Quartpot got boiled and tea was made

A Quartpot was used by Drovers and station workers(Cowboys were cow milkers and gardeners in Australia in the 50s) in the country and the bush of Australia...It had a pouch attached to your saddle.
And if a drover didn't boil his billy it was his Quartpot instead on "Dinner camp" at 12 noon....when your 1000 head of cattle would rest in the heat of the day....We held em of a night with a single barbed wire at beast pizzle height...if they rushed (stampeded) at midnight you'd have to follow the tracks next day to muster em up...
Don Johnson

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1955 flood

The good old days in Dirran town....
Back when the world was young....
Like lots of kids I had a horse the brown....
The house smoke bucket used his dung....
The mossies were in millions there ...
Just after the 55 flood....
The school smoke bucket fire would flare....
While the mossies called for blood.....
The sandflys too in Dirran town ....
Drove horses and cattle mad....
They trotted all the day around....
Smoke fires were all they had.....
Don Johnson....
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Poisons were used to fight poison
If you got bit by a brown snake in Australia before 1950 (Much more deadly venomous than a Cobra) you applied a tornaquet above the bite.
You opened the bite area and sucked on it and spat it out , made it bleed to get rid of the venom, you also applied bushmen style a few grains of Condys crystal poison to the bite opened area, one poison to offset another they said. Condys baths are still used by the the nursing homes. 1960s Ringbarkers soaked their blistered hands in condys to harden the hide to keep working with an axe . Ringbarkers learned to use a round flat oil stone to make the axe blade razor sharp, needed to cut through the bark into the sap at a 45 degree angle , the cuts must meet in the sap to kill the tree
In the early 1900s medicine was touch and go.
Poisons nasty drugs so deadly all were used by the medico. Arsenic still works on White Ants, it goes through them all as they eat the poisoned dead, till they run out of ants. Puff a bit of arsenic into an opened wall panel where the ants are working and reseal it, it will work!
So Joe White about 1900 a Bushman Tracker, Dingo trapper runner of Brumbies and Scrubber cattle had his own remedy Arsenic Bluestone and axle grease to mix and bind it together. The Arsenic poison might kill a cancer? the bluestone would burn it out!, as used by old time horsemen to remove dead proud flesh from a horse or beast , sounds logical? And it seemed to work too!
It was known to kill skin cancer on a man or beast, and did, also killed Swamp cancer a large area under the horses stomach where worms were breaking through the hide, horses die of this one becoming walking skeletons. Used on setfasts on a horses back where proud flesh had hardened and caused irritation to the horse when a saddle was on the horses back. So it would take some time for the wound to heal afterwards left raw by the mixture but cleaned out. It was 1900 to 1950 and it was all they had 
My sister Diana was bitten by a funnel web spider in 1953 on the Moonie Highway and my dad opened each of the 8 punctre holes, sucked the venom out and his throat swelled up, Don applied a grain of Condys to each hole, they went to Surat, no Doctor there, finally the Ambulance man checked Diana and said there was nothing more to be done. She survived on Condys treatment ?
Don Johnson 21-may-10

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