In the high parts of the colony and on top of the mountains the disease is unknown, and these are the parts where most of the horses are bred. Where possible there is nothing like having the cattle pen in the fence of a camp, so that the cows go out one side of the fence, and the calves the other. It is purely a disease of the liver and of the digestive organs, and is of course in no way contagious.
The value of the calves will be a minor consideration, while the small number of calves he will have to feed will be the primary concern. Much of the work on the farm is and will continue to be done by local people, and how to manage them successfully can only be learned from experience. 219 the driest riverbed eleven months of the year is a raging torrent the second month; and the capacity of the tank must be immense if intended for irrigation, unless fed by a permanent stream or springs.
But this is the political side of the issue, which the government should pay attention to, by providing every encouragement to the farmer. The greater the slope of the inside of the bank, and the more the cattle are allowed to trample over it, the better. The base should be the width of the top of the bank, with at least an additional 2 feet for each height.
Another mistake commonly made is to suppose that the strength of the embankment depends on the distance the water is thrown back. The farmer must be careful not to make the mistake of measuring the embankment instead of the excavation, otherwise he will pay dearly. Many farmers are deterred by this plan from accepting payments, thinking from the shape of the land that it would be difficult to measure, but if tried, it is very simple.
For the farmer, the quality of the sheds, stables, stables, etc. should be of far greater importance than the quality and size of the dwelling house. The third and fourth are levied annually by the Divisional Councils, and vary according to their wishes, being generally twopence in the pound of the value of the farm. Transfer must take place after payment of the 2nd instalment, as the buyer transfers a mortgage bond as security for payment of the remaining instalments.
But as long as the mortgage required does not exceed half the fair value of the property, it can always be obtained at 7 to 8 per cent, and the mortgagor can feel perfectly at ease. One of the things you should be extremely careful about is that the water supply is really eternal, isn't it. Boundary lawsuits are extremely cumbersome and expensive procedures, and the costs usually exceed the value of the disputed land.
Much of the clothing taken is of too warm a nature, and suitable clothing could have been bought almost as cheaply at the Cape as was required.
ADDENDUM
OSTRICH FARMING
IN SOUTH AFRICA
It gives useful warnings and good advice; to those intending to enter the South African trade, but the prospects it offers are generally exceedingly encouraging,"-MancMsterExaminer. This well-illustrated work contains a great deal of information on birds at various stages of life. Douglass gives hints and advice to young Englishmen intending to emigrate should be read by all who fall into this category:'-Der6y Merctwy.
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Attention to this interesting and profitable industry has been greatly attracted by the exhibition at the recent Royal Agricultural Show, Derby, of the beautiful array of ostrich plumes displayed by the hon. To view these beautiful specimens, His Royal Highness the Prince of Walell rode to the stand, following the horse ring, and was introduced to the exhibitor, who after explaining the collection presented the Prince with a copy of the work on which he had just written. Douglass' book we can testify to the very interesting and instructive way in which he has treated a subject as foreign to English readers, if it is safe to appeal to their sympathetic and speculative nature, for certainly • Ostrich FarmiDg' does not seem to to face fewer problems and difficulties than the more ordinary pursuits of fanners at home and abroad.
Douglass, like a wise man, begins at the beginning, and explains the whole routine and management of an ostrich farm, and the more complicated dangers of the farm • on the system of halves, which seems to take more of the nature of • speculation ' that it is usually associated with animals that • are not involved in the field.'. However, where large profits are to be made, and there is no doubt that large profits have been made, although Mr. into the mysteries of the fence, and the perils attending the early life of the ostrich: we cannot enter here, but may strongly advise the reader to acquaint himself with Mr.
It may be well to point out that the • breeding of ostriches' cannot be regarded as an elementary source of profit, and that it caters to the imagination rather than to the wants of mankind, and yet there is no doubt that it will admit of considerable development before the feather market; is too much stock,"-Der6yCk1"fJtlicle.
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