Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, During a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior (Classic Reprint)

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Sheep-farmmg - Mode of Depasturing sheep-dislike of Shepherds to their Vocation - Appearance of a Sheep-station - Unsettled Habits of its Inmates - Wages - Laziness induced by the Occupation Shearing - Bush Shearers - Interior of a Woolshed at Shearing-time - Conveyance of Wool to sydneyh-horse and Bullock Drays Life on the Road - Return of the Teams - The Catarrh - Cause of the Disease - A Head-station during the Catarrh - Lambing Time - Management of the Ewes - Other diseases among Sheep - The Scab - causes-mode of Cure - Difficulty of Preventing Contagion Regulations concerning Removal of Diseased Flocks - Foot-rot Sheep the best Stock in the Colony - Advice to Purchasers of Sheep.

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