THE SHEEP FLY
According to a correspondent of a Sydney paper the Australian sheepgrower is having a serious and anxious time, as the blowfly pest.' is raging. On many holdings the variegated thistles have almost secured possession. In these sheep get scattered about, and are at the mercy of the fly, as it is impossible to muster them. No sheep - teem seouro from this scourge, wethers ->- es well as ewes with only a few- weeks' — wool on, and- lambs of three, or four ". months' growth, are all attacked. ' Crutching has ceased to become efiecr* tire, as tho sheep are blown on the Z back and shoulders. ' Only bv a daily ..' overhaul of the flock can serious loss be prevented.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 8
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119THE SHEEP FLY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 8
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