TWO MILLION SHEEP DIE EVER YEAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 June 1929, Page 6

TWO MILLION SHEEP DIE EVER YEAR.

NEED POE BEST BRAINS. MASTEIiTON. Last Night. “In this land of huge refrigerating works, it is generally taken for granted that the normal end of a sheen is the butcher's shop or the freezing works. It is surprising to tind that out of 2d,000,000 sheep in the Dominion, at least 2,000,000 die annually, So far, the ablest of our scientists have failed to* complete a remedy for the internal parasitic infestation of sheep.” Jn these words, Mr. L. T. Daniell, a member of the Wellington Lana Board, prefaced his address at tr.c Eotary Club in Masterton to-day on mortality amongst the hoggets. He stated that during the last two or three months, the death rate from parasitic infestation in the Dominion hud been at least 50,000 per week. Methods of collecting pastoral statistics were confused and haphazard and it was not easy to compute a national stock sheet without a margin of error,, but by taking a ton years’ period, he found that about 2.1,000,000 sheep were unaccounted for, an average of over 20.000. per year, of which at least 1.000. were hoggets. This regrettable drain on the economicat life blood occurred year after year and it was high time that the best brains in the Dominion were organised to assist farmers in what was at present a losing fight. Mr. Daniel suggested that a board: should bo constructed to investigate the trouble, consisting, say, of a veterinarian, dietist, agristologist and 'soil, analyst.