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Shakei, six years old. Then I saw a younger one, three years 

 old, called iLn Khalifa, and next a gigantic buffalo bull. 



A group of very pretty three-year-old cows by Ibn Shakei 

 quite took my fancy. A buffalo cow of enormous proportions 

 came next; this cow gives four gallons of milk per day, with 8 

 per cent, butter fat. I finished up the cattle by a view of several 

 beautiful young calves, showing what vast improvement can be 

 made in the native stock by judicious breeding. 



The Soudan also promises to be a good country for cattle, and 

 a port now in existence in the Red Sea will give it an outlet for 

 the exports of live stock and later on for frozen meat. There 

 are great opportunities for the cattle industry on the Nile. 



NIGERIA. 



It is now some three years since the immense cattle reserves 

 existing in Nigeria began to be discovered and appreciated. 

 This appreciation first came to a man who travelled two and a 

 half years in the cattle regions of Nigeria and a short way over 

 the borders into French, and what was previously German, 

 colonies. This was Mr. Speed, a man of wide experience, who 

 not only carefully collected data from interviews with residents, 

 district officials, and the more important chiefs, but also put his 

 observations to the test in a practical way. He found that there 

 were not less than five million head of cattle. Besides Sir 

 Frederick Lugard, the Governor-General, IMr. Speed saw Mr. 



