Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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THE SQUATTER S PET. At the end of five years there would be ten thousand cattle on therun, and after making liberal allowances for expenses from that time,the annual increase would be two thousand five hundred, of which fullyeight hundred would be fat cattle. The sale of the increase would re-turn from twenty-eight to thirty thousand dollars annually; and afterdeducting liberally for working expenses, the yearly profit could be put 384 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTEALASIA.
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CATTLE GOING TO WATER. down at twenty thousand dollars. Meantime the run has doubled invalue, and the investment is paying handsomely. This is the bright side of the picture. The dark side containsepidemics of pleuro-pneumonia, which has been the ruin of squatterson more than one occasion; added to this is the danger of a severedrought, in which thousands of cattle die of thirst and the inability toget food in consequence of the drying up of the grass. In some years PROFITS OF SHEEP-RAISING. 385 millions of cattle and sheep have perisiied in this way, and hundredsof owners were ruined. Compared with sheep-raisingy said Mr. Watson, the cattle busi-ness will return a high interest on the capital invested if properly man-aged and fairly successful, but does not afford the rapid road to wealththat many have travelled by a few successful years with sheep. Cattlerequire few men to manage them, and entail no great expense beforethey are sold and the money is obtained for them. A cattle-stati

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