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For the first time in years, the farmer The Jones has something to smile after a wave of generosity saved his hungry sheep crowd from a certain death.
The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that the farmer NSW this month fired his 1200 merino sheep and the lambs then bury them in a mbad grave on his barren farm.
Skeletal sheep are not strong enough to send to the market but Mr. Jones could not afford to feed them, making mbad shooting the only option.
Jones' farm seems to have succumbed to the driest 14-month drought since records began in 1900, until a flood of donations overturned the steam in a few hours Sunday morning.
Aussie Helpers founder, Brian Egan, said the phone was ringing to readers.
"Our donations have gone crazy and they will no longer have to shoot sheep.We will have three barley road trains for farmers in Goolhi within 10 days" Mr. Egan said.
The Jones' wife, Laura, was stuck on the phone on Sunday, receiving calls from strangers with offers of help.
"I cried a thousand tears of joy this morning, I would have flooded our barren farm," says Mrs. Jones.
"I do not remember the last time I felt so upset and so humiliated."
"I wish the government and the big banks to intervene before the public comes to our aid . "
Mrs. Jones' Christmas wish was to create new carpets at her home, to replace the old, poorly soiled soils with the abandoned lambs that the family had left alive to stay alive
de Bale was inundated with enough donations to fund a worker bee to renovate Jones' farm
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Charles Alder, founder of Rural Aid, spent two hours in discuss with Ms. Jones. "We are going to organize this week for the gray nomads to do some work to give the family a break from the daily routine and after Christmas we will have a crew to give the house a mini-makeover," said M Alder
Last week, Rural Aid purchased 5,000 fodder bales for distribution to more than 550 NSW farmers. Fodder, such as sugarcane mulch and grbad rhodes, will be distributed in 113 truckloads.
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