A CLEAN BILL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2257, 23 May 1881, Page 3

A CLEAN BILL.

While scab is spreading in a portion of the Wellington Provincial District, it is gratifying to learn that it is being stamped out in other and very rough parts of the colony. The “ Marlborough Express ” says : —“ We are informed that the Canterbury side of the Waiau Riper is now perfectly clear from scab, Mr Rutherford's run, Montrose, having received its clean certificate. We also learn that the Lyndon is again clean, and that the country generally is in a very satisfactory condition. Many of those who profess to bo authorities have all along put very little reliance in the results shown by autumn musters, believing that they cannot bo depended upon as the criterion of flocks, as in the case of spring musters. The fact, however, should not be forgotten that the conditions that hold good to-day are not the same as a few years ago, when sheep intermixed indiscriminately and travelled, about in largo mobs. At the present date, in consequence of the enormous amount of fencing done throughout the country, and other improvements, an autumn muster can be little different for the purposes of the sheep department from one earlier in the year.”