Volume 71: Macarthur family papers relating to wool and sheep, 1820-1936: No. 192

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  lowest down the stream has nothing in it worthy of remark. No 2 is entirely slabbed over at the bottom to prevent the feet of the sheep from touching the sand, and provided with a covering of thatch on broughs overhead raised upon forked poles about 6 or 7 feet from the flooring, so as to exclude the suns rays completely. No 3 is kept well littered down with clean straw, a fresh covering being laid on every morning over the old.
C Has large boilers or "Tripots" each capable of containing 80 gallons.
DD Two large strong tubs of oval shape about 4 ft 6 inches long 3 ft wide and two feet deep each capable of containing 2 wethers of three ewes.
EE Boarded platforms (one in each of the pens Nos 1 & 2) from which the sheep are thrown into the river.
F washing pen. - a portion of the bed of the River enclosed by hurdles & stakes, and preserved at the requisite depths by removing

 

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