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Show H Makes it Better for American Sheepmen. H ""Bradstreet'fl says: "Ilecent reports H piuke it appear that the outlook for the H fsheep-raising industty in Australia, H towing to the prolonged famishiugdrouth, H fiias never been so gloomy as now. Mil. H jjions of sheep have perished this season H Jfld from "Western Australia, Victoria H smd New South Wales the reports are H disheartening. The feed has been dry H anil-dead so long and the water has be- H 'con-e so nearly exhausted and eo poor H that stock ' is being rapidly decimated H Jhousands of men are being employed H In the various districts cutting the H boughs of tho apple, the oak and other H trees for food for the starving sheep, and H .in skinning the animals that perish in H hejnud at the failing water holes. The H .lambing season has come, and since B -'"fc'rlicro is no fresh, wliolefonio food to B aiouylali bleeding owes they are too weak HB io furnish mi'k, and the lambs are B cither killed by the owners to save tho H rnothQr' dives or allowed to die with B (hem.4' |