FIRST CENTURY OF DAIRYING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



fore, quite consistent with the tenor of these remarks to observe, 

 or to allow, that even among the purest of our dairy Shorthorn 

 herd- many intermixtures have sometime or other obtained from 

 their intercourse with other breeds, owing to the admittance, direct- 

 ly or indirectly, of the latter into these herds. This is at < nco 

 patent to the practical eye from the resemblance which exists he- 

 tween the admittedly cross-bred animals and those in which the 

 alloy is strenuously denied to exist in any shape or form. 



We are told, of course, that every breed of animal must have 

 had a beginning, and in order to make that beginning all sorts and 

 conditions of animals must be admitted into the evolutionary cycle, 

 provided they represent the type and color desired. Rut it may In- 

 argued what is wrong with any ether breed that will give the same 

 type, notwithstanding its variety of colors, but better at the milk 

 pail? It is at the constitutional vigour and productiveness that 

 all practical dairymen look when selecting cattle for their own use. 

 On these grounds the present-day IJlawarra type bull or cow 

 will compare more than favourably with any other breed of dairy 

 animals. Then why not persist with them, although they may 

 contain an admixture of Ayrshire blood in their veins? Why at- 

 tempt to eliminate 1 the Ayrshire blood from ^ Shorthorn dairy 

 animal, if it was, and is, considered a very judicious thing to in- 

 fuse a little Ayrshire blood into such animals? 



Here endeth the author's last chapter of reflections and deduc- 

 tions. Having reached the end of my difficult enterprise, I may be 

 allowed to take an occasional view of those old bush tracts over 

 which I have passed in my endeavour to erect a cairn to the 

 memory of those old sturdy pioneers who laid the foundation of 

 and built up the dairying industry and the dairying herds of Xew 

 South Wales. I undertook to examine what history told us. and 

 what practical experience taught us on these points. T was far 

 from flattering myself that I was able to clear this up in a becoming 

 manner. Nevertheless, I set forth upon my journey, with that 

 courage which is inspired by the love of duty, and the confidence 

 that one is rendering a service to the memory of those men and 

 women who braved the solitudes of our Australian bush in order 

 to make this great country better than they found it. I, therefore, 

 submit my whole work to the judgment of the dairy farmers of 

 Australia. 



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