BREEDERS’ ALLEGATION
HANDLING OF STUD SHEEP. (Per United Press Association). BLENHEIM, June 8. The Marlborough A. and P. Association meeting to-day resolved to send a strong protest to the Stock Department against the treatment accorded a recent consignment of stud Merino ewes, imported from South Australia by Marlborough breeders. Mr E. A. Wild, a prominent breeder, placed the facts before the Association, which showed that the sheep had been seriously affected through immersion in a strong, harsh sheep dip on arrival at Dunedin. Individual sheep of the consignment showed traces of maggot fly, and it was contended that they should have been hand-treated with a weak fluid dip. Being fully fleeced, the effect of the immersion was disastrous. The sheep arrived in Marlborough in a deplorable condition, one dying en route, and the others were totally unfit for exhibition purposes year.
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Southland Times, Issue 18963, 9 June 1923, Page 5
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141BREEDERS’ ALLEGATION Southland Times, Issue 18963, 9 June 1923, Page 5
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