Volume 71: Macarthur family papers relating to wool and sheep, 1820-1936: No. 184

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[Page 184]

No. 78

With plan of Sheep washing adopted at Camden

Observations upon the various objections waged in England upon the State in which Australian Wool is usually sent to market, together with some account of an improved Mode of washing Sheep practised at Camden.

The State in which the wool of this Colony has hitherto been prepared for the British Market, has been the source of much objection to the buyers in England, and of serious loss to the Grower in Australia. The object of this paper is to enumerate a portion of those objections, and to enquire into the best mode of obiverating them.

For convience sake I shall divide them under two heads; viz. those which arise from the nature

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