The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04
American Sheep in Australia.

f.. n BisSell of Shoreham arrived home
from Australia on Tuesday morning. 1t
will he remembered that he started thith-
er in December last, with one hundred
Mernos the property of himself, DIR:
Prime of Brandon and Chas. K. Witherel
of Cornwall. He reached Sydney on the
18th Of February, remained two weeks and
then came home. His sheep We're put III
quarantine and he was not allowed to see
them again. They will be kept there 81
days. dipped in a mixture of tobacco and
sulphur and at the expiration Of 30 days
will he turned over to Bissell X Co. agent.
The latter has been instructed to place
them on II ranch and keep them till the ex-
element over the scab dies out and then sell
them. Mr.. Blssell believes they will ulti-
mately command good figures.
From conversations with Mr.. Bissell and
files of Australian papers brought by him,
we are enabled to give the reasons for the
embargo ON American sheep. l. ST August
VIM g. Markham of Avon, n. y, reached
Australia with 200 sheep, ll6 rams and 80
ewes, bought principally in this county.
| Among them, however, We're eight head
purchased in California. These are be-
| lieved to have caused all the trouble. The
sheep were quarantined and subjected TO
| the usual treatment. with the exception
that an anti-scab preparation WAS employed
instead of the old-fashioned remedy, sui
phur and tobacco In November they were
offered for sale IN Sydney. but not being
disposed Of We're removed to Errowang-
bang station, near Carcoar, owned by IA. q,
| LomaX On the 18th of February Mr.. Lo-
max discovered that the animals had the
scab and reported the fact to the govern
ment. Great excitement ensued. The mat
| ter Was discussed in the papers, al meet
| ings of sheep men, in Parliament and by
the governors cabinet. All Vermont sheep
including those shipped last summer by
i. ,.ll. Inc, ..,t.. IL
and those still IN quarantine were placed III
care of special constables. As the outcome OF
this agitation Mr.. Markham's sheepwere all
| destI Dyed. and 1--WE quote from the Sydney
| uOrHiHq HraId of February 22) the wool
shed in which the sheep had been housed IA
night, with all the yards, huts and other
improvements in the paddock, We're III
completely destroyed by fire, AS we'll AS ev
erything likely to spread the contagion
The clothes of the men engaged III the op
GRAFTON We're afterwards burnt All the
roads oyer which the sheep had passed wert
quarantned. Mr.. Bissell thinks. from wha
he could learn in talking with members OF
Parliament. that Mr. Markham will be paiC
part of the value Cf his sheep. On the 22c
of February was published Il proclamation
: by his Excellency the Right Honorabl,
Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer
| LOTUS, Knight Grand Cross of the Mos
Honorable Order of the Bath, member o.
Her Maiesty's Most Honorable Prlvy Coun
ell, Governor and Commander-in- chiet o
the Colony of New South Wa les and it
dependencies" prohibiting the importation
; for two years from January ". 1884, of nm.
a stock. fodder or fittings, but exceptin,
- sheep shipped from America before the is
| suing of the proclamation.
Judging from the editorials in their pa
pers, the Australians are an eXcitable an,
/ preiudiced lot. In speaking of the scah
? they take occasion to declare that Ameri
b can sheep are good for nothing, The out
= break of the scab seems almost to hav
:. created IA panic. so that they could not con
slider the subject calmly. Ii is II year
. since the disease has appeared in the col
| onies