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BURNETT AND WIDE BAY DISTRICT.

from thirty to thirty five pounds when £35 was paid the flock would count out fifteen hundred & watchmen were paid with twenty four pounds per annum'
Where shearing commenced in the latter end of October this year in the district of New England washers were paid six shillings a day & shearers were paid four shillings a score.
NUMBER OF SHEPHERDS WATCHMEN & OTHERS REQUIRED FOR 12 OR 13,000 SHEEP

During the early years of the occupation of the Northern interior the calculation made on the large well conducted sheep establishments where the proprietor looks for proper returns & increase to his flocks - That for two flocks of sheep one man with half the labour of another
man, that is three men for two flocks of sheep numbering say from 1,600 to 1.800 exclusive of men carrying rations (extra men being required on particular occasions such as lambing season
[indecipherable] or say from between 12 & 13,000 sheep. Thirty men were required, and that for this number of sheep forty thousand acres were required to be occupied by each station say three & a quarter acres for each sheep.  A calculation is made in Darling Downs
 where the stations are free of scrub & the grazing on downs or plains, that for every fifteen thousand sheep only seven shepherds & two watchmen are required.
For the same number of sheep in New England where the runs are scrub, and left open a calculation is made that fourteen shepherds and seven watchmen are required.

NUMBER OF BALES OF WOOL FROM 13,OOO SHEEP AVERAGING 2½ POUNDS EACH

The clip of thirteen thousand sheep averaging two pounds and a half each will pack one hundred & thirty bales of fleece wool, & five bales of locks, table wool, & clipping the bales weighing each two hundred & forty pounds. The wool from the sheep in the Wide Bay portion of Burnett district is fine & has been reduced to one pound and a half for each sheep.

 

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