LOSS OF MILLION
COST OF FACIAL ECZEMA EPIDEMIC TOLL IN WAIKATO DISTRICT 109,000 BREEDING EWES KILLED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, May 16. It is estimated by competent authorities that close on £1,000,009 has been lost by Waikato farmers through the facial eczema epidemic. This huge sum takes into account not only direct losses by death or stock, but also the limited income that will be the result next season through lower lambing and calving percentages.
It is pointed out that "100,000 breeding ewes which died or have been killed because of the disease represent a loss of some £200,000, and reduced lambing next season will mean an approximate loss of another £200,000. Farmers have been compelled to sell fat sheep at 75 per cent of their value, and this loss is estimated to reach £lOO,OOO. To these losses must be added haulage and killing charges for infected sheep. These figures account only for the fat lamb trade, but it is considered that when the losses that will be incurred through smaller wool cheques, butterfat cheques and through the death and infection of dairy cows, with consequent loss of calves, are taken into account, the total loss will be approximately £1,000,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1938, Page 3
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