Carious Statistics of Colonial Live Stock. 6 :^ 



energies of her emigrating children for the behoof of the 

 mother country and her industrial classes. 



New South Wales produces at present (1858) above 

 17,000,000 lbs. of wool, the whole of Australia about 

 50,000,000. The number of sheep has increased from 29, 

 imported by the first colonists in 1778,* to 8,139,160 in New 

 South Wales alone, the total for all Australia being about 

 15,000,000. Some proprietors have upwards of 100,000 

 sheep, which they divide into flocks of from 2000 to 3000, 

 which are in charge each of its respective shepherd, who 

 keeps them in their own special " runs." 



The most suitable place for breeding sheep is Moreton 

 Bay, lately raised into a new independent colony by the 

 name of Queen's Land. The sheep there need but little 

 attention, and the maladies to which they are subject in the 

 west and south never occur in that colony. Were it not for the 



* We present an official account of the live stock in the settlement at Port Jack- 

 son, May 1st, 1788, which forms an interesting contrast with the development of its 

 resources since that period : 



At present there are in this colony, 180,000 horses, 2,148,660 cattle, and 109,160 

 pigs. 



