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Photograph from Boston Photo News Co. 

 PREPARING TO "DRAFT" A FXOCK OF SHEEP: NEW SOUTH WALES 



Drafting sheep is the process of separating them. They are driven into the drafting 

 yard, from which leads a runway wide enough for one sheep, with two pens at the end and 

 a gate. By turning this gate to one side or the other the drafter is able to send a sheep into 

 the one pen or the other. Each ewe has a right-ear mark and each wether has a left-ear 

 mark. Expert drafters can work two and even three gates at a time, separating the sheep 

 into three and even four pens and classes. 



tracking. Some parts of the city are flat ; 

 in others the streets lead up and down 

 steep little hills. There is no division into 

 business and residential sections, or into 

 "new part" and "old part," or "rich part" 

 and "poor part." The soft buff-colored 

 sandstone, so largely used in construc- 

 tion, gives a pleasing impression of age 

 even to buildings recently constructed. It 

 may be that the attractive informality of 

 the life of the metropolis is a reflection 

 of the city, or both may have resulted 

 from the mild and fluctuating climate. 



A KINDLY FATE 



The surprising beauty and spaciousness 

 of the harbor of Sydney, Port Jackson, 

 its "deep water fingers stretching miles 

 up between wooded banks," have often 

 been described, but its commercial value 

 is not so widely known. Fate never 



served an explorer a better turn than 

 when it directed Captain Cook's course 

 to the entrance of Sydney Bay, for it 

 is the one place along a thousand miles 

 of coast where access to the interior is 

 easy. 



In natural advantages it surpasses any 

 harbor of the North American coast. 

 The entrance is a channel one mile wide 

 and 90 feet deep, walled by perpendicular 

 cliffs of sandstone. Inside The Heads is 

 an expanse of deep water covering sev- 

 eral square miles and extending with 

 slight decrease in depth along many miles 

 of shore. Danger at the entrance, shifting 

 sand-bars, shelving bottom, strong cur- 

 rents, and rough seas stirred up by winds 

 are all lacking. In 1913 the total ship- 

 ping business amounted to over 9,000,000 

 tons, a figure exceeded in the United 

 Kingdom only by London, Liverpool, 



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