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Show Hard on the Sheep. Reports come in from the west desert this week to the effect that the weather there has been very severe. It has been stormy and cold and the result has been that losses of sheep have been numerous. numer-ous. These reports have been persistent, per-sistent, and as they have been received re-ceived from different parts of the desert, it is probable that the losses have been heavy. The sheep lie down in the snow and are frozen there and die before they can be released. The feed is covered by a crusted snow also which places them at a disadvantage. Mount Pleasant Pyramid. |