What the Dip means to the Desert 



we like to recall the words of the late Dr 

 Hutcheon, set down eight years ago in the 

 following letter, which is worthy of permanent 

 record in the pages of this volume. 



"Natal Agricultural Union, 



" 12 Timber Street, Pietermaritzburg, 



" 28th October 1905 



"The Honourable Joseph Baynes, M.L.C., 

 "Nels Rust. 



"Dear Sir, — I am directed by the Union to 

 forward to you an expression of the feeling of 

 the Inter-Colonial Agricultural Union, which 

 met in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday and 

 Thursday last, regarding your successful work 

 in dipping for the eradication of ticks. 



"The Inter-Colonial Agricultural Union fully 

 discussed the question of dipping, and at 

 the conclusion Doctor Hutcheon, Director of 

 Agriculture at the Cape, moved a vote of 

 thanks to you, coupling with your name that 

 of Mr G. D. Alexander, as being the first to 

 introduce dipping into South Africa, on which 

 account agriculturists owe you a deep debt of 

 gratitude. 



" The vote of thanks was carried with acclama- 

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