I find that the more the\' are kept in the open and 

 away from sheds the less hable cows and calves are 

 to disease. None of our purebred bulls get any feed 

 other than their mother's milk and grazing \mtil they 

 are about twelve months old, and then only for a 

 month or two before our annual sale, when they are 

 fed on mealie meal, grass hay and a little lucerne 

 and are allowed to graze out all day. Very often 

 they have only had mealie meal and grass haj' — 

 lucerne not being available. This can hardly be 

 termed pampering. It is such feed as any settler 

 could afford to give a purebred bull — mealie meal and 

 grass hay night and morning — and that most likely 

 to give the best results. 



Sheep and other animals on the Farm are TRE.vrMENT 

 similarly treated. Young purebred Merino rams get Qp sheep 

 a little crushed maize night and morning for a couple p-rc. 

 of months before the annual sale, and the Merino 

 ewes get crushed maize while the tupping season is 

 on — which lasts for six weeks at a time. 



There can be no question of the part the Farm i\fi,ue.\ce 

 has played in brin.ging the stock industry of the ,,p -^-he 

 Protectorate to its present stage, even after due i.-\rji. 

 allowance has been made for the enterprise of those 

 settlers who have also iniported stock. I hope that 

 in the fut\ire the Farm will do even more go k1 by 

 increa.sed importations of high (juality stock, and \)y 

 doing S(j enable the settler to obtain acclimatized 

 animals cheaper than they could import. Although 

 no animal is put up at the annual sale without 

 reserve, bidding is generally very brisk and the 

 prices paid are comparatively high. Proof of the 

 desire of the Department to help forward the stock 

 industr\' is the fact that the proceeds of the last sale 

 liave been devoted to the importation of more pure- 

 bred bulls -a policy that I trust will be continued, 

 as it will ])rove of great benefit to the countr>'. 



The Farm is roughly 4,500 acres in extent, and schedule of 

 at present carries the follo^^^ng stock : — STOCK. 



Cattle, as already enumerated ... 396 



Sheep, both pure and grade ... ... 3,300 



Pure Angora and Grade Angora Goats 320 



Pure Catalonian Jackass ... ... i 



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