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Guinea and Mauritius grasses for sale to the proprietors of 

 horses and cattle in the towns. 



In southern Brazil there is quite a large cattle industry 

 (including dairying) upon the drier country of the plateau 

 (p. 10), where the beasts feed chiefly upon the natural grass. 

 Pigs are also raised in large numbers. 



In the more equatorial countries, one of the great wants is 

 that of proper grazing land ; the cattle get a little grazing on 

 the dry paddy fields after the crop is cut, and are usually turned 

 out more or less untended to graze where they can, but real 

 pasture land is almost unknown. In India they are usually 

 grazed in the fields, or among the trees upon crown forest lands, 

 under charge of small boys. But a very real want in all the 

 more equatorial countries is pasture land, and much improve- 

 ment of cattle cannot be taken in hand unless the question of 

 proper feeding is at the same time solved. 



