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Show KEEPING 8HEEP IN AUSTRALIA. Artificial Feeding of Flocks Cost Breeders a Large Sum. Tho artificial feeding of sheep In nn Australian drouth, according to tho Country (Jcntlcman, has almost as-sumod as-sumod the dignity of a fino art. In many a squatter's run tho stock aro dopondont on what Is given them, nnd the most approved ration appears to be half a pound of wheat and half a pound of hay per day fed In tho forenoon. fore-noon. If possible, with a little scrub for them in tho afternoon for them to munch over. Tho distribution Is done from spring carts, tho grain being shoveled out, ovor as wldo an area as possible. Tho animals pick it up, llko poultry In a yard, tho stuff being always al-ways sproad on hard ground, as it fs rojectod. If mixed with the soil. Abundance Abund-ance of" rock salt Is strewn about tho paddocks, and wntor is also artificially supplied, whero other has failed. As to. cost, that Is somothlng liko twelvo cents n week, which soon mounts up whero scores of thousands go to constitute con-stitute a single flock. |