SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Boiling-down Works on the Gulf. A market was opened for cattle, and a ) 
number of mobs were taken there from the Territory, particularly from the 
McArthur River. 
By 1894, the position was so serious in the Gulf that Mr. Pound, Govern- 
ment Bacteriologist of Queensland, was commissioned to visit the district and 
report. As a result of the exhaustive experiments carried out on Texas fever 
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TICK-DAMAGED HIDE. A SAMPLE OF AVOIDABLE LOSS. 
(redwater) in America by Smith and Kilbourne, who first proved the connexion 
with ticks, Mr. Pound was able to demonstrate the similarity, if not the identity, 
of the two diseases. : 
‘ Meanwhile, owing to the opening of meat works at Townsville, cattle were | 
being driven from the Gulf to the Hast Coast, and the community, not being. , 
yet convinced of the real seriousness of the tick, the contention being hotly | 
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