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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 12975, 14 December 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

Mr Sydney Kidman, the "Cattle King" of Australasia, has written to Mr Fred Fairey, of this city, a very interesting letter, in which toe mention® that he holds ihe world's record for the heaviest bullock, and is now supplying Broken Hill with fifty, bullocks a week, as well as stock for Me/.-, bourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide. Mr Kidman has had as many as 13,000 head of-oattle on the road at one time, all of his-own- fattening, and he tells Mr Fairey that he has just sold 2200 fat bullocks for £10,000, and purchased a station five square miles in area with 30^000 cattle, and 600 Jiorses. In the cattle are. included 14,000 fat b'uSlocks. Every year Mr Kidman has a horse sak at Kapinga, South Australia^ at-Jwhich 2000 hpEses of his own breeding are auctioned,-'