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NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Market Prices of Sheep — Stores Delivered on Station. 



Diseases in oue Live Stock. 



Looking at otlier parts of tlie -world we can say that tlie live stock 

 of tlie Colony are comparatively free from infectious or contagious 

 disease. Happily such deadly and costly ailments as glanders^ farcy, 

 rabies, rinderpest, slieep pox, and foot and moutli disease have never 

 obtained a footing among our stock. Stringent measures are adopted 

 by us in conjunction with the other Australasian Colonies to prevent 

 the introduction of such diseases : An effective code of regulations has 

 been agreed to which is strictly carried out and no stock are introduced 

 from places outside the Colonies except in terms of these regulations, 

 which, among other things, provide that no cattle or sheep can be 

 introduced into Australasia which have not come from Great Britain 

 or L-eland, and then only when accompanied by certificates that they 

 had been repeatedly inspected previous to shipment. On arrival they 

 are inspected and have to undergo sixty days quarantine before being 

 allowed to land. 



Horses. — Our young horses at times suffer from strangles, but usually 

 of a mild type. In country which is subject to inundations, or where 

 the ground is wet and unsound, the horses at times become infested with 

 parasites which bring on what is known as Australian stringhalt, and 

 also — it is believed — the blindness which attacks them when running 

 on inundated country in some of the hottest portions of the Colony. 

 There have been, too, epizootic outbreaks of influenza, but they occurred 

 at considerable intervals. We have also occasional deaths in horses 

 from anthrax, and a troublesome horse mange affects the horses in the 

 northern portions of the coastal division. 



