ON THE INTERMINGLING OF BREEDS. 



as being practical dairymen, who made the best possible use of .the 

 material at their command. Among these were Mr. Ebenezer Rus- 

 sell, of Croome, who established the ER brand ; Mr. Joseph Dun- 

 ster, the Z over W brand; Mr. George Woods, Jamberoo. the GW 

 brand; Mr. Henry Fredericks, Kiama, the HF brand; Mr. James 

 Spinks, the JSP brand; Mr. William Gordon, GX brand; Mr. Hugh 

 Dudgeon, H D reversed brand ; Mr. John Colley, the Cf brand ; 

 and Mr. James /Graham, of Waughope, Jamberoo, the JG brand. The 

 Messrs. Black and the Misses Black, who had excellent herds of cattle 

 in the fifties and sixties, obtained their stock principally -from Mjr. 

 Henry Osborne. Mr. John Ma/rks purchased from the Messrs. 

 Macleay, of Ulladulla, and from Mr. Henry Osborne. Mr. John 

 Black's brand was JJB, and Mr. Mark's brand was M 1 in circle. 

 There were other breeders on the Riversdale Estate besides Mri 

 James Robb, sen., notably the Messrs. William and _Joseph Vance, 

 Samuel Forward, and later on Mr. George Wood, Spring Hill, 

 Messrs. Vance and Forward's cattle were of very excellent quality; 

 district. In the immediate vicinity of Kiam^. there were Mr. 

 but they did not continue breeding for many years in the Kiama 

 John King, who used to breed from the HO brand; and also Messrs. 

 Hugh and William Colley, who bred from the HO brand for many 

 years, generally for their own use. Then there were the Love, 

 Moses, and Elliott families near M'ount Pleasant. Mr. William El- 

 liott's brand was WE. Elliott's cattle bred from the HO brand 

 could not be beaten 'for quality anywhere. Further south the 

 herds were made up more from Messrs. Berry and Wollstonecratft 

 strain of dairy cattle. Mr. John Berry was the man in charge of 

 the Jindyandy herd, and he went in extensively for the Longhorned 

 Durham, which suited the fancy of the dairymen in and around the 

 Shoalhaven Valley. 



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