Traveling Sheep

Traveling sheep are of the institutions of Australia. In d pastoral country like it is there must ot' neeessity always be numbers of stock changing hands; thHS cattle and sheep may move aluiost every day, passing f rom one station to another. By lavv sheep are compelled to travel six miles per day, cattle nine miles, horses twenty. Sheep are of ten nif-t with traveling f or "f eed," hat is, the owners thereof, haviag overstocked their runs, and the grass 'ailing, they send a large mass of sheep" off to some imaginary buyer, some hundreds of miles off, choosing of course the route by which they will piek up the most grass. Af ter sauntering along for a month or two, perhaps the rain has come, and there being now plenty of grass the sheep are brought home by a roundabout way. Sheep of that style are known as "loafers," because the drivera try to go as short a distance as possible each