SHEEP COUNTRY DRY
HAND-FEEDING OF STOCK Sydney, April 7. Rain is urgently needed in practically every sheep district in New South Wales. Hand feeding is proceeding on many properties. In some areas of the far western and north-western plains the country is completely denuded of pasture. In some of the inner country, also, feed is very .scarce, and hay. grain, and manufactured fodders arc being purchased for the stock. Maize, a particularly valuable sheep food, is very difficult to obtain. These conditions are against the production of a bulky, soundly-grown clip for next season. The late summershorn wools offered at March appraisements were examples of the ill-effects of the dry season, being short in length, unusually fine in fibre, carrying a large amount of dust, and giving growers much lighter fleeces per sheep.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 April 1944, Page 6
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133SHEEP COUNTRY DRY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 April 1944, Page 6
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