Overview
Tues. Sept. 28.
Rode up to North Block to prepare for docking my
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lambs. Fired fern on northern end of 100 acre p[addock] east fence-line. Worked at benched track (upper terrace) leading down from main Leighton p[addock] gate. Found a good red steer (of the £3.7.0 lot) poisoned by tutu + salted it with salt borrowed from Tress. After dinner (at 2.30) started mustering ewes + lambs off Leighton p. getting them down to Ram p. at 6.15 after dark. Found a 2-tooth ewe dead on Leighton's Spur + east b[oun]d[ar]y fence alongside "1st burn" smashed by a tree uprooting + tossing fence into air. Found another steer dead in gully between Middle + Trunk Spurs, bogged or tutued, (one of £2.4.0 lot, the red brindle). A disastrous day.
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