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appears bo be muoh tougher ; the hair is quite short, and does 

 not provide favourable shelter for the development of ticks." 



This cross seems to be to the ox what the mule is to the 

 horse; it partakes of the qualities of both parents, but, how- 

 ever, remains fertile. To the ox it owes its succulent flesh 

 and humpless back ; to the Zebu the smaller bone and quick 

 growth, greater activity, hardiness, and resistance to tropical 

 diseases. The Zebu is a tropical ox, and resists there where it 

 has been proved other cattle are carried away by disease. It 



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i^ not affected either by the damp heat or by prolonged drought, 

 which favour such diseases as piroplasmosis, but it cannot 

 stand too much cold. It Mill prove a useful animal for our 

 tropics, while in milder climates it is not required. 



A description of one of the three Zebu-Shorthorn cross raised 

 by Mr. \Y. McKenzie Grant, near Dongarra, W.A., is interest- 

 ing. The cattle were sired by a Derrimut Shorthorn bull, the 

 dam being a Brahman cow, a little hump-backed animal 

 weighing 350 lbs. or so dressed, and standing eight or nine 

 hands, and which had for many years occupied an exhibit pen 

 at the Zoological Gardens. South Perth. The respective live 

 weights of the trio were as follows ; 2240 lbs. (six years old), 



