Show raEnE WIlEnE nURSES A AC 1 No Noone one can buy a horse in this city says the Washington Star which is It for any purpose for less than A down broken-down car horse horle is worth nearly this amount A horse for a grocers grocer's cart in New York Chicago or San Francisco will cost from 15 to zoo ao In Queensland Australia however the horse hone market is sway away w j down A sound lound broken well animal imal can be bought for 5 Farmers warmers in the in interior interior in- in te nor can not afford to send horses to Brisbane for or sale because ordinary ordinary ordin ordin- a ary ry stock will not bring more than a ahead head They shoot them n- n stead tead I And And- what is still more mere startling starting startling start start- ling ing they pay at the rate of 62 cents cent s a ahead head for far having them shut shot Alf All Al All of f these statements are strictly cor- cor The colony of Queensland nd i inow is isnow isow s now ow seriously discussing the advisability of passing a a. law lore imposing a a a. tax on all al stallions and authorizing g gc the he appointment of inspectors to se see c that hat all unlicensed animals ar are killed kille ill Queensland over they are going to o keep down horses as we keep d down wn the superabundance of dogs i in inthe n the he city cHy of Washington Horse Hors breeding in Australia was for man many years rs a remunerative business Ae A great dem demand nd was created by th the e taking aking up and occupying of of new w country from the opening up p of tb the e n new ew gold fields and for the prosecution pro- pro s of the sugar industry Those hose who had land began breedi ig lg horses Now Nor the demand has ceased the he sugar industry is declining the he mining is stationary and th the e owners of what was formerly ne new w country are sellers instead of buy- buy e ers rs The consequence is that the else whole holt country is II overrun with un- un salable horses They can not b be e eaten like sheep and cattle and a b oiling down factory tory for or the man- man u facture of glue and ind other products foiled after consuming animals Now in a wild semi-wild state they hey over overrun n the entire interior o of the he colony The best of them 13 I I Ir or r 14 a doxen Property holders in n New South Wales have bave relieved relieve themselves of the burden den on their Sensing grazing lands b by br shooting th them m. m On the Barwon river within two years seventy between sixty thousand and seventy thousand head were destroyed at a acost acost cost to their nominal owners o of oft t twenty fire shillings six pence a neon head Queensland has now the same trouble to fight A law entitled The Marsupials Destruction Act Actis is now in force directed against the kangaroos to check the increase o of f the noxious animals But tt a. a kan kangaroos kangaroo's kangaroos kangaroo's skin is worth h. h 75 in th the e open market in Brisbane How much more need is there ther e then for a destruction act when Sync n horses horse are larger animals eat more mar e es are ate more mote numerous n than kangaroos kangaroo s and art au nearly This i is h s the question which is agitating th the e property holders holden of Queensland a atthe at atthe t the site present time as ii is learned earned fro from m the recent bulletin of the department depart depart- sent ment of agriculture of that colon colony Will it pay pay Australians to ship these ship these thes e horses to the United States Th The e passage to San Francisco Franciso will tak take e tw twenty days das The Fanatic ocean a at certain times is almost smooth One of the Australian steamship will wil l probably carry from seven sen hundred d to one thousand horses at a a. trip The import on horses an and mules at present is thirty dollars a D. head It resolves itself into a J Jq q question estion of f water carrage |