Kangaroos In Australia

A curious fact in connection wjth the effect of the progress of civilization comes from Australia. It appears that in the older parts of that country the kangaroo is practicalïy exterminated. Is Victoria the kangaroos formerly outnumbered the aheep in the proportion of two to one, and old shepherds say that it was not an uncommon thing to see the sheep and the kangaroo feeding together upon the pluins, as many as two or three thousand kangaroos frequently accompanyinjif a flock of a thousand sheep. The reduction in the number of kangaroos has materially affected the possibilities of profit on sheep farms, as will be seen from the fact that a "station" which, in 1850, could barely graze five thousand sheep, can now be made to carry f orty thousand without any danger of being overstocked.