Overview
Sat Mar 15
Uncle Bert dipped 129 sheep before breakfast. McKenzie brought sheep but a storm drove up from south + he took them home again. Jim + I put cyclone fence across Little
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Meadow cutting off about 3 acres of rape + moved the 216 lambs from near 42 on to it. Mustered the “med” + “old” ewes + put out the rams = 6 Shrop. rams to 250 “old” ewes + 3 Border Leicester + 3 S. Down in 71 “med” ewes (this lot is to be added to). (We had to transfer 74 6-tooth ewes from “med” lot to “old” lot to make up number of latter.) In evening developed the last 10 of the 82 plates exposed on Napier-Taupo trip. Total results as follows : – 2 total failures; 1 duplicate; 2 second rate + 77 good + excellent.