FIRST CENTURY OF DAIRYING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



In i Si i we have the names of Messrs. Charles Throsby, sen., Blax- 

 land Bros., Hawaii i',r<., McDougall Bros., Henry Cox, John Nichols, 

 Richard Brooks, William Howe, George Johnston, S. Bradley, Andrew 

 Thompson, Ebenezer Bunker, Robert Campbell, and Dr. White added 

 to the list of breeders of stud cattle. In the years prior to this it was 

 customary for the Governors to issue a proclamation each year for a 

 general muster of cattle to be held at various periods of the year in 

 tlie several localities where Government breeding stations were estab- 

 li>hed under the charge of the superintendent of stock. It would ap- 

 pear that a system of cattle stealing was going on from the Govetrn- 

 ment herds. This was discovered, and Governor Macquarie in 1811 

 issued orders that all the cattle in the colony be mustered and counted 

 on the same day, so that the cattle inspected at, say, No. I station 

 could not be driven over to No. 3 station and inspected and counted 

 a few days later. The writer leases the reader to form his own con- 

 clusions. 



In 1813 an important sale of cattle took place at me Sydney mar- 

 kets by Mr. Bevan on account of Mr. Bayley. Primrose, a Red Lin- 

 coln cow, with calf at foot and in calf by Mr. Blaxland's Durham bull, 

 brought 80. The dam of this cow was imported here by Colonel 

 Foveaux. Jenny, a purebred Lincoln cow, whose granddam was 

 " Scott," imported by Capt-iin Scott, of H.M.S. Porpoise, with a 

 female calfa t foot and in calf by Mr. Blaxland's Durham bull, brought 

 60. "Tib," a Longhorned Durham, with bull calf at foot and in 

 calf to Mr. Blaxland's Durham bull, mrought 90. " Magpie," a 

 granddaughter of the famous " Magpie," by Connolly's Friesian bull, 

 with bull calf at foot and in calf to Mr. Blaxland's Durham bull, 50. 

 " Cherry Longsides," a purebred Longhorn, bred by Captain John 

 Macarthur, together with two Longhorned cows bred by Mr. James 

 Badgery, and all in calf to Mr. Badgery's bull, brought 140. " Rasp- 

 berry," out of old " Daisy," dam of " Scott," with a young bull at 

 foot and in calf to Mr. Blackland's Durham bull, 70 ; a two-year-old 

 bull from the stock of the late Captain Kent (Devon), 50. The 

 mixed bred cattle brought from 30 to 60 each. 



In 1814 Messrs. W. H. Hovell, John Oxley, (Mrs.) Jenkins, Smith 

 Bros., John Piper, John Dixon, Andrew Byrne, became noted cattle 

 breeders, and Sir John Jamison arrived back from England with a 

 consignment of Devon and Hereford cattle for his Regentville Estate. 



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