DROUGHT AND LAMBING.
NEW SOUTH WALES FAILURE. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, Aug. 28. The autumn and -winter lambing seasons proved largely a failure over the greater part 'of the State, owing to the drought. In the autumn six and a-half million ewes were mated, but they dropped only 4,120,000 lambs, representing 63 per cent., while the survivals for marking numbered only 47 per cent. In tie winter 4,973,000 ewes mated dropped 2,948,000 lambs, and tha probabla marking*, wife be 2,W,(XXK J
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17251, 29 August 1919, Page 7
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81DROUGHT AND LAMBING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17251, 29 August 1919, Page 7
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