LAMBING PERCENTAGES.
To the Editor. Sir,—ln your last issue your Matiere correspondent commented upon the low percentage of lambs in this district this year. This, however, is not due to any unsuitability in soil or climate, but rather to the undeveloped stage of the farms. By and by, when farms are more closely subdivided, the breeding ewes can be kept apart from the iluck better at the time when the rams are turned in. As an example of this I may say that by closely "folding"' the ewes in the "tupping" season, I have just docked 106 per cent, of lambs and, calculated upon all the ewes put to the ram, and this percentage would have been higher but for the depredation of hawks and other casualties.—l am, etc., EDWIN MOSS MAN. Niho Niho, November 13th.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 415, 18 November 1911, Page 3
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136LAMBING PERCENTAGES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 415, 18 November 1911, Page 3
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