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Alligator Creek Meatworks is an important historical business in Queensland contributing to processing of food for the growing population and processing meet while the meat and cattle industry expanded the economy of the local area and of Australia with the introduction of meat exportation. [1] Early meatworks included boiling down and preserving.
The interwar period saw the dairy industry expand greatly in Queensland. Between 1927 and 1937 the total number of dairy cattle rose by 50 percent. By the 1930s, dairying was Queensland's most widely spread agricultural industry and the state's second most profitable export industry from 1936 to 1941, accounting for 20% of primary production.
The station was established on Rakkaia tribal lands prior to 1882 and was owned by a Mr Ferguson in 1883 who was fattening cattle on the land at the time. [3] The following year the property was owned by Ferguson, Woods and Co. and sent a mob of 1,700 head of cattle south to market after a good season. [ 4 ]
The station had been abandoned some time prior to 1908 but was taken up again in that year by Messrs Philip, Leahy and Co. who planned to stock the property with 5,000 cattle. [5] Robert Philip sold the station in 1911, at this point the station had an area of 1,200 square miles (3,108 km 2) and was stocked with 3,000 cattle and 120 horses. The ...
Anna Creek homestead Alexandria Station, homestead and outbuildings, Queensland, 1921 Channel Country, home to some of Queensland's largest cattle stations Dunes near Andado Cattle and horses in stockyards at Victoria River Downs circa 1985 Brumbies next to the Innamincka Track Innamincka Station 1910 Donkey team at Wave Hill station, Northern Territory, ca. 1946 Brolgas, Brunette Downs ...
The Lyndhurst pastoral station in Lyndhurst, North Queensland was originally referred to as “the Lyndhurst run” and often referred to as Lyndhurst Station. It was established in approximately 1863 by Mr Barnes and John Fulford. [1] The property bred prize-winning Hereford cattle and has an important place in Australia's early history. [1]