Golden Mouth Sheep

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 79, 2 January 1892, Page 3

Golden Mouth Sheep

IThe : sh ; eep 6i WesterniAustralia "^are thus dealtvwdth\by : ft correspondenjE in the Argus :— " The , majority Ic&iybut readers krel^imiliar ! -with the ancient story of 'the search for tife golden fleece;" in conse'qUeriiejB 1 of thecwealth associated ,w.iththt pro- ' duotioniiof r; wool asfits staple product. Thed inauguration of a new- ■ era : in : sheep-bTeeding, admitting of startling developments^ . in .' which f out; friends will possibly figure as direct: pEodncerrf of /nna]]oyed : gold] appears to have da\vned on that vast region of sands, gold, and droughts, &c, rejoic-inj^jn'its-pretensions as 'the < corning colony.' The following^ partrculftTS of the latest development of its resources, ftfr %he * acfcttracy of : vfhich" : I : can vouch, may ■ ! be '"' interesting^ : to some of your readers. ,A remq.rkabll^fißSvery' wafe recently !accidentalfomade atKceemantle^.consisting of rf^poriioh u 6f J x sheep's jaw, theVtSaißr of " which. ,are encrusted >ith p^itpa aaher^J^'the^rfer.' |Tie head ha|J r been purchased ,^for so v up from a locaT-btttciier \fj l &mts Kurr, -who rents premises-occupied .as a boarding house. The landlord chanced tß'dflßj^tfsif ainke^ Snft'^topari tatinff%f ! £nes^p ) n'6^ced:theuni^ual lea;,)fas&'&mg ■":]«<? jinto i Perth, where it -Avas submitted to a ctfrefal iexiinjinatibn: by: Mr- Bmgay, the MM denW, 1 Md^ther^eiperts, who after'^pjrog^ mtric"l&ftd other usual test^ 4wP satisfied that the r marve^ens r/ißerus, tation of pure sola on' the tartar 1 of i;he teeth is mlg&ttU of ftan> «year^n^nfor-tunatelyTtn'er^a*6f"<>Hly>-^e of the molars, intact in, ar portipn'. '<ff { ,the~lower jaw, *)wrb^ detacnied^^ molars all] similarly coa^dl^heL incisors being] missing. The"-usuaiVlgngth of some of j the. tttsksjowhi^h gnhding surfaces thinly?giii^ i whilst others are the animal waa probably la or 15 yeMW% «iis r na^\lOTt ?r nearlj;^ll^ts| teeth.^lt^is'supp^seii' td'-haVe come! ' from the Murchison district, and the? teeth fii the jaw ; of^one bf f the .|amej flofek, a^much younger animal, arealsoj sKghteft gildedj the^conslant rricfaonj of the tongue 5 ' having 4 btfrnwned/ thej gold on the inner surface of the front;