GOOD LAMBING RESULT
BEST TOTAL FOR WAR YEARS The estimated percentage of lambing for the 1944 season, based upon reports from inspectors of stock throughout the Dominion, was 1)1.79 per cent, the highest in the hist, six years. The figure compares with 88.00 per cent hist, vear iiiid ill.4:1 per cent in I!)I2, the previous best result in the six-year period. The North Island percentage was 90.08. against, 87.18 in the previous vear. and the South Island figure was 91.07, compared with 89.16, and easily the best result during the past six years. Applying these percentages to the number of breeding ewes in the respective islands as at April 00, 1914, they provide a total estimate of 18,863,00:4 lambs for the Dominion. This total comprises 10.576,495 in the North Island and 8,286,568 in flic South Island, compared with the numbers tailed respectively last year of 10.057.876 and 7.7,'M.0G0.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25084, 23 December 1944, Page 5
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