A FARMER'S TROUBLES IN THE SOUTH. TRYING EXPERIENCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 12 December 1912, Page 7

A FARMER'S TROUBLES IN THE SOUTH. TRYING EXPERIENCE.

An Oreti Plains farmer recently related to a Southland "Times" (reporter some expediences farmers in thiat distriot had htad to undergo during the: Lambing season. On on© particular w«it and stormy Sunday one farmer during the day kept a horse and tdinay travelling between the paddocks" and hafl stable carting in ewes wdtih their newlyborn iLamiba. When -the laonibe had' niot been, removed quickly enough to prevent them from being jchi'Hedj the Mariner plunged them into a iwaran bath, and lafterwardß rufbhed them rwdth a> rough cloth. He cLaim-ed that by doing this he saved the lives of 75 per cent, of ; the lambs that were dropped on that particular day. An employee of a farmer, wihoe© sheep were Jamibing in a paddock where thero were several oM stacks, [whenever he saw a ewe drop a lamb, took cun armful of hiay, Md it on the ground', and placed the lamib on top of it. This employee icHaims (that ibyl placing the hay beifcween the lambs and the cold -wet -ground, he saved t!he majority of thoir lives that day.