150 SOUTH AFRICAN A(;RU I'LTURE : AN ANAI,^■SIS. 



lb. Wihie. 



1857 870 iio 



1867 43,348 £4.985 



1877 1,429,045 £116,382 



1887 8,756,116 £268.446 



1897 12,055,390 £676.644 



1907 19-125,425 ^914-597 



1913 18,523,197 £876.255 



The stagnation observed with regard to the production of 

 wool in the nineties is e(|nally apjjarent in the case of mohair 

 during: the same vears. 



The exports were : — 



1891 10,183.752 lb. 



1895 10,354.870 lb. 



1899 12,844,454 lb. 



T901 10.615.948 lb. 



In 1865, when our exportation amounted to 9.609 lbs., Tur- 

 key exported to the United Kingdom 2,421.188 lbs. By 1887 we 

 exported to the United Kingdom more than Turkey did — 

 8.756,116 lbs., as against 6,714,816 lbs. — and since then the 

 Turkish export only twice exceeded our own — in 1895 and 1898. 

 Since 1907 we have been sending to the United Kingdom nearly 

 twice as much as Turkey, and we have maintained this lead, 

 though average Turkish mohair still commands alxjut 2d. to 3d. 

 per lb. more than ours. We do not find in mohair the excep- 

 tional advance in the last decade which obtained in regard to 

 the other pastoral industries I have mentioned ; but mohair is 

 an article for which there is a limited demand, and the stimulus 

 to production, after the Anglo-Boer War, in the case of wool, 

 dairy ])roduce, and ostricli feathers became (|uicscent so soon as 

 w^e reached the limit of successful competition with Turkey for 

 the world's consumption of aljont 30.000.000 lbs. per annum, of 

 which we jjroducc more than half. 



Maize w^e alwavs ])r()duced in sufficient ([uantity for local 

 consumption, but when trial shipments indicated that there was 

 a profitable market oversea, production increased. We exported 

 in : — 



1907 4''H.04i muids. 



1908 464.485 



1909 1.551,187 



T910 . . 1.760,208 „ 



Then \ears of drought set in. and exportation gradually 

 dropped to 234.676 muids in 1913, while in 19x4 it again rose 

 to 1. 1 56. 247 muids. 



Our ])roduction in 1904 was 3,611,588 muids. and accord- 

 ing to the last census it was 8.632,516 muids in T910; and this 

 vear it is reliably estimated at over 10,000,000 muids. 



In 1891 the Cape of Good Hope produced 909,163 muids 

 of wheat and 603.377 nnu'ds of oats. (Statistics are not availal)le 



