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. 4 No. 2 (16 April 1894)
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Notes
Index appears at the beginning of the March issue
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Contents

THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW. 1
NOTICE. 1
Editorial Notes. 1 , 2 , 3
Review of Pastoral Situation. New South Wales. 4 , 5
Victoria. 5 , 6
Queensland. 6 , 7
Western Australia. 7 , 8
Tasmania. 8
Advertising 9
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS; 10 , 11 , 12
New Zealand. 13 , 14
Argentine. 14 , 15
The Wool Trade. 15 , 16 , 17
Our London Wool Letter. 17 , 18
News Jottings. 18
The Frojen Meat Trade. Our London Letter. 19 , 20 , 21
The Graziers’ Meat Export Company of New South Wales. 21 , 22 , 23 , 24
Charges. 24 , 27
Advertising 25 , 26
Items. 27
Mr. Outhbert Fetherstonhaugh. 28
Advertising 29 , 30 , 31
Australasian Pastoralists’ Review. Frozen Meat. 31 , 32
Pastoral Legislation in South Australia. 32
“The Land Systems of Australasia.” 32 , 33 , 34
The Waste Lands of Australia. 34 , 35
Artesian Boring1 Legislation. 35
A Stock Institute. 35 , 36
Tape-worms in Sheep and Cattle. 36
Herd Books and Flock Books 37
Stock and Station Notes. 38 , 39
Mr. T. F. Rutledge’s (Werrongurt) Lincoln Stud Flock. 39
Light Literature. The Taking1 Over of Wallawanta. 40 , 41
Advertising 41
Our Book-Shelf in the Bush. 41 , 42
Boring Notes. 42
Progress of Government Artesian Bores in N.S.W. 42
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 43
English Leicesters for Crossing-. 43
Fluke Germs. 43
Wet Sheep. 43
Frozen Meat and Pastoral Leases. 43 , 44
The Frozen Meat Industry. 44
Situation in a Nutshell. 44
The State ot the English Farmer.—Interview with Lord Winchelsea. 45 , 46
Queensland Pastoralists’ Association. 46
Death of Mr. F. G. Dalgety. 47
Lung-worm Attacks Among Flocks. 47
The Sydney Agricultural Show. 48 , 49
Blood-poisoning’ in Lambs after Cutting- and Tailing’. 49
Deaths of Sheep in New South Wales. 50
Manuring the Soil. 50
Legal. The Wet Sheep Difficulty. 51 , 52 , 53
The Benmore Shearing1 Case.—Statement by President of Shearers’ Union. 53 , 54
South Australia. 54
Record. Shearing Rates Revised.—New Agreement. 54
The Pastoralists’ Union of New South Wales. 54
Notice to Shearers. 55
Notice to Shearers. 55
Notice to Shearers. 55
Pastoralists’ Federal Council. 55 , 56
Rainfall Tables—March, 1894. 57
Publishers’ Department. 57 , 58
Advertising 58
Tetanus. 58
Advertising 58

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THE  

AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW.  

MONTHLY JOURNAL AND RECORD  

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

No. 2.  

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, APRIL 16, 1894.  

Yol. IV.  

NOTICE.  

The “ Australasian Pastoralists' Review has been established at  

the instance, and ivith the official support of the Federated Pastoralists'  

Unions of New South Wales, Victoria, United Queensland, and South  

Australia, for the defence of their common interests and the pro-  

motion of the pastoral industry.  

SUBSCEIPTIONS.  

The terms of subscription are One Pound Sterling per annum,  

payable in advance. All orders should be addressed to the Manager,  

either at 63 Pitt-street, Sydney, or 475 Collins-street, Melbourne.  

LONDON AGENCY.  

Mr. J. T. Critchell, 31 Fleet-street, has been appointed special  

representative of this Review for Great Britain, and is authorised to  

receive subscriptions and advertisements.  

Editorial Notes.  

