A PLAGUE OF HORSES
"While Europe is short of horses, Queensland, in Australia, is plagued with them," savs the-"Children's Paper. "Till) 'brumbies" of Queensland are horses that have run wild on the.dnrge station?, finding their own food, and breeding in herds without the kelp oi man. ' ' • . "During the years of the war, when the men on the stations went out to iißht. and tew hands were left to do the work', the brumbies increased to such an extent that they are now -not- worth catching, breaking, nnd-selling.;'At a recent sale, the hip-host price obtained lor ti 'brumbio.was eight shillings. "In order to. clear the land for cattlebreeding, the station-owners are eußaging men to hunt down the herds of wild horses and destroy them."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 263, 2 August 1919, Page 11
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123A PLAGUE OF HORSES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 263, 2 August 1919, Page 11
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