FIRST CENTURY OF DAIRYING IN NEW SOUTH WALES 



basis of mutual agreement and action. For it is easy to show, in 

 a short and lively manner that such points in a dairy animal or a 

 breed of dairy animals, that this and other things are liable tp ob- 

 jection; that this or the other thing is of little importance in 

 itself; but impossible to show, in like manner, the united and con- 

 vincing forces of the whole argument in one view. 



Hence we may expect to have a continuation of the 'Battle of 

 the Breeds." If a new breed of dairy cattle is to be aimed at, 

 the breeder must grasp the laws of assimilation. For example: In 

 the physical world, whatever has life is characterised by growth, 

 so that to grow in no respect is to cease to live. It grows by tak- 

 ing into its own substance external materials, and this absorption 

 or assimilation is completed when the materials appropriated come 

 to belong to it, or enter into its unity. Two or more .things 

 cannot become one, except there be a power of assimilation in 

 one or other of them. Sometimes assimilation is effected only with 

 an effort; at other times it is impossible. But in the case of dairy 

 cattle breeding the object is .to aim at that type and color that will 

 assimilate all others. We have a practical example of thi> in 

 the late Mr. William Coman's cow Beach. Mr. Comun commenced 

 breeding dairy cattle in 1842, at Eurobodalla, in the Moruya dis- 

 trict, with the prevailing breeds of cattle in those days, the Long- 

 horn and the Longhorn Durham. He shortly afterwards intro- 

 duced the Red Norfolk polled breed, which were then excellent dairy 

 cattle, with the object of giving color to his herd. He then 

 purchased Young Ajax, by Ajax .(imported by Mr. William Camp- 

 bell, of Bergalia, Moruya, in 1848. And in the course of a few 

 years the Coman breed of cattle became celebrated for their dairy 

 quality. He was afterwards successful with a valuable bull bred 

 by Mr. Chisholm, of Goulburn, named Oscar. Oscar was by In- 

 kermann (imp.). Inkermann was bred by Mr. John Unthank (Eng- 

 land), and was got by Duke of Hamilton (i9,6i8-C.H.B.). His 

 dam was Playful, by Inkermann (i4,73O .C.H.B.), The cow Beach 

 is descended from the Oscar strain, but she has inherited the deep 

 red colour of the red polled Norfolk breed. Beach has a record 

 of 661b. of milk, registering 5 per cent, butter fat, in 24 hour-, at 

 Cobargo show. Mr. Coman was one of the most successful breeders 

 of dairy cattle in New South Wales, his well-known brand \V.C. 

 could be seen in nearly all the noted herds -from Bodalla to Twofold 

 Bay on the south, and as far north as Terry's Meadows, and 

 Dapto, Messrs. William Wilson and Evan Evans jointly purchased 

 several batches of heifers from the Squire of Eurobodalla. In 

 later years the late Mr. George Chapman, of Eureka, Kiama. pur 

 chased a light roan bull of excellent quality, bred on the same 

 lines as the cow Beach. Chapman's bull was a particularly fine 

 animal, with great length and depth of body, displaying much T.nns?- 

 horned-Durham blood in his appearance and quality. 



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