ample supplies of heavy timber, such as cedar, podo- 

 carpus, olive, etc. 



The Masai, Nandi, and Lumbwa tribes furnish i,\bour. 

 herds, and attendants for stock farmers, while agri- 

 cultural labourers are obtained from the Wakavirondo, 

 Wakikuyu and Wameru natives. 



Grade and Native Cattle have proven highly i.ivestock- 

 successful and in the former both milch and beef 

 stock are well represented. The milk is rich in quality 

 and the yield plentiful, so that dairying is highly 

 remunerative. Sheep are commanding attention, and 

 the percentage of lambing and prices realized for wool 

 have been highly satisf acton,'. Horses, mules, 

 donkeys, goats, fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, etc., 

 are greatly in favour, and there should be a bi;g future 

 for all of these. 



Grazing is particularly rich, and the feed varied, crazing. 

 consequently a large amount of stock can be carried 

 to the acre. The success of lucerne on the Lake shore 

 increases the possibilities enormously, and what com- 

 prises amongst the best natural grazing in Ivast 

 Africa, gains from lucerne and proximity to the rail- 

 way a special value, which cannot be found in many 

 places elsewhere. 



In addition to mealies and lucerne, — beans, and STAPLE 

 various cereals have succeeded, and mauigel wurzel.s products. 

 have yielded heavy crops at about 6,500 ft. altitude. 

 But broadly speaking, Naivasha District is principally 

 devoted to stock farming at present. 



Adjacent to the district the forest country of game. 

 the Aberdares and the Man provides a variety of 

 big game, such as Elephant, Rhino, Bufifalo, Lion, 

 Leopard, Bongo, etc., iDut these are some few days 

 away, and with the exception of lion and leopard, are 

 seldom if ever seen in the vicinity of fanns. In 

 earlier days, ravages by the larger carnivora among 

 stock were frequent, but closer settlement, sportsmen, 

 traps and poison, have thinned out the lions and 

 leopards, until the appearance of either is a "seven 

 days wonder" in local circles. On the plains game is 

 confined to various antelope, such as hartebeeste, 

 waterbuck. Grants gazelle, Thompson's gazelle, bush 

 and reed buck, klipspringer and dik dik (on the foot- 



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