WAIRARAPA NOTES.
■MORTALITY AMONGST YOU KG SHEEP. Sheep farmers iu and around Carterton aro complaining of considerable mortality amongst their flocks, especially amongst tlio young sheep, says u Wairu-, rapa paper. The causo has been ascertained to be a red .worm. Ono farmer at Clareville, who sold most of his stud ranis at the recent Master ton l'air, has had the misfortune to have most of his young rams attacked with this worm, and nearly all have succumbed. Asked by a "News" reporter if he could explain the presence of the worm, lie said that the only reason ho could put forth was tho wet weather, ■iii'consequence of which there were considerably more "grubs and flies in tho grass, and tho sheep picked them ,up. Fanners aro busy drenching to save a heavier mortality. The following items aro taken from the "Age":—A Masterton settler is putting down two silos for ensilage this season. This form of winter food for dairy stock is coming largelv into favour. . . . The maize crops in the Masterton district have been a complete failure this year, owing to tho unseasonable weather. ... A Jlasterton settler has sustained heavy loss by tho depredations of deer in his turnip fields.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1413, 13 April 1912, Page 8
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201WAIRARAPA NOTES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1413, 13 April 1912, Page 8
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