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thought the other mob would kill better than mine, but my mob averaged 70lb better than his. They had always been worked quietly, allowed to walk along not been driven with whips cracking. We always had whips mostly with long falls, but no crackers, mostly to drive stray cattle out of our way. The long falls lasted for months & at times for years. It is not often necessary to drive stray cattle off the road, they may mix with yours but will draw off as yours feed along. Sixty years ago the Station cattle were taught to string out when quite a way from the stock yard & the tail end of the mob were at times three quarters 3/4 of a mile away in a mob of 800 or so when the leaders went thro (through) the gate into the yard. But this in my opinion is not right, & many years after we used to have trouble at Tooloon (?) 8 miles from Gladstone stringing the mob along the road beside

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