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October 2020 THE BEEF SHORTHORN OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE BEEF SHORTHORN SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA HOME OF THE AUSTRALIAN SHORTHORN www.beefshorthorn.org.au OCTOBER 2020 BIG SPRINGS HOMESTEAD www.beefshorthorn.org.au The Federal Secretary Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia PO Box 199, Rutherglen VIC 3685 Phone: 0419 317 990 Email: [email protected] PRESIDENTS REPORT regions and the desire to rebuild, renewed optimism swept the domestic cattle market. However, the domestic market increasingly faces the drag of demand uncertainty as COVID-19 outbreaks continue to disrupt the local and global marketplace. Opportunities for producers to restock paddocks have emerged, with many of the southern states seeing significant improvements in soil moisture and water availability since February. This has been reflected in the number of cattle heading south. While central and south-east Queensland received a break, it came at the end of the northern wet season. Some good winter rainfall will be required to support deficiencies in the region and the latest three-month outlook does provide some confidence”. Dear All, With very little news to report this edition of the Society’s newsletter takes the shape of a historical As we put this newsletter to print the world is flashback which I hope you enjoy. A very interesting experiencing very uncertain and unprecedented and informative article is also included researched times; the Coronavirus has fundamentally changed and written by David Ashley. our way of living - this affects everyone. Our vocabulary has expanded to use new phrases such If you have not already done so, membership as “social distancing”, “self isolating”, “pandemic, subscriptions are now due. Please give this “quarantine”, “lockdown” to name a few. We have your prompt attention. all had to make adjustments to our lives and we look forward to a brighter future when we return As was advised via email JBS has made a to some form of normality. I hope that you all commercial decision not to publish or broadcast continue to enjoy good health and exercise the their slaughter and feeder rates, however quotes recommended precautions to transition through and inspections can be arranged simply by this virus to better times. contacting any one of their buyers direct. A listing of buyers can be found on the Society’s website. There are many things in the breeding of beef that we cannot control as we are so reliant on the Australia’s national beef expo is one of the world’s weather and markets. However, what we can great beef cattle events and is held once every control is the quality of the cattle we produce. three years in Rockhampton, Queensland. Beef There is a renewed sense of optimism in the Australia 2021 will be held from May 2 to 8 as a cattle market and improved seasonal conditions. celebration of all facets of the Australian beef industry. Beef Australia’s organisers say they’re An extract from the MLA Cattle Projection reports confident the national cattle industry expo will go states “The Australian cattle market, like so ahead in May 2021, despite not knowing when the many other commodities markets, finds itself in ban on mass gatherings will be lifted. If possible unchartered territory, with many diverging factors an event not to be missed if you have not already impacting the industry. On the back of an excellent experienced “Beef”. autumn break for many southern cattle producing The Society’s website is available to all members who wish to advertise or make an editorial the most recent exhibition. contribution or simply use as a reference tool for upcoming events and the like. With many industry Except that Melbourne Shows may not always have events currently utilising ‘virtual’ or ‘digital’ media, been ‘Royal’, the answer to the question whether the 1880 Champions were the first Beef Shorthorn the website is a great resource to access to keep Champions at a Melbourne Show is ‘no’. Within up to date. four years of Melbourne’s foundation in 1836, the Pastoral & Agricultural Society of Australia Felix was Finally, I wish you all continued good health under established. It held a Show in March 1842. Although these trying circumstances and look forward to ploughing matches were the main attraction, ‘a few when we can meet and speak face to face. horned cattle’ were exhibited. The chances of them not being Beef Shorthorns are remote. As early Regards as 1840, the Sydney Herald, in a report from Port Phillip, stated that – “Mr Williamson, of Bunnoryong (sic), has Marion Spencer, President lately made a splendid addition to his stock by the purchase of the Earl of Derby, an excellent imported bull, and two very fine bulls from Van OUR HISTORY Dieman’s Land, all of the pure short-horned Durham breed.” “LONG AND The Port Phillip Farmers’ Society came into existence in 1848, replacing the earlier Society. In the first year MERITORIOUS” of its existence it established the Victorian Shorthorn Herd Book, and it began to hold an annual show. List of Champions at Melbourne Royal Shows The Argus newspaper reported in October 1854 1880 -1935 that “The dairy stock, the short-horned bulls Champion Bulls particularly, were much admired.” 