GRASS ON SHEEP’S BACKS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 16 (Supplement)

GRASS ON SHEEP’S BACKS

Mr E. C. Dickins, of Castle Hill Farm, Berkhamsted, retiring chairman of the Hertfordshire branch of the National Farmers Union, was recently astonished by a sight he had never seen beforegrass growing on the backs of his sheep, . This is not a new dispensation of Nature to enable the flocks.to be self-sup-porting, but a result of the abnormal rains and humid wither. The seeds had apparently got Into their fleece when the sheep rubbed themselves against the haystacks. j The growth varied from one to two inches in length. Though only unusual weather can produce this phenomenqn in the southern countries, it is not so rare in the mild, damp climate of Cumberland and the West Coast of Scotland. i ■