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a diet of prickly pear and hicerne hay, were over a year without 

 drinkino' water, the water requirements ot the animals having- been 

 fully met by that contained in the prickly pear. 



Conclusion. 

 The report outlined above is signed by Messrs. Heinrich 

 S. du Toit (chairman), S. M. Gadd, G. A. Kolbe, Arthur Stead, 

 R. J. van Reenen, and R. A. B. Mussman (secretary). The Commis- 

 sion is still pursuing its investigations. In the meantime it has 

 disclosed a state of affairs that should arrest the attention of every 

 South African, for it calls for immediate action in removing the 

 causes that threaten the extinction of the land which we have received 

 from our forefathers and i)redecessors, and must deliver to our 

 children and successors. The soil belongs to the nation, not the indi- 

 vidual, and its dissipation through erosion is a national calamity that 

 demands tlie aid of everv one to (•(»mba+ it. 



iJ-'/into hy (t. L. Jmiicc, Onderxteduorns 



Wheat Giio\viN(4 on the Zak IIivee, Cape Province. 



I'hotograph showing thrashiug operations — steam driven — and in the background a 



chaff stack of over 52 feet in height, from about 3500 bags of wheat. 



Plant Nurseries in Quarantine as at 1st July, 1922. 



