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GWYDER DISTRICT.

SHEEP LET BY THE PROPRIETORS ON TERMS

Many of the flock owners in the northern districts have been in the practice of taking sheep on terms. Thus Sheep were let out by the proprietors during the years 1837 to  1846 upon thirds, that is for one third of the wool & one third of the increase in payment for the Shepherding & keep of the Sheep, the party not being accountable for deaths in returning the number st the expiration of the agreement.

The high price given for Sheep during these years induced the owners of Stations in these districts to take up Sheep upon these terms their object being to get increase to their flocks. Fine wool was sold in the English market during these years near about the same price as in 1848. Few of the coarse or Leicester breed of Sheep had been introduced into the flocks, which has since changed the value and quality of New South Wales Wool

In 1839 Sheep were sold for Cash by the flock of a thousand Ewes at from twenty to twenty three shillings a head & wethers at twenty Shillings

Subsequently Sheep were taken upon halves & latterly in 1843 when flock has increased & the embarrasments of the Colony Came on Sheep were sold at from six pence to nine pence a head, at that time Sheep were not taken on Keep at any terms

NEW SYSTEM OF RENTING SHEEP
 

In 1847 a new System of renting Sheep from the proprietors Commenced

The party renting paying a certain sum yearly for the Keep of a thousand sheep. In Some Cases the proprietor giving up charge & retiring to Sydney or elsewhere upon the income of his flocks, this was when a proprietor placed perfect confidence in the management of his flocks with a party or parties to whom he entrusted them. The terms were during that year for a flock of Ewes fifty pounds a thousand, the party renting taking the Sheep from the proprietor & grazing them on his own Station, paying the government [indecipherable] & at the expiration of three or five years return the same number & description of Sheep the wool to be delivered in Sydney. In 1849 Sheep were rented at forty pounds a thousand to run on the station of the party renting, he paying all charges & returning the same number & description of sheep in three years

Diseased Sheep were offered this year at twenty five pounds per thousand

 

 

 

 

 

 

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