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Excerpt from An Epitome for the Million: Fifty Facts About Australasia
The wool-shearing season is the season of the greatest business activity in Australasia. It is the great harvest when the patient expectations of profit for the shepherd kings are beginning to be realised. The harvest begins about July, according to the climatic conditions of the various localities north, south, east, and west in the continent. Shearing continues with unabated ardour to employ an army of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
