fully one thousand head in the possession of a single 

 individual. These tribes are, as a rule, unwilhng to 

 sell their cattle at the present time, but as their ever 

 growing need for the commodities of civilisation, 

 increase, so these needs can only be supplied by the 

 conversion of their herds into coin of the realm, and 

 this process is already in course of fulfilment. At 

 present many of the cattle available at public auctions 

 are brought from Jubaland and the Abysinnian bor- 

 der by Somali traders, and in certain districts these 

 cattle thrive well, although very susceptible to East 

 Coast Fever. 



SUITABILITY As already indicated, the native cow is admir- 



FOR GRADING, ably adapted to grading. The offspring of the pure 

 bred bull and native cow as often as not so resembles, 

 its male parent as to be almost indistinguishable from 

 those of pure breeding. The shoulder hump has 

 gone; so too the drooping quarter; the ribs are well 

 arched and evenly covered with flesh; whilst, if the 

 sire belongs to a milking breed, the yield of milk is 

 three, four, and even six times as great as that given 

 by the dam. Nor is it one pure breed only which 

 stamps its characteristics upon the offspring; practi- 

 cally all that have been tried in the colony have 

 shewn this prepotency to a marked extent. In herds 

 in which a Shorthorn bull is used, the young stock — 

 even of the first cross — are Shorthorns in make and 

 shape, an occasional example of unorthodox colour- 

 ing alone indicating descent from a breed in which 

 almost every variety of hue is to be found. The im- 

 proved dairy qualities of the half bred are nothing 

 short of marvellous. The quality of the milk given 

 by the native cow is so remarkably rich — containing 

 something like six per cent of butter fat — that the 

 enormously increased bulk yielded by the graded 

 animal will still shew an excellent analysis, and, 

 more than this, the lactation period frequently lasts 

 until the cow is again near to calving. 



VALUE OF 

 DAIRY 



Hitherto a ready market has existed within the 

 colony for all the butter and cheese which could be 

 produced, whilst the demand for milk in Nairobi, 

 PRODUCE. Nakuru and elsewhere steadily increases. An up- 



to-date creamery at Lumbwa affords an outlet for 

 the cream produced in those districts too far re- 

 moved from the centres of population to profit by 



