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of wedder lambs and rams, would form the fourth flock:—

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Next year there would be about 5,850 sheep on the station, allowing 100 wedders for consumption, and 50 sheep of all kinds for casualties. We will suppose, however, that there are 6,000 sheep, for the sake of round numbers. They might be disposed of as follows:—

3,000 breeding ewes, 3 flocks; 1,500 lambs, 1 flock; 1,000 wedders, and 500 wedder lambs, 1 flock: being 5 flocks in all.

1. The prices obtained for wool in the summer sales of 1844 were fully 4d. per lb. more than those of 1843, upon which this calculation is formed, which would of course give a still larger return to the sheep farmer.