RUGGING SHEEP
EFFECT ON WOOL VALUES
A striking illustration of the benefit of the practice of rugging sheep was provided at the recent Timaru wool sale. Last autumn the owner of a Merino flock rugged-250 hoggets as an experiment, being influenced by the accounts of the success attending the practice in Australia, to which a good deal of publicity was given a year or two ago. The remainder of his hoggets he left unrugged. At the wool sale the wool from the rugged hoggets, sold at 15.1 d, per lb and the remainder of his hogget wool from the unrugged at 10 : ;d, a difference of 4Jd.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 15
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107RUGGING SHEEP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 15
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