Transcription

[199]
[67]
GWYDER DISTRICT

new Country every year for the increase of their herds of Cattle & for their flocks of sheep

During the year 1850 the runs for Cattle on the Mooki Namoi, 7 Gwyder rivers became overstocked, the lessees of the runs on those rivers, had been regularly boiling down the fat cattle from their stations, Yet still they found the increase of their herds more than their runs could carry, Many stockholders gave orders to splay the cows & heifers for the purpose of fattening for the boiling down houses, and also to destroy the Bulls on their fattening runs. They also gave notice that all strange Bulls found on their runs would be shot. That year an unusual number of Cattle were sent to the Boiling down Establishments, & this took place in despite of an unusual dry and parched season in the Country under the Liverpool range through which the Cattle had to travel to the boiling houses, Some large proportion of Cattle Sent from two thousand eight hundred to four thousand head, and Some proprietors are said to have sent eight thousand head from their fattening runs.

In the month of August 1850 herds of cattle were only worth attention for the tallow, and as the quantity obtained from the best breeding is twice that produced by the worst, it has become imperative with all those who make this kind of property as profitable as possible that their herd be of the best breed so far as they can effect this, Supposing then an improvement in the tallow qualities of a herd to be the object - inferior females are splayed, & inferior bulls killed, So that breeding may go on only from the best cattle of the herd, & which desired improvement is of course much assisted by merely reducing a high number to a much smaller, and therefore more manageable one nor was it then to be forgotten also that under the then regulations of the Government that every six hundred & forty head of Cattle might be strictly required an additional £10 in payment of ciss or grazing fee a circumstance of some Consideration & Consequence with a very badly bred herd, & then again in not exceeding three Summers & often but one after Splaying worthless cattle whether from age or breed are so changed for the better as to have arrived at

 

 

 

 

Current Status: 
Ready for review