Excerpt from Sheep, Farm and Station Management
OR many years there has been a demand in sheep-raising F countries for a book that will serve as a guide, philosopher and friend to the man engaged in producing two of the world’s staple commodities, wool and meat, and with a view to satisfying the demand I have attempted, in the narrow confines of this volume, to furnish advice on the many questions with which the sheep man is faced in the course of his work.
It should be understood that what is written is primarily for the assistance of the beginner although it is hoped that even the man with years of practical experience will find in the following pages some hints or helpful suggestions that were previously outside his knowledge. I have been particularly fortunate in compiling this work in having at my disposal the columns of The Pastoral Review, a publication which, as its name implies, -is devoted to the furtherance of the grazing and farming industries, and whose pages are replete with articles on every conceivable phase of sheep husbandry, written not by professional journalists, but by men who have been through the mill, and whose contributions are based on knowledge acquired during long and practical experience. It is this knowledge that I have endeavoured to put together in con densed and consecutive form, covering the whole field from the taking up of an unimproved block of country and dealing with every phase of station and farm management including construction of improvements choice of breed of sheep - with description of each a brief discussion on wool, every regular operation on a sheep property, such as mating, lambing, marking, classing, shearing, dipping, etc., the diseases of sheep and their treatment, and so on.
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