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consignment of Zebu bulls will be imported from India into 

 the Northern Territory. 



The breed is tick-resistant, and will fatten practically where 

 our own stock would starve. In parts of the Northern Terri- 

 tory and the north-west, where our cattle suffer large losses 

 from disease and numerous insect pests, these Zebus would 

 thrive and prove a source of profit on thousands of acres of 

 country at present unoccupied. The illustration herewith 

 shows the fine type of cattle that results from the mating of 



CHAMrn>N Heiiefoi:i> Cow, Jean, Hiiisijahs Show, < t >., 1918 

 Exhibited by Mr. J. Sparkes 



the Zebu and the Shorthorn, and the following extract from a 

 letter from Mr. William McDowall, Christmas Creek, Charters 

 Towers, Queensland, to the Royal Zoological and Acclimatisa- 

 tion Society of Victoria regarding a Zebu bull sent him by the 

 Society, is worth quoting : — 



' The white bull I got from you is a very big beast now, 

 and very quiet ; his calves are a year bigger than ordinary 

 cattle, eat dry grass in the heat of the day, and get and keep 

 fat where ordinary cattle die ; they seem to be immune to all 

 diseases ; we never wash or spray them for ticks, and we never 

 even see a fly or insect on the bull himself," 



