FIRST CENTURY OF DAIRYING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



3. In 1823 Cnptuin Currie, R.X., discovered the plains of Monaro, 

 variously >.i>i-lt Mam-roo. Menaroo. and Moncroo. It was originally 

 named the Brisbane Downs by Captain Currie, but finally received the 

 name given it by the natives Moneroo. 



1824. The Australian Stock Importation Company's ship Greencck 

 arrived in Sydney with a valuable cargo and a consignment of four- 

 year-old cows and two-year-old bulls of the pure Ayrshire milk breed, 

 Mr. Alexander Warren in charge of the stock. This cofnpany was 

 established with a capital of 100,000 in connection with the Xew 

 South Wales Agricultural Society. They owned two ships, the 

 Greenock, Captain Richmond (for Xew South Wales), and the Triton, 

 Captain Crear (for Tasmania"). Their respective tonnage was .1.42 and 

 404 tons to be engaged in conveying passengers, goods, and stock 

 between Leith and Australia, Mr. Robert Brown manager at Leith. 



Imported into this colony by Captain Watson, a fine bull and cow oi 

 the Xormanby breed. This bull and cow were the means o.i laving 

 the foundation of Mr. Alexander Macleay's herd, afterwards estab- 

 lished at Brownlow Hill, Camden. The Australian Agricultural Com- 

 pany having been formed in England with a ranital of 1.000.000. and 

 having received a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land at Port Stephens, 

 had just appointed the following representatives as a committee to re- 

 present the company in New South Wales : Rev. Archdeacon Scott, 

 Captain P. P. King, R.N., Me&srs. James Macarthur, Hannibal Mac- 

 arthur, Dr. Brownson, Lord Bathurst. The instructions to Mr. Com- 

 missioner Bigge was that in issuing future land grants better regula- 

 tions should be adopted to protect the settlers bv encouraeiner. rather 

 than compelling, them to work the land by giving it them at a quit 

 rental. 



1825. In 1825 there were landed in the colony the thoroughbred 

 stallion " Steeltrap." Steeltrap is represented as being a dark-brown 

 chestnut, 16 hands high. Also four bulls and seven cows from Scot- 

 land. The sale of the cattle imported in the Greenock is reported as 

 follows : One heifer to J. T. Campbell for 25, one heifer to same 

 buyer 41, one heifer to same buyer 53, one heifer to John Dickson 

 36, one heifer to John Dickson 48, one heifer to J. T. Campbell 

 for 63, one heifer to D'Arcy Wentworth 50, one heifer to John 

 Dickson for 53, one bull to Sir John Jamison 85, one bull to Mr. 

 John Dickson for 107. The Australian Agricultural Company's ship 

 The Brothers arrived at Port Stephens with a large shipment of stud 

 horned cattle. In this and subsequent shipments of stock by this 

 company were many of the best Durham and Argyleshire breeds. The 

 company, however, made a great blunder in appointing agents in 

 the colony to purchase stock for the estate. In consequence a large 

 number of crossbred buffaloes were selected in the colony at high 

 prices, and sent up to Port Stephens. In a few years afterwards an 

 inquiry was instituted, and some of the New South Wales directors 

 were cen-ured. It is not necessary to give names under the circum- 

 stances. 



-Mr. Andrew Allan, of Sydney, established a cattle station at 



i he l-'ivc Islands, and appointed Connor Woolaghan as overseer. The 



-h:p \\ illiam Shand landed three Durham heifers and one bull, and 



rive Devonshire heifers and one bull in Sydney. A four-year-old cow 



with a tour ironths' <!(! calf of the Yorkshire Shorthorn breed is 



ffercd for Bale in Sydney. The auctioneer. Mr. Atkinson. 



OW was carefully selected in Kngland from a herd <>f 



to Mr. Rhodes. This row has givm Mich an 



abundance of milk during the vovage as to make her a valuable ac- 

 quisition for dairy purposes, ard a like opportunity of landholders 

 suoplying themselves with two Mich fine choice animals of this truly 

 valuable breed may not Boon occur. The Mclntyre family (twenty- 

 Sevetl in Dumber) landed in the e.>l<.ny to take charge of the Honor- 



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