BREEDING EWES.
The Department of Agriculture lias prepared a return of tlio total breeding ewes in the Dominion, and the estimated percentage of lambs for the 1912-13 season, in regard to stud sheep the return estimates the percentage of lambs in the Auckland, Nelson West Coast, district as 5)5, and the percentage in the Marlborough Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, Kaikoura a«d the Otago districts as 101. The totals under tho heading of "stud" in the North Island are: Lincoln, 28,403; Romney, 64,984; Border Leicester, 3936; English Leicester, 4546; Shropshire, 2133; Southdown, 7681; other breeds, 15,409. Under the heading of "Flock" the estimated percentage of lambs is 93 in the North and 90 in the South. The -.North Island total, is given as 6,277,381 crossbreds and other longwools not studs, while the South Island total is 693,661 merinos and 5,091,877 erossbreds and other longwools not studs, giving a grand total* for New Zealand of 11,369,248.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 30 November 1912, Page 4
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153BREEDING EWES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 30 November 1912, Page 4
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