ON BREEDING DAIRY CATTLE. 



was mated by Mr. Faulk with a remarkable red cow which he pur- 

 chased at Sutton Forest. This cow was red in color throughout, good 

 on top, large, well-shaped udder equal to 6olb. of milk per day and 

 resembled the Red Lincoln, a breed produced by mating the Devon 

 and Shorthorn breeds. The result of the cross was a red bull calf 

 called " Sojer Boy," reared on his Yellow Rock farm, and sold' to Mr. 

 Snell, who lived more to the southward on the same range,. Acctord- 

 ing to Mr. Hugh Dudgeon, who about 1881 purchased Sojer Boy, no 

 better bull was ever bred. From Sojer Boy's stock he produced the 

 best herd of dairy cows on the South Coast between 1883 .'and i888 r 

 Sfier Coy n-rembled his dam in color, formation of back, loin, and 

 thigh, and the heifers sired by him possessed, like their granddam, 

 well-developed udders, and were all heavy milk producers, showing 

 plainly the granddam's influence. We have undoubtedly in the dam 

 of .Sojer Boy either a Red Lincoln or a cry-back to the old breed. A 

 famous bull was Boxer, in color a dark-red on body, with very dark- 

 red forequarters. He had a dark-colored muzzle and a white flank and 

 belly. Spinks Bros, mated Boxer with one of the finest cows ever 

 bred by Mr. Henry Fredricks. She was by a Baronet bull out of a 

 cow bred by Mr. William Gordon, o-f Summer Hill, Kiama. The re- 

 sult was a light roan bull calf called Musket. Musket grew up into 

 a very fine bull. Although not appearing to carry much condition, 

 like his sire, he was very strong constitutionally. Musket seems to 

 have " nicked" exactly with the Spinks herds as the sequel will sh.ow. 

 At one time in Kiama four yearling bulls exhibited by Spinks Bros, 

 were awarded first, second, third, and highly commended for fourth 

 prize in a ring of upwards of twenty young bulls. Yet the influence 

 of the dam of Boxer, bred as she was irom stock raised direct in 'line 

 from the late Mr. James Robb's black and white Ayrshire bull, could 

 be traced in that excellent strain for generations afterwards, inas- 

 much as the brown or black shades could be traced in either the so- 

 called roan or red Shorthorns, no matter how the sires and dams 

 were mated in order to produce clean colors. 



Another instance were the Boyd cattle. Who could look at Mr. 

 Dan Bt>yd's herd in 1886 without thinking of the cattle exhibited by 

 the McGills in the sixties and seventies, or Messrs. Joseph Dunster, 

 and William James of the seventies and eighties. There is yet an- 

 other example o-f the wonderful influence of a single animal in a whole 

 district, that of the celebrated purebred Ayrshire bull Earl Beacons- 

 field. Earl Beaconsfield was placed by Mr. Lindsay in his herd for 

 the purpose of altering the type and constitution, and the result, was 

 highly satisfactory. Earl Beaconsfield was a brown-red and white 

 color, with a very fine eye, a low-set, well-shaped body enveloped 

 in a skin as pliable and perfect as possible. In Mr. John Lindsay's 

 herd at Kembla Park, Dapto, he is said to have sired Honeycomb 

 and Whiteback, two of the most remarkable cows raised in Hlawarra. 

 Honeycomb being evidently a cryback to the type of cows seen many 

 years previous in Mr. Andrew McGill's herd, and Whiteback was by 

 the same token a cryback to the types of cows in Mr. Duncan Beat- 

 son's herd at the time McGill made his first purchase. In 

 the herd of Mr. John Grey, of Berry, Earl Beaconsfield 

 also proved himself a remarkable sire, and the young bulls, 

 although by no means purebred, were freely bought by 

 formers and mated with cows of all breeds and shades of color, 

 without ever disgracing the milking qualities or constitutiional vigor 

 of the Beaconsfields, as they were generally termed Similarly the 

 imported Red Lincoln " Governor" gave his name to characteristic 

 progeny known as the Governors many years previous to the intro- 

 duction of the Major blood. 



But it must not be forgotten that during all those years between 

 1830 and 1850 there were a very large percentage of Macarthur's 

 Longhorns among the dairy stock of Hlawarra. As a writer says : 



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