SHEEP BURIED FOR 33 AND 41 DAYS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 48, 20 November 1917, Page 8

SHEEP BURIED FOR 33 AND 41 DAYS

The Scotsman' <-f Juno last .stales thai a snowstorm of unusual violence which set in suddenly on January 7 .' buried many sheep .under snow in the ... Border district. Some remarkable in- ., cidents are recorded, particularly on tha ... farm of Nether Cassock, in the parish' of Eskdalemuir, tenanted by Mr. Glen- , dinning. Two Cheviot ewes have been . extricated after being under the snoy for thirty-three days, and one was taken' out . after forty-one days' imprisonment. All three slieep after their liberation walked . a distance of two miles down the glen . to join the rest of the hirsel, and are . novr on the hill with many others, and .. do not appear to have suffered muoh from their privations. Commenting on the above, Mr. George Campbell, of . Puketoro Station, Waipiro Bay, states 'that in the winter -of '82, -which was ex- .. ceptionally severe, ho had been looking . over the extensive Kheeprun of Glencannich, in Inverness-shire. then tenanted by the late Mr. Duncan Robertson, of Comar. ' His dog found two different lota of sheep -which had been buried under the snow for forty-eight days, and although -weak all pulled through. This, Mr. Campbell remarked, demonstrates clearly the sound constitution cf the Cheviot sheep, -which many people would hardly credit.