MORTALITY AMONG LAMBS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4228, 27 September 1892, Page 2

MORTALITY AMONG LAMBS.

Sheep-owners have been much exercised over the losses they have liHd to put up with year after year in their flocks. Some of the finest and most healthy-looking lambs have died without any apparent cause, and the loss line been estimated at about 5 per cent. It would seem that only the strongest and best-looking in the 1 flock are attaoked, and up to the present there appears to be great ignorance as to the oause, and therefore rio remedy. Wo (Greytown Standard) havojußt had a chat with Mr T. Kempton, of Moroa, and be says he has mado a discovery which is new to him and which will probably account for the mortality among the lambs, Tho other day he, by chance, took the kidney of a lamb just killed and cut it through. To bis surprise he found it completely rotten. OutBide tho fat was all that could be wished,. and the appearance of the kidney was healthy enough, but inwardly it was rotten and shrank to a very small compass when pressed together. The discovery led him to try another sick lamb and the result was the same. The kidney was abnormally large, looked healthy, but was in the same condition inwardly. Many sheep farmers have attributed the mortality to airballs in the stoub acb, but this has not been a satisfactory conclusion, Mr Kempton saye he has noticed that after docking, the lambs thrive better; but ho is at a loss to know why this should be so. Wo should like sheepfarmera throughout the valley to give us tbeir views on this matter, so that it may be fully discussed and inquired into. If Mr Kempton's discovery has anything to do with the death of lambs, tho remedy must le sought