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CONTENTS. 



CHAP. 



XXIV. Wounds ...... 



XXV. Economy and Credit 



XXVI. Destruction of Caentvokous Animals 



XXVII. Land Laws ..... 



XXVIII. Horses and Cattle .... 



XXIX. The Labour Supply 



XXX. Dam-making ..... 



XXXI. Building and Brick-making 



XXXII. Hints on Buying and Hiring Farms 



XXXIII. To Young Englishmen about to Emigrate 



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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Map of British Colonies in South Africa 



The Ostrich (Struthio Camelus) .... 



Heatherton Towers ..... 



Travelling with Birds ..... 



Heatherton Feather-Eoom .... 



The Author's Prize Feathers, as Exhibited at the 

 Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Derby, 

 July, 1881 ...... 



Hen Bird Sitting ..... 



Heatherton Incubating Room .... 



Coolie Feeding Chicks .... 



Bird with Nest ...... 



Birds Drinking at a Dam .... 



Frontispiece. 



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