The difficulty of procuring information as to how the Australa-  

sian wool and frozen mutton trades will be affected by competition  

from the River Plate has doubtless been felt by many of our  

readers. We are pleased to be able to inform them that we have  

completed arrangements for adding to our “ Review of the Pastoral  

Situation” letter from Argentina by correspondent who has  

large practical experience of that country. His first letter appears  

in the present issue. In commenting upon the conditions of the  

competition between Australia and Argentina he says “ Argen-  

tina pastoralists do not at present see the importance of keeping  

their flocks clean and Argentine wool is therefore falling into dis-  

credit in England, although the wool grown here is considered of  

better quality than yours (sic). Up till now sheep-rearing has been  

almost altogether confined to the province of Buenos Ayres, and  

every year the mortality through the two extremes—starvation and  

drowning—has reached to millions not thousands of sheep.  

This however, will not be so in future, for now the countless  

leagues of the Pampa Central are being taken up, and there will be  

no such mortality out there, so that within the next four or five  

years we shall see the number of sheep and consequently the  

number of wethers frozen and weight of wool for export doubled.  

The wool, too, from the Pampa will be free from anything except  

sand, there are no seeds or burr out there of any importance.”  

♦  

 

lx is some consolation to reflect that, if prices are very low, the  

prospects of good season almost throughout Australia were never  

better. In Queensland, especially, there is great deal to build  

hope upon, and we should not be surprised to see phenomenal  

rise in the value of cattle stations before long. The experts all  

seem to agree that wool has “touched bottombut though all the  

signs are favourable, there is no actual movement to chronicle.  

The bi-metallists point to this as proof of the correctness of their  

case, alleging that, with every condition favourable, there must  

have been rise before this but for the insufficiency of the standard  

of value. Meanwhile the feature of the year is the general  

awakening to the importance of the frozen meat trade, and  

movement to establish factories all along the line. In Victoria  

projects are on foot for up-country chilling works at number of  

places, with central freezing factories at Geelong and Portland.  

The interests of the various districts of New South Wales are  

included in comprehensive scheme for freezing at Sydney, with  

chilling works as may be required. In Queensland, the ambition  

of Charleville for chilling works has been checked by the Railway  

Commissioners, who say they cannot afford to carry chilled meat  

so long distance at rates which will pay the grower, but there is  

good prospect of works being established at the Gulf.  

♦  

 

Victoria is at last awakening to the fact that her border stock tax  

must be abolished, deputation of farmers recently waited on the  

Victorian Premier to askfor its extinction; and they further suggested  

that he might at the same time to arrange to remove the New South  

Wales duties on produce. The Premier apparently quite sees that  

the stock tax must go, his perception being assisted by the fact that  

nearly everyone else has come to this conclusion, and he also sees  

that, under all the circumstances, he might as well spare himself  

the trouble of asking New South Wales to remove her produce  

duties. The first effect of the removal of the Victorian stock tax  

will be to raise the value of New South Wales “ store” cattle,  

owing to an effective demand for this class of stock from the  

Victorian “ fatteners.” The next effect will be to raise the value  

of New South Wales “ fats,” owing to the sale in Victoria of cattle  

that would otherwise have been fattened and sold in New South  

Wales. Queensland is unlikely to benefit for some little time to  

come. The prolonged droughts in that colony have sadly thinned  

the numbers of her cattle; and now that she has had good rains, and  

has good pastures, she will, for time, keep her cattle and increase  

until the runs are stocked up again. When that point is reached  

we may again see the large herds of Queensland “overlanders”  

making slowly down the New South Wales stock routes for the  

Victorian border.  

 

That the cobbler should stick to his last is nearly always good  

working maxim, but it applies to ministers of religion beyond  

other classes, because they rarely get that practical contact with  

everyday affairs which produces worldly wisdom, and “ have  

nothing of politics but the passions they excite.” It was sermon  

by Nonconformist minister, who had become infatuated with the  

ideas of the French Revolution, that drew from Burke his famous  

“Reflections” on the Revolution. The Revs. H. Tucker and C. Strong,  

of Melbourne, who are now advocating the nationalisation of the  

land, are the lineal descendants of those paper philosophers. Their  

intentions are excellent, and their plans would be to match if it  

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