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LAMBING SEASON
POSITION IN THE MIDLANDS.
NEED OF EARLY RAIN. .
. (From Our Midlands Reporter.)
OATLANDS, October 3.
Although there were light showers
over the Midlands during the week-end,
the prospects for the lambing season
aro not considered bright by many of
the leading pastoralists. The past
autumn and winter were characterised
by a lack of rain, and, tho winter being
especially cold, tended to retard the
growth of crops and greenstuff. As a
result, there has been a serious short-
age of food for the ewes and lambs, and,
¡(although there have been Intermittent
rains during the last week or so, they
were not heavy enough to materially re-
lieve the situation.
From inquiries made, it would seem
that the dry conditions are much more
noticeable in the northern Midlands than
Is the case around the Oatlands dis-
trict. One pastorallst who has a big
estate near Campbell Town, when asked
the other day as to how he was faring,
said that the ewes, unless they could
get artificial feed were falling away,
and it was a difficult job to keep the
lambs alive. Dry sheep were holding
their own, but if heavy rains were not
experienced soon, the prospects for the
season would certainly be unpropitious.
"If we could only get rain almoat im-
mediately," said one farmer near Oat-
lands, "it would bo a godsend. As far
as I am concerned, and irom what I
have heard, the lambs in this district
are in good condition at present, and
there is a promise of good percentages.
It has boen a healthy season for sheep,
and mine, up till quite lately, looked
better than any I have owned during the
last 10 years."
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