TRACE ELEMENTS IN RELATION TO ANIMAL HEALTH IN SOUTHLAND

Abstract

In the "New Zealand Meat Producer" for May 1960 R. H. Bcvin discusses the remarkable development of the sheep industry in Southland. As he puts it, "40 years ago there were roughly 1 t million sheep in the Southland Land District. Today there are 53 million". He goes on to trace the change from a farm economy-which-in-l~9~~~d~pendcd~ largelym oat crops and dairying to one which is now predominantly concerned with the production of fat lambs for export. The Southland-Wallace Plain carries one of the greatest sheep concentrations in the world. Lambs killed at the four Southland freezing works each year now top the 3 million mark