JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.
Mr J- Bennett, of Winchester, has fifty-four aged ewes whose progeny this season number eighty-two, or over Iw per cent. Tho ewes and lambs haye been grazed for the last two months on twenty-two acres of laud.
For the past few days the weather in the Glentunnel district has been very wintry. There Las been a very cold south-west wind blowing, and heavy showers have fallen during the nights. The- ranges have received a thick coatin" of snow, which reaches almost to the base. Should the present cold weather continue, there is likely to be a heavy mortality among the newly-shorn sheop.
At a meeting of the General Committee of tho Tomuka and Geraldine A. and P. Association, tho schedule for the Annual Show was revised and several additions made. It was resolved that all grain .and grasses shown must havo been grown since the last Show. It was agreed that all " rpilk cattle should be judged in the open ring, and two additional classes were added to the Shorthorn and Jersey heifer section. A sub-committee was elected to deal with tho erection of a produce shed. The following donations and special prizes wore received with thanks : —Messrs James Guild £2 2s. P. Talbot £1 ls, G. Cartwright £1 Is. S. Cain £1 ls, W. C. Barrett £1, A. Russell 10s 6d, G. Hcarn 10s Od.
A few days ago Hr J. W. Miller, of Rangitata Island, brought a mob of ewes, lambs, and eight rams into his yards to draft for shearing. He noticed •that one of the rams looked peculiar about tho eyes, aud on catching it, found that its face was swollen and it was nearly blind. The wool on the ram's back was moving in a peculiar way, and on parting tho wool Mr Miller was surprised to see file tail of some small animal under tho wool. On looking further, he found a half-grown stoat deeply embedded under the fleece, and «ome force had to'be used to extricate tho animal. When the ram was shorn next day it was discovered that tho stoat had commenced to eat the wool off the ram's back. Whether the stoat was the cause it Ls impossible to say," but after being shorn, the ram went totally blind, its face came out in sores, and its e-irs went quite stiff, with tbe result that the animal had to be destroyed.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14840, 4 December 1913, Page 10
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