INCREASED FLOCKS
GOOD LAMBING SEASON FIGURES FOB THE WANGANUI DISTRICT. The lambing season just concluded in the Wanganui district has been an exceptionally good one, the percentages being higher than last year. An estimate taken right through the district from the Rangitikei river to the Patea river, and back behind Raetihi, places the. percentage at 86, but of course the figures arc over 100 on pome of lower undulating lands along the coast. This estimate is that of the actual percentage of docked lambs from ewes that were put to the ram, and is not made, as is often the practice, by counting the ewes at docking time. In the back country the percentage has been between 60 and 70 to every 100 ewes, the losses by wild pigs having been very slight. Settlers state that the reason for this is that lII* pigs have kept well back in the bush, where there has been a plentiful supply of berries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19983, 28 October 1927, Page 6
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160INCREASED FLOCKS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19983, 28 October 1927, Page 6
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