HAWKE’S BAY. SHEEP INSPECTOR'S REPORT.
The'report of ithe Inspector of Sheep for Hawke’s Bay is published In the Herald of the 23rd inst,, a* follows;
Sir,—l haver the honor to furnish my report for the current year, and enclose for publication sheep returns :ot Ist May, 1877, which show a very satisfactory increase of 102,489 over those; of the previous year. The enclosed returns comprise 713,600 ewes, 648,216 wethers, and 14,311 .rams,. being a total of 1,376,157 sheep, over'six months old, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, on Ist May, 1877, as against 674,413 *ewe«, 588,543. wethers, and 18,706 rams, or a total of; 1,273,668 in May, 1876 ; and I expect the’returns of this month will reach one and a’ half million sheep in this district at the present time. , Since the date of my last report no sheep have been introduced •verland to Hawke's Bay; and with the exception of three cargoes of merino ewes, numbering 4089, the imports, have been limited as usual to sheep for stud purposes, and comprise, in addition to the above, 481 longwool rams,' 222 long-wool ewes, 254 merino rams, and 444 merino ewes ; making a total of 5400 sheep during the past twelve months. The exports during the same period coastwise and overland to neighboring provincial districts amount to abont 78,000, and about 200,000 have. been. absorbed by provincial consumption and boiling-down. The lambing of last'year was quite.up to the average, and the clip the best. I have known.’ The large outlay in fepcing, and surface-sowing of English grass** is year by year producing the most satisfactory 'results, not only in the increased carrying'capacity of the lands su treated, but in the sucerior class of sheep now
carried ; for, whilst our sheep have been doubled during the past ton years, the export of wool has been nearly quadrupled; and, so long os these improvements continue, and the cutting up of large runs becomes more general, there is no reason tor apprehend any diminution in| the animal increase of. sheep, or export of wool and tullo\v r .from this district.. I have again the satisfaction of reporting all the flocks still free from scab ; and although the Akitio station is now la possession of a clean certificate, I r cannot recommend a discontinuance of thb maintenance of the double line of protectiveionciug at the southern boundary, or relaxation of the vigilant watch kept by the boundary shepherd. To the Commissioner of Crown Lauds, Napier.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5360, 1 June 1878, Page 2 (Supplement)
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411HAWKE’S BAY. SHEEP INSPECTOR'S REPORT. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5360, 1 June 1878, Page 2 (Supplement)
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