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then the season of cold, drought and we are Borry to 

 have to add insufficient comfort and protection arrives, 

 and the stock lose flesh, and how often do they succumb ! 



The valuable veldt grasses on many large farms grow at 

 a quicker rate than the stock can eat them off. It seeds 

 and becomes hard, and is usually burned off. This super- 

 abundance should be mown while still green and made into 

 silage, to be fed when other food is scarce. 



It appears, then, that South Africa, with its year nearly 

 equally divided between periods of rain and drought, 

 should have been one of the first countries to take 

 up Ensilage largely, for it would be difficult to find another 

 country Avhere such a great necessity exists or where such 

 national benefits could be derived from its more general 

 introduction. 



