This charming picture was photographed recently at Coonong, the sheep station on which the late Sir Samuel McCaughey made merino history. It is a beautiful property, situated just on the fringe of that great rai[?]less stretch of pastoral country that lies between the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers towards the south-western corner of New South Wales. The season there has been unusually bountiful, and to-day the vast plains, except for their extend are move like English park lands than the sun-scorched. wind-swept regions they really are in average seasons. On this particular station there are more trees than usual, many of them, as the picture shows, being deciduous, and thus making the comparison with England all the mere striking. But the sheep and the atmosphere otherwise are as un-English as they could be. The merino ewes and their lambs have just been brought in to be shorn. They ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 20 Aug 1924, Page 12
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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