Volume 71: Macarthur family papers relating to wool and sheep, 1820-1936: No. 185

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of the pastures upon which the Sheep are fed; and those which may be attributed to a defective mode of washing, and the existence of proposed cure in the subsequent operations.

I shall in the first instance address to the former.

A fertile source  of objection is derived from the innumerable grass seeds, particles of dead leaves & sticks, but more particularly, from the minute portions of charred wood and barks with which the fleeces abound, especially in dry Seasons.

In the present circumstances of the Colony, and with our limited command of labour, it would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to entirely obocate this class of objections. Impossible instructions much may doubtless be
 

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