May 15, 1906 
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Wh at is a Fat Bullock ? 
“What is a fat ox?” asks a writer in the 
“Farmer and Stockbreeder.” We prefer our 
colonial term, “ bullock.” “Ah!? he says 
“that jis precisely what many muffs in the 
arming world have need to learn, and others; 
00, for that matter, who may be fairly + ell up 
in their cectipation otherwise. Many a man 
knows better how to fatten his animal than to 
tell when it is fat. And whether or no the ox 
or heifer be fit to go may make, and very likely 
will, Id. per lb difference in price realised, and 
these pence represent profits very often. There 
are nice tight little heifers and steers that make 
their way pretty well good as they go, and here 
esteemed points are likely to be found when 
looked for. But, on the other hand, there are 
big boned, three cornered, inapt fatteners that 
require a }ot of ripening up, and need careful 
exaniining to ascertain when they are really fit 
to go.e The ripe teast has a well developed 
cline, well covered 1ibs, fully-developed loin, 
wide hips well flesh-capped, good rumps, pro- 
jecting twist, a double handful of flank, large 
st ium, deep wide brisket pushing well for- 
yard. Though the under beef is not the part 
to i-tch the money on the butcher's slab—and 
he knows it- it indicates weight in the carcass 
that no other point does. Finally, there is a 
eeriain touch which tells the initiated when the 
¢.onss is ripe—even a firm but pleas.nt touch 
whith yields but little to pressure—whilst 
bp. if rm fleshiness all over the carcass is essen- 
tial, or at least desirable, But.! dear me! the 
ng of a fat bullock is becoming almost a 
st art in these days of auction marts, and it is 
vein fot the feeder to hope to know when his 
st is fit to yo if he knows not the meaning of 
information given in the examination of almost 
every point.” 
THE VALUE OF THE GOAT, 
Writing on the cubject of the common (not 
the Angora) goat, a correspondent at Nikenbah, 
Maryborough (Qd.), says:—*I am aware that 
the common goat does not, as ainle, command 
the sympathy of the general public, but let me 
show how these animals can be of great use to 
the settlers on new scrub lands. I felled two 
pieces of scrub, each of about 20 acres, nearly at 
the same time. The timber on each block was 
burnt off about six months ago. On one of the 
cleared portions my goats were allowed to roam 
at will, with the result that to day there is 
scarcely a sucker of new growth or a weed to be 
seen. On the secend block. which was protected 
from the goats, the new timber growth is 3 to 4 
feet high, and would cost at least 153 an acre to 
bring it to the condition of the ot er piece on 
which the goats browsed.” f 
THE NEXT DROUGHT. 
Mr Clement Wragge. the Government Met--or- 
ologist in Qneensland, in writing to the London 
“Standard” recently, foretells another drought, 
and ends his ktter as follows:—“* Now is tho 
time for Australiais to wake up and lock the 
vivers for water conservation and _ irrigation. 
Better so than trying to keep out hoe Jaranese. 
For another Australian drought will attach to 
the next solar minimum after 1910 as surely as 
little apples fall in autumn: . Laughter and 
ridicule will not-alter fact, and Galileo’s spirit 
will bear full witness.” 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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