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DISTRICT OF NEW ENGLAND.

SHEEP FARMING AND AGRICULTURE IN NEW ENGLAND

Sheep farming and all the opirations of the Agriculturalost have Succeeded in the district. Crops of wheat, Barley, and other grain have never Known to fail, a plentiful Supply of rain falls during every Season & ensures a regularity of Crops. Popatoes from the Derwent Seed equal to any in the English Markets.      Sheep farmers have been more fortunate in this district than any other beyond the boundaries in New South wales, during the early occupation Catarrh was in Some instances Severe, owing to the removal of Sheep from Warm Climates to this elevated land, but it has lately been found that by removing the Sheep to the Sea Coast in Clarence district, where the Climate is warmer, & where there is a fresh Spring of  grass, a Cure of this disease has been effected in a Short time.

In New England, the runs of the Sheep farmers are large, affording every facility to Cure diseased Sheep which have been removed from the Confined estates in the low Country, & this without mixing with other flocks, or injuring the run.

LIVE STOCK

Returns from the Comissioners 1st January 1847 for the following districts

                                       Number of   Number of horned   Number of

                                         Horses               Cattle                 Sheep

District of New England      1635               57,000               570.000

District of Clarence             1340               34.942               179.561

District of Liverpool plains   3300             205:287              350.000   

Dustrict of Moreton Bay        685               17.157               218.622  

District of Darling Downs      577               20.055               317.958

                 Macleay River      775              17.996                   1.980

                  Welllington        1184               55.980               220.423

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