Farm Notes Fat Lambs

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43312, 11 April 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

Fat Lambs

jfo****.* i A'{RECORD.: LINE* -V. f 1 8?« h*2» was ; put<,t through rtht ! tjahl6fbtuy Ffozen; Meat Company’j wbrks at Berfast by the well-Jcnowr •. ,-Mib • Aw-' ’The * ri i* out of three-quarter -% DredljeweSj. andwerebredby MrjS Gibb, cf Woodend. ■ For some time were ‘slaughtered the) ; p’astured r on rape and' oats, anc f the’ factory' in-prime condition. : iFhe’lambs were divided ititc . 63 ?twQ '. d 'sc v isspectiyely. The first draft ranged ijr4*rdi^W‘s?33.s7K'4<N&height, thf average' being. ~47,-9..ib#.. .The 'fat /•i <mveraged-:i3.7-. lb r.pef head:- The ii* -seconds drift) of 56 ranged from 34H to 44.8'1b/ the average being 40.5 lb. [ the fat returning 3.2 lb per head v This is believed to constitute a jre *ir’: cordfor the present season, ‘taking •**.d«the ]size of ime' into considera- * . tidfi H>J M"A ;r - ' ■} •~ iM - i: - : j' .'Kf'h Sn t-2 C?> ' I