GOOD LAMBING ON EAST COAST
LITTLE EFFECT FROM FACIAL ECZEMA
Despite the incidence of facial eczema during the autumn percentages of lambing in the Gisborne and East Coast districts are surprisingly high, according to official estimates. But for this disease lambing would have been a record in the country. Excellent returns are shown, counterbalancing the poor, percentages on the flats, where figures as low as 48, 44 and 40 are recorded in some big flocks.' In the Cook and Uawa counties returns are considerably better than in the last facial eczema year, 1935, while in the other three counties returns are only slightly lower, while the average taken over the whole district would probably be a little better, for many of the ewes are still lambing. This is the result of the facial eczema epidemic delaying mating during the autumn.
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Southland Times, Issue 23682, 3 December 1938, Page 19
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140GOOD LAMBING ON EAST COAST Southland Times, Issue 23682, 3 December 1938, Page 19
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