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A very unusual experience befell Messrs K. Pratt and G. C. Hamilton while out boar hunting at Bushy Park during a recent week-end (says the Southland Times). The dogs were sent out to round up a boar, which had caused considerable destruction among the early lambs, and they eventually' bailed it up in the bush near a creek. The sportsmen followed and took up a position on a bank just above where the boar had been located. One held the undergrowth aside while the other had a shot at a boar a few yards away. Considerable commotion followed the report of the gun, but on looking down both men wero surprised to find the boar still standing there. Another shot followed and the boar disappeared. On going down to investigate the sportsmen wero further astonished to find that instead of one, there were two fully-grown boars lying side by side. The first shot had not missed after all.

'Get rid of that cough or cold quickly —use “NAZOL.” Powerful and penetrating. Brings quick relief. Price, 1/6. * Dealing with the subject of spring mortality in lambs, which has been prevalent for somo years throughout the Dominion, an Otago farmer asserts that the main trouble arises from a bad method of wintering the breeding ewes. Paddocking sheep, cooping them up year after year in small enclosures, is, he says, unnatural, and is bringing many serious troubles in its train. Do farmers seriously think that a few inches of soil can go on year in arid year out growing foodstuff for stock containing the necessary minerals they require to keep them in health! ho asks, and goes on to say: Top-dressing is doing much to Temedy this state" of affairs, but until the whole question is thoroughly understood and appreciated by the men on the land the more serious it will become. There are certain districts in the North Island where sheep have been running for many years that have become so foul that the death rate of lambs or hoggets put on such land is enormous.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 6

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Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 6

Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 6