CHAPTER XV 



CATTLE-BREEDING AND DAIRYING 



Cattle-breeding to the Province of Mozambique 

 may be viewed from two standpoints : that of 

 the breeder in the Lourenzo Marques district, 

 where conditions are somewhat similar to those 

 of South Africa ; and that of the planter in the 

 tropical areas, for whom cattle-breeding would 

 never be more than a subsidiary industry. 



The district of Lourenzo Marques, stretching 

 from the basin of the Limpopo to the frontier 

 of the Great Lebombos, is pre-eminently a 

 grazier's country, and, further, one of the best 

 grazing countries in South Africa. The native 

 pastures never dry up as they do in the high 

 veld ; so with moderate stocking there need be 

 no anxiety about a sufficiency of food in the 

 winter months. There are probably over four 

 million hectares of land on which cattle could 

 be pastured, and, taking the proportion of stock 

 they would carry at the moderate estimate of one 



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