158 THE WORLD'S MEAT FUTURE 



The Liebig Ranch is on the Maziiiiga, the home station being- 

 between thirty and forty miles from the Messina drift on the 

 Limpopo, and some 180 miles from Bulawayo. 



There are 28,000 head on the Liebig ranch, and the selected 

 mobs of cows have the service of a fine nnmber of pure-bred 

 bulls. Polled Angus and Sussex, these bulls being ke})t at their 

 home stations to save them from walking the veld with the herds. 

 The increase is given at 70 per cent., which is regarded as most 

 satisfactory; and, as the grazing capacity is placed at twenty 

 acres per beast, the carrying capacity of the ranch is 50,000. 

 As this number would soon be reached, it is obvious that a large 

 percentage must move off each year 



The Mazunga Ranch pins its faith to Polled Angus and Sussex, 

 and makes quicker use of the pure breeds, and more use of 

 Colonial cows to speed up the grade. The custom is to put an 

 imported bull, when acclimatised, to sixty cows, while an 

 Afrikander will serve thirty ; but the imported bull will be fed 

 at the stables, and the food will consist of greenstuff, bran and 

 oil-cake from the Salisbury monkey-nut oil factory, together with 

 one of the "Oxo" by-products, 



A system of paddocking is in vogue at Mazunga, which fences 

 off paddocks of 4000 acres to acconnnodate 600 head ; but the cost 

 of wire has arrested the construction. As one fenced-in paddock 

 is eaten dowoi, the cattle would be moved on to the next, giving 

 the first time to recover. 



The pure-bred stock are sprayed and not dipped, and every 

 evening are examined for ticks and rubbed with tick grease, if 

 there are signs of the pest. 



Nearly, if not all disease, is insect borne, and it is now 

 realised "that to preserve the cattle from inroads of disease, dips 

 must be constructed and used frequently. Undoubtedly, the 

 crossbred, or pure, cattle will be more subject to local maladies 

 than are the native female parent stock. But in Argentina, 

 Queensland, and the Southern States of the Union, this difficulty 

 has been largely overcome by careful dipping. IMost of the 

 cattle-breeding districts of Southern Rhodesia are at an elevation 

 of from 3000 ft. to 4000 ft., which gives them an advantage 

 over similar lands in other countries situated in the same 

 latitude. 



Cattle cannot yet be run in large mobs. Usually, mobs 

 of 200 to 300 are found to be as large as the herdsman can 

 manage, especially as the herding is done on foot. Horse 



