147
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 5
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189NEW ZEALAND’S LAMBING Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 5
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