FOWLS KILLED BY HEAT.
LOSSES IN AUSTRALIA. Many poultry farmers throughout Central Cumberland districts in New South Wales lost heavily recently. Many thousands of their poultry died from the heat. A moderate estimate of the hens killed in tho district between Campbelltown, Penrith, Hornsby, Parramatta and Bankstown is 25,000.
At Epping one breeder lost 800 hens, and in other districts scores of farmers report heavy losses. Scores of farmers hosed their fowls at intervals throughout two days in order to revive them. In those areas where there is no permanent water supply the farmers suffered the heaviest losses, but the districts which were ringed with bush fires were also heavy losers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20172, 5 February 1929, Page 9
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111FOWLS KILLED BY HEAT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20172, 5 February 1929, Page 9
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