Mortality Amongst Sheep

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 15 September 1892, Page 4

Mortality Amongst Sheep

By all hands New Zealand is acknowledged to be a remarkable healthy country for all Kinds of stock — a country free from epidemics that in other lands often play such havoc with live stock— a country, too, where no serious or lengthy droughts occur to the utter starvation of cattle and flocks of sheep. How is it, then, that the reported mortality among sheep is so comparatively great that every ■year there is a loss of probably 800,000 sheep out of the 16,000,000. the aggregate number in the Colony ? And this loss altogether apart from tbe usual losses that take place during the lambing season. A writer in a Southern journal states, iv fiict. that the average annual mortality amongst sheep throughout the whob colony has been placed as high ha° ten per cent, by men of the widest opportunities of observation. At such a percentage the losses would be far more thnn 800,000. But even at five per cent., which this writer considers well within the mark, the profits of the sheep industry must be seriously curtailed, the country generally suffering to the tune of a good many thousands of pounds annually. Is there no possibility of these losses being largely decreased ? By more careful management of flocks, coukt they not be reduced to a minimum ? Pasturage in many cases might be vastly improved, and more frequent changes of feeding paddocks would be a desideratum. Then, again, during winter months, a more general use of chaff along with turnips or grass would be a decided advantage. Indeed, through the proper management of flocks by the thousands of sheep owners in tbe colony, it is quite certain that tbe losses annually recurring might be greatly reduced. Certainly tbe best medicine known is Bandeb and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza; the relief is in* stantaneous. In serious cases, and ac cidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swelling — no inflammation. Like surprising effects, produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swelling, &c. ; diarrhoea, dy sentry, diseases of the kid-, neys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved avticlc and reiect all others. — Advt