Outlook for Australian SheepFarmers.
(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, This Day. A well known sheep owner, in a lettei to tbe Press with reference to the shortage of the wool clip, says the present deficiency will be nothing as compared to the present season. The drought killed a large number of sheep, and in many parts half the flock died. Lambing, excepting in a Very few districts, is practically nil so that there is no increase to make up for the deaths, also the preponderance of deaths among breeding ewes, tind there will be very few left to breed' from. Add to these disasters the new Land Tax. Unless great consideration is shown sheep owners the outlook is simply disastrous. He considers tiie combined evils ofthe bad season and the Land Tax must tend to collapse many land holders.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 162, 11 January 1896, Page 3
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138Outlook for Australian Sheep-Farmers. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 162, 11 January 1896, Page 3
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