NOVEL FARMING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 67, 16 February 1939, Page 13

NOVEL FARMING.

BLACK SHEEP PREFERRED. Onu black sheep in a flock is not unusual, but a whole flock of black sheep in which a white one is a misfortune is the novel form of farming by which Mrs Elizabeth Delbruck, of South Africa, earns a living, says a Sydney correspondent. Mrs Delbruck is also an artist and lecturer on art, and is in Sydney with an exhibition of pictures. She will be visiting New Zealand shortly, and is then going I back to her black sheep farm. When her husband died Mrs Delbruek left Germany with only £5, which was all the money she was allowed to take out of the country. Four years ago she was in South Africa and by that time had saved a considerable sum of money. She was advised by a friend to invest the money in black sheep, which arc the only source of astrakhan in the world. She began with 40 high-bred sheep, which was the most she could manage as a good black rarn will realise anything up to £2OOO. The sheep cost an average of £2 each.

Since then, while visiting other countries selling pictures and lecturing on art, Mrs Delbruck has sent all her savings hack to her farm and her flock now consists of 700 black sheep. By the time she has 1000 of them she reckons that if art should prove a white elephant her black sheep will provide her with a Jiving.

It is wise to wear thin rubber gloves when washing silk stockings. It removes the danger of “ladders” from finger-nails and rough bits of skin.