CURRENT YEAR’S LAMBING
ESTIMATE FOR THE DOMINION (From Our Pabuamkhxart Reporter.) WELLINGTON, December 14. An estimate of the current year’s lambing for the Dominion, prepared by the Department of Agriculture, ehowa that' 17.209.000 breeding ewes are expected to produce 15,457,000 lambs; giving a percentage of 89.82. In the North Island 9.318.000 ewes are estimated to give a percentage of 91.23 which is higher than, any percentage recorded during -the last six years. In the South Island 7,890,000 ewes are estimated to have a percentage of 88.14 of lambs, which is a fraction less than last year. The whole Dominion average is 1 per cent, higher than last year and higher than it has been in any of the last six years. Taking the figures according to. the six districts into which the Dominion is divided much the highest yield is estimated to come from the WellingtonrWest Coast area. There a percentage of 95.26 is expected to come from 3,591,000; ewes. In Auckland the percentage is 88.71 from 1.783.000 ewes, and in Canterbury-Kai-koura 85.97 from 3,396,000 ewes. i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22137, 15 December 1933, Page 8
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