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if attempted, in the first instance, upon one flock only, I think it might, by degrees perhaps, be extended, and that it would be found to require no increase of manual labour, except what would be requisite to make into Hay, a portion of the grass, which is now wasted. Thus, by storing up the superabundance of one season, against the deficiency of another, we should be enabled to keep a larger number of Sheep, upon the same extent of land, and we should increase the quantity of our Wool, at the same time that we improved its quality.

Whether such a modified adoption of the Saxon System, be practicable in New South Wales, at least, for some years to come, is exceedingly doubtful, but before I had seen the Saxon Flocks, I

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