GRASS GROWING ON SHEEP
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 selfsupporting, but a result of the abnormal rains and humid weather. The seeds had apparently got into their fleece when the sheep rubbed themselves against the haystacks. The growth varied from one to two inches in length. Though only unusual weather can produce this phenomenon in the southern countries, it is not so rare in the mild, damp climate of Cumberland and the West Coast of Scotland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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123GRASS GROWING ON SHEEP Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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