LAMBING PERCENTAGE
NORTH AUCKLAND ESTIMATE [from our own cokrkspondkntJ WHANGAREI, Friday An estimate of the lambing percentage in North Auckland this season reveals that the figure is disappointingly low. The main reason is the'a Iter eflect of the outbreak of facial eczema last autumn. The average normal lambing percentage is estimated at from approximated 80 per cent to 00 per cent, but this season the average is down to between •">() per cent and 00 per cent. Some farmers state that a number of ewes are still suffering from tho results of facial eczema and their lambs are weakly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 22
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98LAMBING PERCENTAGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 22
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