Mortality Among Turnip-fed Sheep. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,— l notice th your paper a good deal on this subject. One man states in your last issue that he goes to the trouble of pulling the turnips and washing them in a trough. I don't believe in all this bunkum. I have wintered as a rule some 2000 to 3000 lambs and wethers with very little loss. Any -deaths that have occurred have been from choking or apoplexy — the former from a piece of turnip, and the latter from overplus of fat inwardly (it being usually a very fine sheep that succumbs). Haifa dozen deaths would covet the winter's turnipiog. I have always hoed all the shells of turnips up after eating close, and as a rule they are clogged with earth, whioh dispels the idea that' sheep die from eating earth with the turDips. Bring your eheop forward that they may be in a fit state for the change of turnip-feeding; Don't let them 'eat the last snap of your fastdecaying .pasture* before you decide that your winter's stpnd-by must be operated upon, or the result will be a steady skinning match all winter, and then you can study and surmise as much as you like,' but you will find that the mortality occurs as I have stated.— lam, <£c, ' 0. A. P.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2207, 18 June 1896, Page 7
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223Mortality Among Turnip-fed Sheep. TO THE EDITOR. Otago Witness, Issue 2207, 18 June 1896, Page 7
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