A First Year In Canterbury Settlement By Samuel Butler


















































































































 -   For the edification of
some of my readers as ignorant as I am myself upon ovine matters, I may
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For The Edification Of Some Of My Readers As Ignorant As I Am Myself Upon Ovine Matters, I May Mention That The Above Teeth Are To Be Looked For In The Lower Jaw And Not The Upper, The Front Portion Of Which Is Toothless.

The ewes, then, being one year old to start with, they will be eight years old at the end of seven years.

I have only, however, given you so long a term that you may see what would be the result of putting out sheep on terms either for three, four, five, six, or seven years, according as you like. Sheep at eight years old will be in their old age: they will live nine or ten years - sometimes more, but an eight-year-old sheep would be what is called a broken-mouthed creature; that is to say, it would have lost some of its teeth from old age, and would generally be found to crawl along at the tail end of the mob; so that of the 2582 sheep returned to me, 500 would be very old, 200 would be seven years old, 200 six years old. All these would pass as old sheep, and not fetch very much; one might get about 15s. a head for the lot all round. Perhaps, however, you might sell the 200 six years old with the younger ones. Not to overestimate, count these 700 old sheep as worth nothing at all, and consider that I have 1800 sheep in prime order, reckoning the lambs as sheep (a weaned lamb being worth nearly as much as a full- grown sheep). Suppose these sheep to have gone down in value from 25s. a head to 10s., and at the end of my term I realise 900 pounds.

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