LOW LAMB PERCENTAGES.
lii the opinion of a Hamilton stock authority the average of lambs will be well below last year’s figure, when approximately 9b to 100 per cent, was obtained. Farmers, he said, were now finding that ewes which had shown none of the outward symptoms of the eczema had. suffered inwardly, and, while there were fairly satisfactory results on properties close to Hamilton, the season was poor in < the back country. On farms where the disease was rampant, the results of the lambmg were sometimes disappointing. ’On one property where 1100 ewes are carried, 800 lambs liad been docked at > this time last year, but up to Monday only 100 had been born this season, and only another 100 were expected. On the higher country results were not equal to last year, but the percentage of empty ewes was much higher on the flats, where surprisingly few sheep had come into profit.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 18
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154LOW LAMB PERCENTAGES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 18
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