SHEEP AND LAMB LOSSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 15 July 1936, Page 4

SHEEP AND LAMB LOSSES.

FOLLOW FAILURE TO CONSERVE FODDER. “This season has supplied numeious concrete examples of the fallacy of expecting continuity of supplies of the requisite quality from farms carrying stock unless fodder reserves are available for supplementary and sustenance feeding. Losses of both sheep and lambs have been reported, particularly where hand-feeding could not be practised.” This position (says the Sydney Morning Herald) leads Mr L. Judd, senior agricultural instructor, to maintain that better business methods are needed in the stock-raising industry, especially so in relation to the provision of adequate fodder reserves. .Pre-sent-day problems, ho states, in a resent report, from which the above quoted paragraph was obtained, made the scrapping of previous viewpoints on this subject imperative if the industry was to make uninterrupted progress. The value of fodder cropping had been plainly demonstrated this season, and even meagre supplies of green fodder had proved extremely valuable. Established improved pastures had also been of great value. Pastures generally were getting bare, and hand-feeding had been regularly resorted to where reserves had been available.