The Australasian pastoralists' review : a monthly journal and record of all matters affecting the pastoral and landed interests throughout Australasia

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NL 338.1 PAS
Created/Published
Melbourne : Twopenny, Pearce and Co., 1891-1901
Issue
Vol. 7 No. 10 (15 December 1897)
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Notes
refer to March issue for index
Page Notes
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Contents

THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS’ REVIEW: A MONTHLY JOURNAL AND RECORD 1
NOTICES. 1
Editorial Notes. 1 , 2
Stock and Station Notes. 3
Review of Pastoral Situation. New South Wales. 4 , 5
Victoria. 5 , 6
Queensland. 6 , 7
Northern Queensland. 7 , 8
South Australia. 8 , 9 , 10
Western Australia. 10
New Zealand.—North Island. 10 , 11 , 12
New Zealand.—South Island. 12 , 13
South Africa. 13 , 14
Great Britain. 14 , 17
Advertising 15 , 16
Ashford Sale. 17
News Jottings. 18
Advertising 19 , 20 , 21
Australasian Pastoralists’ Review. Government Assistance to the Producer. 21 , 22
The Queensland Land Bill of 1897. 22 , 23
New South Wales Legislation. 23
The New South Wales Income Tax. 24
The Artesian Wells Act (N.S.W.). 24 , 25
Condemnation of Diseased Cattle. 25 , 26
Through Gippsland. 26 , 27
Cavalry Horses. 27 , 28
Don’t Put Your Eggs into Too Many Baskets. 28 , 29
Advertising 29
Light Literature. SNAPPER, P.M. 30 , 33
Supplement to THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW, December, 1897. 31 , 32
On the Wallaby. 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37
Jackaroo Papers. 37 , 38 , 39
A Chapter of Accidents. 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43
Advertising 43
Labour Union Notes. 43
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Crossbreeding*. (To the Editor of “THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTOEALISTS’ REVIEW.”) 44
Tasmanian Sheepbreeding. (To the Editor of "THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS’ REVIEW.”) 44 , 45
Recoupment of Loss on Diseased Animals. (To the Editor of "THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS’ REVIEW.”) 45 , 46
The Stockowners’ Association of New South Wales. 46
Care of Foals. 46
Supplement to THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS’ REVIEW, December, 1897. 47
Cultivation of Grasses. (FORBES BURN, IN THE Otago Witness.) 49
Obituary. Mr. J. C. Firth. 49
Kent or Romney Marsh Ewes. 49
The Wool Trade. 50 , 51 , 52
Our London Letter. (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.) 52 , 53
Rainfall Tables.—November. 53
Government Supervision of Exports. 53
Meat Erport Trade. Frozen Meat. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) 54 , 55 , 56
Australasian Items. 57
The Australian Meat Export Association. 57
Inspection of Frozen Meat. 57
Produce Trade. Grain and Produce Report. 58
Produce. 58 , 59
Legal. Breaches of Shearing Agreement. 59
The Rabbit Pest. 59
Artesian Boring' Notes. 60
Publishers’ Department. 60
Auction Notices. See Page xxx. 60
Government Notices. See page xxxi. 60
Advertising 60

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THE  

AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS’ REVIEW:  

MONTHLY JOURNAL AND RECORD  

Of all matters affecting the Pastoral and Landed Interests throughout Australasia.  

No. 10.  

DECEMBER 15, 1897.  

Yol, VII.  

NOTICES.  

The Review of the Pastoeal Situation contains letters from  

special correspondents in New South Wales, Queensland (North and  

South), Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania,  

New Zealand (North and South), ARGENTINA, SOUTH  

AFRICA, and Great Britain.  

The Manager desires to make intimation to our Queensland  

subscribers that, notwithstanding the recent postal regulations,  

the Review will be forwarded to Queensland addresses without  

any extra charge.  

Editorial Notes.  

