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Show THE DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. American sheepmen can scarcely realise rea-lise tho cutreniltlCK to wliith their brethren in Australia me dilien, hut the following cxIiiiiIh fiom a letter In lhe Ainerliuu Sheep llreeder will (,vc some idea of Ihe situation it Is mil in b, upecled thai the ensuing ensu-ing wool i lip of Sen Hiulli Wnlt-s and Queeiialand wjll lr ample evltletac of the sevoiin of lhe MiiHtiuH In width the have l.iu grnnn The wool niiisl unferlunale-I) unferlunale-I) lcilr ami tendrr and nlll cnrr an un-lisual un-lisual niiioiint or iluat Seed burr and nllitr vigtiuble iniiiur nlll be more nev-ulent nev-ulent than Is ususlly the case We are still waiting for n good downfall of rnln Inn It nenns to l- fir off ns ivr In the meiiiillme our tmslorallsls are ItuhllnR lianl agnlnst "King Draught but are getting ! I.K.llj the worst ot lhe encounter Heruli culling and arlinelal ffollng nre still going on In full snlng and linforluiiHlrlj so are the ver heav losses of sheep We have had inanv droUHlils hi the history of thl Hlnle but even tlw "oldest Inhabitant" cannot call to mind aim i seveie, protracted nnd general In Its fell results It will give vou ii ver fair Hen of what things are like In mine purls of ihe Stale whin I tell jou thai on aoiue pheep runs the ptotk ar,' In m h poor tomllilon thai the oumrs do not t.insUli'r them nt for human cntipiimption and art Importing fram the metropolis tlnne.1 meats lo tied their mi n on |