SHEEP FARMING
SMALL MAN'S OPPORTUNITY. Anyone hankering to become a sheep-farmer in a small way, and at •small cost, had his opportunity at the Blenheim istock sale recently, when old sheep were vtirually given away, the season's low price of 4d being paid for the worst sort of cull weathers (says the Express). There were 85 of them, but no one thought^ them much of a bargain. Anoth'er line to realise a low pricei was a pen of 32 •scraggy ancient and toothless ewes . that went for 6d a head, and will P'l'ollably end their days 'as tucker for dogs and fowls. Although these lines commanded hut little less than their actual value considering the present lack of feed, the sale was a dragging one, and one auctioneer hit the nail rather neatly on the head with a teise comment. As he was offering a pen of full-mo'uthed :Sheep his drover asked "Shall I show a few mouths?" "Don't hother," observed the man on the rail, "if they had gold in their teeth they wouldn't hring 'any more-"
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 451, 8 February 1933, Page 2
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178SHEEP FARMING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 451, 8 February 1933, Page 2
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