VL MILK TESTING.. .. ..259 



VII. TUBERCULOSIS .. .. 263 



VII!. ABORTION IN COWS 270 



IX. BLACKLEG .. ..274 



X ON SELECTION 276 



XL PRACTICAL HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN FROM 



MODERN WRITERS 277 



XII FIFTY DAIRY RULES .. 283 



XIII. A FEW PRACTICAL HINTS TO CREAM RAISERS 287 



XIV. CHEESE MAKING 289 



XV PIG RAISING .. 293 



XVI. THE HORSE ..300 



XVII. ON SOrLS 305 



XVIIIL ON THE SILO .. .. 309 



CONCLUDING REMARKS .. .. 315 



APPENDIX .. 319 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Frontispiece. 



Cow, Fussy II. (Hugh Dudgeon, owner) .. .. .. .. 16 



Cape of Good Hope Cattle 19 



Devonshire Bull imported by Lieutenant Kent in 1800 . . . . 22 



Typical Longhorned Cow. The Celebrated Dairy Cow " Beach" 25 



Some Early Pioneers (H. Osborne, C. Throsby, H. Badgery, 



W. Jenkins, C. McAlister, J. Robb) .. .-33 



Australian Stockman of Early Days . . . . . . 37 



Typical Illawarra Dairy Cow .. .. .. .. 37 



Another Group of Pioneers (G. Grey, J. Colley, N. Craig, J. 



Black, H. Fredricks, W. Grey) .. .-45 



Hardy Illawarra Pioneers (W. Moles, J. McGill, J. Russell, 



W. James, J. Dunster, H. Bartlett) 51 



Sturdy Illawarra Settlers (S. Marks, J. Hanrahan, C. 



McCaffrey, E. Larkin, II. Dudgeon, G. Wood) .. 55 



Well-known South Coast Men (J. Brown, Evan Evans, A. 



Campbell, I. Lindsay, F. O'Donnell, W. Musgrave) .. .. 59 



Illawarra Men of Mark (W. Lovegrove, D. Hyam, J. Wilson, 



D. Boyd, T. Brown, J. Love) .... ..63 



Four Splendid Types of Pioneers (W. Coman, J. Grant F. 



McMahon, T.'Cork) 65 



<iroui> of Leading Be^a Settlers ( J . Farrah-r, J. Collins, J. 



Keyi; R. Ritchie, W. Allan. W. Rix.-n) 69 



Prominent Men in the Seventies and Eighties (M. Hindmarsh, 



J. Miller, G. Tate, J. Sharpe, D. Dymock. S. Grey) .. 73 



1' '.miiuT.t South Coast Public Men, Past and Present (A. Berry, 

 T. S. Mort. Captain Charles, J. Marks, Sir John Hay, Sir 

 Joseph CarrutlurO .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 79 



