LAMBING ESTIMATES
DOMINION PERCENTAGE HIGHEST ON RECORD. The estimated lambing percentage of the Dominion for the 1949 season of 96.48 is the highest on record. This is an appreciable increase of 3.37 per cent, on the previous highest figure of 93.11 per cent., which was recorded for 1947. The percentage last year was 92.72, reports the “Journal of Agriculture. ’ ’
New records also are established for both the North Island and the South Island. The North Island percentage has risen fr0m”89.43 in 1948 to 94.55 in 1949, an increase of 5.12. The previous best percentage was 92.56 in 1945 which has been exceeded by 1.99 per cent. The South Island figure for 1949 of 98.93 per cent, is '2 per cent, higher than the previous best, 96.93 in 1948. In the Canterbury-Kaikoura district the number of breeding ewes in 1949 was 3,754,192. The estimate-1 percentage of lambs was 99.58 per cent., totalling 3,738,511. There were 129,275 breeding ewes in the Kaikoura district, with an estimated percentage of lambs of 87.5 totalling 113,116.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXX, Issue 10, 6 February 1950, Page 2
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