PART IV. 



THE WEST AUSTRALIAN SETTLER'S GUIDE 

 AND FARMER'S HANDBOOK. 



SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



BY "BRUXI" (GEO. A. BROWN) OF THE "AUSTRALASIAN." 



WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE SETTLER'S GUIDE: 



has been happily named " The Land 

 of the Golden Fleece," for since the first British 

 pioneers landed on these shores, the wealth of 

 the colonists has mainly consisted in their flocks 

 of sheep. The future shows the promise of a 

 still further development of this great industry, 

 and we may confidently look forward to a not far distant time, 

 when every portion of our island-continent will be beneficially 

 occupied by the bearers of the golden fleece. With a land covering 

 such a large extent of the world's surface, there is a great diversity 

 of climate, aspect and pasture, and it naturally follows that each 

 division of the country will require a different type of sheep to 

 thoroughly develop its resources. The art of the husbandman will 

 be employed in developing these varying types of sheep, and the 

 more successfully this is done, the more profitable will the industry 

 prove. It is the business of the husbandman to closely watch the 

 tendency of the flock towards any new development of type, and, 

 where such divergence from the general are beneficial, to make use 

 of them. 



