FARMING AT ALFORD FOREST
(By Albert Harmer, 12 years) Most of the farming that is carried on in Alford Forest is sheep and dairying. I like both these ways of making a living. First of all I will try to explain the sheep farming of our district. Round the back of our little district are the mountains —Mount Somers, Mount Winterslow, Mount Alfred, Pudding Hill, and Mount Hutt. These places are all sheep runs. My granddad owns a portion of Mount Alfred. I often go with him and his men to muster his sheep from the back. The lambs are born in October, in December the sheep are mustered and the lambs are tailed, and about three weeks later the ewes are shorn. They are then all turned back on the back country. In March the ' sheep are mustered again and dipped, the lambs and cull ewes are sold —these are old and poor ewes, and the remainder turned back -out. The next time they are mustered is in June; they are then crutched, eye-clipped, - and sent down country to be wintered. Altogether I think it is very interesting work.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22767, 20 July 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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