148 MOZAMBIQUE 



''Dairy Cattle Register," is 8,500 lb. (850 gal- 

 lons) ; that of the Shorthorn the same. 



The Umbeluzi results are low, but allowance 

 must be made for the fact that dairying opera- 

 tions have only recently been begun. Moreover, 

 the cows are milked only once a day, the calves 

 taking the remainder of the milk. Allowing an 

 addition of 66 per cent, for this, the yearly out- 

 put is increased to 348 gallons per cow. Another 

 dairyman on the same river, crossing principally 

 with Shorthorns, has 30 cows in milk, from which 

 he sells 180 litres a day, milking twice ; equiva- 

 lent to an average of 356 gallons per head per 

 annum. Some of the milk is also taken by the 

 calves. The best races of zebu in Zanzibar 

 (Kathiwar and Sind) yield If gallon ^er diem, 

 equal to 448 gallons, during a milking period of 

 nine months. They are fed on manioc, sesamum, 

 oil-cake, maize, and cut grass. 



There is, of course, but a limited market for 

 milk in Lourenzo Marques. In the United 

 Kingdom the estimated average number of cows 

 per 1,000 of population is 103. According to the 

 "Delagoa Directory," the population of Lourenzo 

 Marques on April 17, 1904, the date of the most 

 recent census, was : European races, 4,691 ; 

 Asiatics, 1,690 ; Africans, 3,468— total, 9,849. 

 Assuming for a basis of calculation that Euro- 



