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flow goes into a similar tank to the south corrals, and in turn 

 into a bucket hung in the well. The bucket when full shuts 



off the mill, and when it empt 



es through a hole in the bottom, 



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the mill goes to work again 



CO RR ALS. 



From two to three thousand 



sheep can be wintered here, and within that range our flock now 

 numbers. Their shepherd is J. C. Smart, and well-named he is. 

 His sheex3 education was acquired in South Africa, where 

 he was for six years under the tuition of English sheep grow- 

 ers. Returning to England, the hard times there caused him 

 to come back to America for new and broader fields of opera- 

 tion. He will do well, and thousands more like him should 

 follow. 



GRAIN IS FED TO THE SHEEP 



in troughs made of three fence planks fourteen feet long. In 



