LAMBING RETURNS
ESTIMATES FOR 1938. A SUBSTANTIAL DECREASE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Estimates of lambing for the current season were announced last evening by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr, Martin. These show a total of 16,645,165 lambs for the Dominion as compared with an estimate of 17,149,517 lambs for last year, a decrease of 504,352. Poor returns in the North Island were solely responsible for this drop in the figures. The estimated number of lambs for the various sheep districts in that island is 8,600,625, as compared with 9,145,849 last year, a decrease of 545,224 lambs. Estimates for the South Island show an increase of 40,872 lambs more than the figure for 1937. In releasing the figures, the Minister said that the annual lambing estimates had in the past provided a reasonably accurate forecast of the seasonal lambing, but in view of the incidence of the so-called facial eczema this would not be so this year. The estimated number of lambs was based on the number of breeding ewes in each county as at April 30, and, though in the estimated percentage of lambs due allowance had been made for the effects of facial eczema, it had not been possible to make any adjustments for losses of breeding , ewes subsequent to April 30 last, because of the varying duration and severity of the epidemic in different districts. The figures for the Wairarapa are:— Estimated Estimated per cent. number Breeding of of ewes. lambs. lambs. Featherston 317,041 85 269,485 South .
Wairarapa 158,014 87 137,472 Masterton 321,108 80 256,886 Castlepoint .. 95,722 80 76,578 Eketahuna .... 111,426 79 88,027 Mauriceville 42,639 76 32,406 The totals for the Wellington district are 4,127,121; 85.94; 3,547,210.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1938, Page 3
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