Our reports this month are not very bright from any colony  

except New Zealand; and in south-western Queensland the drought  

is producing heavy losses of both sheep and cattle. The coastal dis-  

tricts of both New South Wales and Queensland had good rains at  

the beginning of the month, but they only penetrated into the  

interior in odd places. The development of the wool market  

during the month has been distinctly unfavourable, the chief  

characteristic being its uncertainty. The London meat market  

is at last beginning to show slight signs of improvement,  

and further rise may be regarded as probable during  

the coming month. For harvesting the dry weather has  

been favourable, and the crops, though mostly poor, will suffice for  

Australian requirements and obviate any necessity for American  

importations. For most pastoralists we fear that this will not be  

very merry Christmas, though there are exceptionally favoured  

districts like Gippsland, and there are more isolated patches of  

good season scattered over the continent than are taken into  

account in general lamentations. To all, however, we heartily wish  

“ Happy New Year.”  

♦  

4f  

In our issue of July last we commented upon the somewhat  

extravagant estimates of the losses in sheep consequent upon  

the recent drought in New South Wales, and we then pointed  

out that the number of lambs marked would, in all proba-  

bility, largely exceed the number set down in such estimates.  

The number of lambs estimated as the net result of the autumn  

and winter lambings was at that time set down at 2,000,000, but  

from the New South Wales returns up to date the actual number  

of lambs marked was 5,255,355, or 39J per cent, of the total  

number of breeding ewes put to the ram. Last year the number  

of lambs marked from the autumn and winter lambings was  

8,097,287, or 58 per cent, on the number of ewes put to the ram, so  

the deficiency caused by the drought of 1897 may be put down at  

18J per cent. From the shearing returns we have seen the  

deficiency in grown sheep is not so serious as might have been  

expected, but the sheep all round have cut considerably lighter  

fleeces than last year, which will account for the deficiency in the  

number of bales in the clip of 1897 as compared with that of 1896.  

As we pointed out in July last, the actual loss of sheep is not  

nearly so heavy as was estimated, for the deficiency in numbers is  

to considerable extent accounted for by the increased numbers of  

sheep sold through the yards at Homebush, boiled down, and ex-  

ported as frozen mutton. These all mean cash return to the  

growers, although that return may only have been small one, so  

that the deficiency in the number of grown sheep cannot be re-  

garded as total loss. It is satisfactory to hear from the country  

where the drought was most severely felt that, although the recent  

abnormal heat had dried up the herbage and grass, stock are still  

in strong condition, if not actually fat, though this does not apply  

to south-western Queensland.  

 

 

Sir Hugh Nelson’s reply to the deputation of cattle-growers  

from North Queensland, which waited upon him to ask for some  

reduction in the rents of their holdings in consideration of the  

damage caused by the tick plague to their holdings and stock, was  

far from satisfactory. It seems to us that the only form in which  

the Government could make any concession to the pastoralists  

who have suffered so severely from the plague is in the reduction  

of their rents, and the promise of Sir Hugh Nelson to subsidise  

line of steamers to carry chilled meat to southern ports really  

amounts to nothing. We pointed out in these columns some  

months ago the numerous factors which would combine to make  

the establishment of an intercolonial trade in chilled meat  

matter of virtual impossibility from practical business point of  

view, and we do not see that the conditions affecting the trade have  

altered materially since then, or that Sir Hugh Nelson’s offer is likely  

to make very much difference. In the long run we think reduction  

in the rents would be the cheapest for the Government, inasmuch  

as the proposed subsidy would require to be very heavy one to  

induce steamers to fit up refrigerating machinery and insulated  

chambers and carry on regular trade in chilled meat. Another  

important point is that the supply of fat cattle from the tick districts  

is very fluctuating one, and unless the trade were continuous we  

do not think there would be any likelihood of the consumption of  

such meat being established in the southern colonies. At the pre-  

sent time the meat works on the Queensland coast are all idle for  

considerable season in the year, owing to the difficulty of obtain-  

ing cattle to keep them working, and this is found to be the case  

with the meat works where large numbers of cattle not fit for  

export as butchers’ meat are treated in other ways, it would apply  

with much greater force to chilled meat trade where none but  

the primest cattle could be dealt with.  

♦  

The question of the renewal of leases of pastoral holdings  

situated in the settled districts of Queensland is now agitating the  

public mind in Brisbane. Some of these leases are expiring, and  

good many of them have expired, and the lessees now hold their  

runs under yearly occupation license—a form of tenure practiq  

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