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admirable health resort, the bracing air, and the cool nights even in the hottest 
summer, making it a delightful place of residence for an invalid jaded with the 
heat of the days and the sultry summer nights of the coast country. 
Although not an agricultural district, there are several small cultivated 
addocks, where lucerne, wheat, oats, barley, maize, and potatoes are grown for 
ea use. The uncultivated portion is hilly, heavily timbered, and stony. 
The timber consists mainly of box, gum, ironbark, apple-tree; and wattle, the 
latter of which is in many parts stripped for tanning purposes, the bark fetching 
from £2 10s. to £5 per ton according to demand. 
Sheep and cattle thrive admirably, and, wherever ringbarking has been done, 
the carrying capabilities of the run have been much improved, and a sheep to the 
acre, or its equivalent in cattle, is not considered excessive. 
The locality is especially well adapted for wool-growing, as will be shown in 
our nextarticle. Mr. Allan breeds Lincolns and white and black merinos, which 
are described and illustrated further on. 
For the present we are only concerned with the purebred Hereford herd. 
Tt may, however, be mentioned that the dairy herd consists of very fine pure 
and grade Jerseys. 
The specialty, then, of Braeside is a large herd of Herefords, numbering 
over 1,000, which have all descended in direct line from high-class imported 
English stock. ‘The whole of these are duly entered in the Braeside stud-books, 
in which they are named, numbered, and pedigreed. 
The dams are the lineal descendants of 36 purebred cows with which Mr. 
Allan commenced operations over twenty years ago. ‘These cows were purchased 
by him from Messrs. Robertson Brothers, of Colac, Western Victoria, at their- 
sreat breaking-up sale in January, 1878. : 
The stud herd comprises 338 bulls, 467 cows, and 278 heifers from seven. 
to nine months old. . All these fine animals are well worthy of a visit from any-- 
one interested in stock-breeding. 
Mr. Allan kindly afforded our artist, Mr. F. ©. Wills, every assistance in. 
taking photographs of them, some of which are here reproduced. 
The values of the bulls range from £250 for such grand animals as: 
Horace Wilton (imp.) to £50, £30, and £21 for selected stud bulls, whilst 
£8 8s. is the usual price for ordinary herd bulls. 
CHARACTER OF HEREFORDS, 
They are very stylish in appearance, and plainly show their pure breeding, 
and, having been born and bred in the cold hard hill country, are perfectly 
healthy and strong. They are exceedingly lively, yet remarkably docile, allowing 
even women and children to pass them without notice. To meet a bull in an 
English meadow is an unpleasant experience, which often ends in disaster to the 
intruder, but the case 1s different in Queensland. Bulls running freely in 
large paddocks are rarely dangerous. Of this the writer had good proof at 
Braeside. Unknown to him, the three powerful-looking animals shown in our 
illustration were grazing on a narrow piece of ground between the garden and 
the creek. He was going along the creek bank, looking out for the trout, when 
suddenly he found himself face to face with all three. They simply stared at 
the stranger; and when ordered to “ get out of that,” they meekly obeyed and 
retired. Large as are the Herefords here, they increase much in size when sent to 
warmer pastures. ‘They are, moreover, capital travellers. In colour they are 
dark-red, with characteristic white faces and bellies, the majority having a white 
mark on the shoulder, but this last peculiarity is not a sine qua non, as the 
breeder prefers a minimum to a maximum of white on his cattle, excepting, of 
course, the predominating characteristic of the white face and belly. 
The likeness of all these animals to each other, both in form and colour, 
is remarkable. They remind one forcibly of Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee in 
“Alice in Wonderland.” It is a sight to be remembered to have a close view 
of two or three hundred full-grown bulls peaceably feeding together, the general © 
opinion of the city man being that bulls, when placed together in a paddock, 
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