PASTURE FOR SHEEP.
Sheep are not at all suited for being kept on rich low-lying lands, especially wiiere such lands are not thoroughly drained. In clamp, low-lying districts sheep are subject to quite a variety of ailments and disorders which are practically unknown where flocks are kept on high-lying, dry pastures. Liver-rot, for inptance, has its home in lowland districts where the drainage is indifferent, and, in the sprne way, foolrot is always much more prevalent in such localities than on high-lying lands where the ground is naturally less damp. On upland pastures where the herbage is none too plentiful, and where the- sheep are obliged to roam long distances in Search of their .food, their hoofs are naturally kept well worn ; on the low-lying, damp lands, on the other hand, the hoof? have a teudency to become soft anil overgrown, with the result that they split up into clofts or crevices, into which dirt of all kmcb cntei*. nnd Urn- forms a hot-bed for the development oi tlie <jc;ir,." which cr>L-e foos*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2414, 14 June 1900, Page 7
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173PASTURE FOR SHEEP. Otago Witness, Issue 2414, 14 June 1900, Page 7
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