SHEEP DESTROYED.
A day or two ago a farmer in tbe neighbourhood of Timam turned a floclc of some three hundred sheep into 'a olover paddock, in which there was a large quantity of sorrel. Eighteen hours after the sheep-had been placed in «the field, the owner visited the flock, and found to his vexation and astonishraent no leas than forty of the number lying dead, and some fourscore or so of the others in extremis. By diut of bleeding seventy of the latter were saved. Eating of the sorrel is supposed to have been the cause of deathBut we should doubt it, as we never heard of sorrel being deadly to sheep, and suspect the clover as 'being the .cause oi the. mischief, knowing of cases where sheep being turned into a rich clover paid the death penalty, being "hoved" by over-eating the rich' succulent food. Sorrel or clover, it is a fit subject for a paper to the Pastoral Assosiation, ana if one was well written it would prove interesting and ' useful 'to thy 0 ? a farmer and ' grazier in the ■district. '"— Tiavaru Herald.
At' a, temperance picnic down the harbour, recently, one of the musiuiausjdrank so much gingerbeer, that whtfU'; he gtft brnne to Woollooraooloo he dhiooyered that be had lost the big <<2ruai. ' ■"' '•-'/■
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 179, 30 November 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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