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building up and increasing your herd you 

 must be interviewing- the steamship owners 

 and arranging for the transport home of the 

 meat (do not ship live cattle) and for their 

 giving you cold storage, &c. ; making these 

 arrangements ahead will enable you, when 

 ready, to launch forth without delay or loss to 

 anyone. Of course there is much to be 

 done, but there are also years to do it in, 

 and it is wonderful what you can do in 

 ten years provided you know at the start 

 that you are going to do it. For these 

 reasons, therefore, we suggest and it is only 

 a suggestion, for we cannot now give more 

 reliable data and figures that every would-be 

 planter of coco-nuts on a large scale should 

 consider the matter and sum up the costs and 

 profits, the pros and cons of breeding and 

 fattening cattle, hogs, &c., on their estates 

 before casting the proposal aside. Of course 

 the idea refers only to such estates as have 

 or can grow the necessary herbage, and where 

 the owner can get the cattle down to the port 

 at a remunerative price and in good shipping 

 order, not heated and fagged on account of a 

 forced march overland. When such conditions 

 do exist, as they do at several centres, planters 

 can seriously consider the question of utilizing 

 cattle as a permanent " catch or subsidiary 

 crop " on coco-nut estates. 



