Volume 71: Macarthur family papers relating to wool and sheep, 1820-1936: No. 186
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Observations on the preparation of wool by William Macarthur, Watermark 1828
effected by Carful Management; that is, by preventing Ewe sheep, as much as possible, from depasturing on leaves and in brushy places, & by folding them every night upon a fresh stop well clothed & with long grass. But so long as our native pastures continue to be encumbered with brambles & underwood; with dead standing trees, and falling logs or branches, having their surfaces more or less charred by the fires, which unfortunately, for several years past, have been so increasingly prevalent; and above all, so long as these fires continue occasionally to rage in situations abounding with the native application (frequently the finest tracks of sheep pastures) it would be