milk selling, and as soon as others are equipped and 

 the produce properly graded and packed, there is 

 no reason why a remunerative export trade should 

 not be established. Later on, when cold storage 

 facilities are provided, B.E.A. should also play a 

 prominent part in making up the great shortage of 

 beef which is steadily becoming more acute in 

 not be very near, but it is bound to come as soon as 

 Europe. The day when beef will be exported may 

 one or other of the great meat importing firms at 

 home realizes the vast possibilities at present lying 

 dormant in the native reserves. 



Having set forth some of the many facilities for difficulties 

 cattle farming in B.E.A., it is only fair that the attending 

 drawbacks and difficulties should be examined, cattle breed- 

 That these exist will be readily admitted by every ING. 

 settler, but serious although some of them may 

 appear at first sight, there is not a cattle farmer in 

 the country who is in any way discouraged by them. 

 First and foremost among the drawbacks must be 

 placed the long list of diseases endemic to the Pro- 

 tectorate. They make a formidable array — although 

 many of them, as for example rinderpest and pleuro- 

 pneumonia, appear in so attenuated a form as to be 

 far less harmful than the same complaints elsewhere. 

 Perhaps the most prevalent disease of all is East g-c-r coast 

 Coast Fever, which is endemic over large areas, but pgygj, 

 not in the Great Rift Valley, which has, in con- 

 sequence, come to be the headquarters of cattle 

 breeding. Heavy losses were formerly caused by this 

 disease, but they have steadily been decreasing since 

 the introduction of dipping, and dipping tanks have 

 during recent years been installed throughout the 

 country. Rinderpest has lost the terrors it formerly 

 had since the Government Veterinary Department has 

 pro\aded the means for inoculation with virulent 

 blood and serum. The same Department provides 

 effective sera for preventing the spread or the occa- 

 sional outbreaks of Black Leg, Anthrax and the Colon 

 Bacillus which have occurred in various districts. A 

 magnificently equipped laboratory, possessing a staff 

 of highly trained and enthusiastic scientists is ever 

 ready to assist the settler to diagnose and, if possible GOVERNMENT 

 cure, free of charge, any complaint which makes its -^SSIST.ance. 

 appearance amongst his stock — a privilege of which 

 the settler makes full use. Contagious abortion is 