1880 Duke of Alvie 5th - Robertson Bros Champion Cows Still, however, no Champion had been identified by Geneva’s Matilda - J Horwood name. Beef Shorthorns were thriving commercially. This is an entry in The Australian Beef Shorthorn Victorian newspapers from the 1840s onwards Breeders’ Guide 1935. It sets out the first were full of advertisements and reports about the Melbourne Champions known to that publication. cattle. In January 1848, for instance, the Port Phillip But were they the first Champions? Who were Gazette & Settlers’ Journal advertised ‘Robertson Bros’? Who was ‘J Horwood’? These “350 Mixed herd of short-horned cattle” questions were prompted by news that in future whilst in October 1854 the Argus advertised the sale Beef Shorthorns will be shown together with Poll of a station out of Geelong, saying that it and Australian Shorthorns at the Melbourne Royal. “will be sold with about 3000 head of cattle, So will end more than 150 years of Beef Shorthorns 2000 of which have been bred with great care, and being exhibited as a distinct breed at Melbourne. It there are purebred Durhams amongst the lot.” follows recent similar changes at the Sydney Easter Show and the Royal Adelaide Show. It does not In the same year and month, The Argus advertised mean, of course, that Beef Shorthorns will not be the sale of the Champions of the overall Shorthorn exhibition. “90 pure Durham bulls, from the herd of But there can be no denying that it will be different. Thomas Manifold Esq.” The Beef Shorthorn breed and the Beef Shorthorn The sale was to take place ‘the day after the Society have much of which to be very proud. Exhibition’. Cattle breeds come and go. Few survive the The Age of 24 October 1856 reported the first definite initial enthusiasm (and money) of a small number Beef Shorthorn Champions at a Melbourne Show. of breeders. Not so with Beef Shorthorns. Our Robert M’Dougalls’ Lord Nelson, a ‘roan Durham’, breed’s involvement in the Melbourne Royal is part was the Champion bull and Rose of May was the of its grand history; and now is a good time to say Champion cow. The reporter was very critical of the something about it – looking to the early days and to judge’s work, stating that an English imported bull, OUR HISTORY “LONG AND MERITORIOUS” Lord Raglan1, should have won, likewise Aurora, a has done so much in the direction of placing Victoria cow which finished only third in her class. Then, as in her present premier stock-breeding position, all now, judges rarely seem to get it right! will hail with the greatest satisfaction the enterprise In 1856, also, the Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer of the Messrs Robertson, in purchasing this famous reported the importation of Beef Shorthorns, stating herd unbroken.” that “We had the pleasure yesterday of The pedigrees of both Earl of Geneva and Oxford inspecting two bulls and two heifers imported by Cherry Duke can also be found in Volume 1 of the Mr Younghusband MLC. The animals appeared Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia, again reinforcing generally to be of a very fine description. They are the link with the past3. of the Durham Shorthorn breed.” 2 Coates’s Herd Book 16868. SHBA vol 1 p213. 3 Earl of Geneva, Coates’s Herd Book 31068, SHBA vol 1 p118. Oxford 1 Coates’s Herd Book 13241. See Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia Cherry Duke, Coates’s Herd Book 32016, SHBA vol 1 p 189. (SHBA), Vol 1 p167. The article set out the breeding of the cattle, all of The average annual rate of inflation in England in the which had Coates’s Herd Book pedigrees. 145 years since 1875 means that what could be More Beef Shorthorn Champions can be identified bought for £1 in 1875 would cost £116.50 today. from those early years. The Age of 13 November So the amount paid for Oxford Cherry Duke in 1875 1863 reported that the best bull of the Port Phillip would be absolutely enormous in today’s money – Farmers’ Society Show was the imported Royal hundreds of thousands of pounds, let alone dollars. Hope; and that the Champion cow was April And so we come to the Spring Exhibition of 1877. Flowers. The pedigree of Royal Hope, a bull calved The Age of 8 November 1877 reported that in England in 1858, can be found in Volume 1 of “Shorthorn cattle were numerously and well the Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia2.
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