FIRST CENTURY OF DAIRYING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



come under review. The fortunes of individual families among: th-* 

 many who made their homes in Illawarra, the offshoots of which 

 went forth into the \\in.Lrecarribee, Twofold Hay, and Richmond 

 River districts in the -i.xties and seventies, are made, in a later 

 .uenerati- n. the measure of the example and teachings o'f tho-e 

 sturdy pioneers of the late thirties and early forties. 



Let it not be supposed, however, after what has just been said, 

 that in attributing so much importance to the courage and indus- 

 trious habits of those settlers under review that the triumphs of 

 dairying and cattle breeding were abandoned to their forces alone. 

 without that co-operation of men with land and capital which the 

 times a::d circumstances required. Such names as Captain John 

 Macarthur, Messrs. W. C. Wentvvorth, Henry Osborne, David 

 Johnston, John Terry Hughes, John Ritchie, James Robb, Jam* 10 - 

 Mackie Grey, David Berry, John Havvdon, Thomas S. Mort, and the 

 brothers Imlay, Drs. George and Alexander and Mr. Peter Imlay. 

 shall long be remembered as being men of sterling worth. Later 

 on. when new men stepped into their place, the changes and de- 

 velopments became so numerous that it is a thing impossible to 

 record in one volume, such as this, anything like the number <^ c 

 events that occurred which had in on? form or other an influence 

 on the dairying industry. 



Although much has been chronicled of the happenings of the 

 settlers of the counties of Camden and St. Vincent prior to and dur- 

 ing the years 1840-45, there will be at all times room left for the 

 recorder, as each station holder had, as it were, his own settlement, 

 not necessarily, nevertheless often, independent of his nearest neigh- 

 bours. The settler's station was his kingdom, which he ruled or 

 governed as he pleased, and on which he carried out, weather per- 

 mitting, whatever plans or schemes happened to be uppermost in 

 his mind during his lifetime. This does not infer that there was 

 not boundless hospitality in those days among the settlers. It merely 

 is intended to show that each man had his own pet system of work- 

 ing out his own destiny. 



As has been shown elsewhere, there were several importers of cattle 

 and the smaller settlers were not slow to take advantage of good 

 sorts when and where offered for sale or barter at the general market 

 prices. 



It was about 1846 that Mr. John Terry Hughes leased "Duke," a 

 strawberry Durham, from Mr. Henry Osborne. Mr. John Terry 

 Hughes had, of course, other breeds of cattle as well as Durhams, 

 including a very large percentage of the Longhorns imported and 

 bred -for years at Camden by Captain John Macarthur. These animals 

 when crossed with the Durham could not be more easily described 

 than by calling them strawberry and yellow brindled bailies. Messrs. 

 Lomax and Osborne. as has been already stated, had the Red Lin- 

 coins. It was, therefore, from stock bred by Messrs. Henry Osborne, 

 John Terry Hughes, Macarthur. and Lomax, all of whom imported 

 direct from the old country, that the celebrated herds of Mes>rs. 

 Duncan I'.eaNon. Kvan Evans, Andnw McGill, William Moles, and' 

 other-. -prun.u up in the early fifties 



To show the influence of Red Lincoln^. Mr. Kvan Kvans had a 

 L-iinax bull in the late fifties which he called " \V>nsuch." which with 

 -onie heifer- lie -nit down to his station near UlladuHr., namou 

 Murremurang. From there the progeny of thi- red bull got into the 

 JSion of many ,.f the ehiei cattle breeders of Ulladulla. The 

 progeny of this bull could be traced for years as far south as Mr. 

 Robert Ritchie's herd <>n the Jellat Jellat Hats at I'ega. Heifer- from 

 Murremurang by this bull were brought up the coast by Mr. Kva:i 



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