OSTRICH FARMING IN SOUTH AFRIOA.
OSTRIOH FARMING
IN
SOUTH AFRIOA.
BEING AN ACCOUNT OF
Its Origin and Rise; How to Bet about it;
The Profits to be derived; How to Manage the Birds;
The Capital required; the Diseases anfl Di/liauZtie.
to be met with, &la. cia.
BY
ARTHUR DOUGLASS,
IMlRtorcmcIPGtetVeeoj tMIIBolip1l" ImCI otJUIf'Qatnc"IftCltIbaton;MecIaUYt oJtu
Boai4Ui,'.Aoolimatdion. PMieIfttenlG~ B~.
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•
OA.SSELL, PETTER, GA.LPIN &;
CO.•
LONDON, P.4.1JJ8 , NEW" YORK;
PREFACE.
IN undertakingto write on " Ostrich Farming in South Mrica,lJ I have done so at the urgent solicitations of friends, and in responseto the numerous letters addressed to me from all parts of the world asking if any such work were to be had. Inpresenting it to the public, I do so knowing that many imperfections will be found.
As a literary production, written at broken intervals in the midst of a busy life, it is necessarily far from perfect.
As the first work of its kind ever published. it is no doubt far from exhaustive; but, such as it is, we present itto our fellow-colonists. intending emigrants, and others, as an honest attemptto help others on the road we have travelled ourselves, and to forward the best interests of the Colony of our adoption and affection.
ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE,
15, STRAND, LONDON.
JUM 22, 1881.
CONTENTS.
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XXVII. LuDLAws. 190
XXVIII. HoBSJllB AlII'D CA..!r.rLB 200
XXIX. TBBLABOUB SUPPLY 209
xxx. Dd-J[A][ING 218
XXXI. BlJILDING AlII'D BBIOX-:lU.XIXG 227 XXXII. lIm'l'BOlll' BunlII'GAlm1IIB.INGFABKS 233 XXXIII. To YOUNG ElII'GLIBB:ItEN ABOU'J! 'J!OEKm:BA.T.B 240
ILLUSTRATIONS.
MAPOll' BBITISB COLOmESDl'SOUT.ll.AFBJOA.
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FrontiapiUl.
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