2l0 ON And o'f'f the TDRf. 



of 960 square miles, or, in other words, 582,000 acres. 

 The run extends for a distance of forty-five miles from 

 end to end, and has a frontage of a hundred miles to 

 the Darling River. The farthest distance out back is 

 twenty-nine miles. 



The homestead, known as Winbar, is on the river 

 bank, twenty-three miles from the upper boundary, 

 and consequently about the centre of the frontage. 



The shearing- shed is seventeen miles farther down 

 the river, at the out-station called Campadore, within 

 five miles of the lower boundary. At this out-station 

 there is a collection of buildings consisting of over- 

 seer's cottage, stores, and various huts, also wool-shed 

 and wool-scouring plant. A brief account of a wool- 

 shed may not prove uninteresting to your readers. 



The wool-shed is a building 130ft. long, built of a 

 Colonial pine framework on piles two and a-half feet 

 from the ground, and is closed in with galvanized 

 corrugated iron. The floor is of gum-boards (two 

 inches) placed one inch apart. At the southern end 

 of the shed a space, 40ft. by 45ft., is set apart as a 

 sweating-pen. This is where the sheep are kept from 

 exposure to the weather, and prior to being put into 

 the shearing-pens. At the northern end of the shed 

 a space, 15ft. by 45ft., is set apart for the wool-tables 

 and wool-bins, at the former of which five wool sorters 

 stand and divide the fleeces into various classes of 

 wool; viz. : — 1st and 2nd combing; 1st, 2nd and 3rd 



