Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 177
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DISTRICT OF NEW ENGLAND
THE FLUKE IN SHEEP
This animal which is found in the liner of sheep, is from a quarter to half an inch broad, it is of a dark brown colour, and it is shaped like a flake or flounder fish Whole flocks of sheep, get diseased with this animal by grazing is swamps and undrained country, or on flats partially flooded during part of the Year. The station may be condemned for sheep farming, where fluke appears among the flocks. Cattle also suffer from this animal which is found in the liver after death. Fluke is found in cattle grazing on country abounding with the Indigo plant which grows on range and ridge [indecipherable]
May 1850 SALES OF STOCK IN NEW ENGLAND
Terms Cash One thousand ewes were
purchased from [Cl?] Station in
Beardy Plains for three shillings a
head, these were a particular lot
fine sheep
Terms Cash DECEMBER 5TH 1850
Sale in New England. Six hundred sheep of which were 300 Ewes the remainder wethers and hogets [?] with one hundred and five lambs given in with the wool on these sheep then shearing at 2/7d a head Purchase money £77.10/-
One at £25. one at £16 4 at £15. Three at £12. Two at £10 - and twenty from £3.10 to
£9. Unbroken stock will not sell. The demand for useful horses continued good and prices rather better.