Mornings are fine as a rule; raiu onh' starting about 

 mid-day. 



The land rises in rolling hills from S,ooo feet at (;KN'ERAr 

 the Railway Station to about 10,000 feet above sea i-e\tures. 

 level at the back of the district, which is pre-eminently 

 suited to stock and dairy farming, though European 

 cereals of all sorts may be grown with success, as 

 also vegetables. The land is well watered with 

 permanent and shady streams, which for the most 

 part have a rocky bottom. The district is shut 

 in by forests, and has no native reserve in close 

 proximity. This, from the stock farming point of 

 view, is an important consideration, as though a 

 valuable adjunct to a plantation or an agricultural 

 district, a native reserve may prove a serious menace 

 to a stock country owing to the liability of native 

 stock carrying disease into the settlers' herds. The 

 supph' of native labour is, however, ample for the 

 needs of the farmers. 



At Molo, the Caravan Road runs with the Rail- stock disease 

 way. There are two cattle dips close to the road safeguards. 

 and others at the back of the district. Practically 

 all the cattle in Molo are doubly inoculated for 

 rinderpest, and only immune beasts are used for 

 station transport work, so that the risk of any serious 

 outbreak of infectious disease among cattle is re- 

 duced to the mitiimum. 



It is indeed a treat to visit the farms here and see dairying and 

 the herds of grade cattle and sheep. Molo being so stock 

 excellently adapted to dairy work, the majority of raising. 

 settlers are crossing the native cattle with the 

 recognised milk breeds, and of these the Shorthorn 

 easily leads the way in local favour, though there are 

 advocates of the Ayreshire, while the beef breeders 

 use the Hereford. The high quality of Molo grade 

 stock is borne testimony to by the fact that many 

 down-country breeders pay high prices for it, and 

 many head leave the district each year. Pure bred 

 bulls of high quality, and in man}' cases animals 

 imported from England, are in use on the farms. 

 A few of the settlers have imported pure bred cows 

 and heifers, which are doing very well, and fully 

 justify the high expectations of their owners. 



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