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... sheep to the butchers , but should make a point of sending three or four hundred sheep out of every thousand sent to Sydney for sale , to be boiled down , and by pursuing this course they will keep up the price of sheep , and add ...
... sheep to the butchers , but should make a point of sending three or four hundred sheep out of every thousand sent to Sydney for sale , to be boiled down , and by pursuing this course they will keep up the price of sheep , and add ...
Page 488
... SHEEP Some of the hazards of wool - growing in the 1850s and 1860s were the spread of rabbits , Scotch thistles and the Bathurst burr , but the worst was scab in sheep , caused by a parasitical insect . ( In later years the word ' scab ...
... SHEEP Some of the hazards of wool - growing in the 1850s and 1860s were the spread of rabbits , Scotch thistles and the Bathurst burr , but the worst was scab in sheep , caused by a parasitical insect . ( In later years the word ' scab ...
Page 489
... sheep and upwards . ... the rate of augmentation in sheep in Victoria has of late years very much declined from what it once was . Thus there were in Victoria in 1846 1850 1863 2,996,992 sheep 6,032,783 7,974 , 198 " " وو so that in the ...
... sheep and upwards . ... the rate of augmentation in sheep in Victoria has of late years very much declined from what it once was . Thus there were in Victoria in 1846 1850 1863 2,996,992 sheep 6,032,783 7,974 , 198 " " وو so that in the ...
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