Overstocking Pastures.

Southland Times, Issue 18059, 31 January 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

Overstocking Pastures.

Many flockhiasters uiake the mistake of keeping . too many sheep pn their land, with the result that " ihe animals' are starved '-.'when the ; Weather is severe

and the grass :is short, in the late spring and early summer; It would-be very muchf better' fpr euch men to keep a smaller number ot sheep and to have them- well.' "; : ). done than to.- attempt to

maintain, large ■■■':. flocks for which they cannot provide more than two-thirds or three-fourths of the grass required to Tseep tbem in iinpro-viiijj condition. Several such cases have recently come under our notice. The past spring with its cold weather and backward growth has, of course, been an exception, but even in ordinary seasons it is not at all unusual to find fanners transgressiug in the direction indicated. lt is a bad practice— bad for tho sheep, bad for the land, and necessarily bad for tho

owner,