APPENDIX 



bEMAKKS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HHEKP IN 

 AUSTRALIA. 



As the preceding pages were not written so much for 

 the well-educated farmer, as for those who practise 

 sheep-husbandry without previous training, it may not 

 be considered amiss, consistently with the plan of the 

 work, to sum up the chief points to be attended to in 

 the management of sheep in Australia. This I shall do 

 from the best authorities, and guided by the direct ad- 

 vice of extensive sheep proprietors who have long re- 

 sided there, and had every experience in the subject. 



Though it was for some time, according to Dr Lang,* 

 a matter of controversy in the colony, whether the 

 Merino or the Saxon Merino produced the finer wool 

 or was more profitable for the sheep-farmer ; the pre- 

 ference is now given to the Saxon breed, as they not 

 only yield an excellent fleece, but are much superior in 

 carcass to the pure Merino. The fact, however, of 

 Australia having been considered, from its earliest 

 2olonization, as unrivalled by any country in the quality 

 of its wool, goes far to prove that, with ordinary care, 

 almost any variety may be brought to yield a very 



• HUtory of New South Wales, Vol, i. p. 309. 

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