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cattle breeding, Africander, Polled Annus. Shorthorn, Fries- 

 laud. Djevon, Sussex, and Hereford bulls were brought in with 

 more or Less success. 



Encouraging results have attended the efforts of those in- 

 terested in sheep-raising in Rhodesia. Where the soil and pas- 

 ture is suitable, the Merino breed is being bred and reared most 

 successfully. Exhaustive trials have been conducted, and it may 

 now be confidently asserted that so long as high-class sheep 

 are used, the future of the sheep-raising industry is safe. Sheep 

 are proving more profitable than other classes of stock, on 

 account of the excellent prices which can be made for the wool. 



The Liebig ranch is on the Mazunga, the home station being 

 between thirty and forty miles from Messina drift on the 

 Limpopo, and some 180 miles from Buluwayo. 



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

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

 bulls. Polled Angus and Sussex, these bulls being kept 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 accommodate 600 head ; but the 

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

 paddock is eaten down, the cattle would be moved on to the 

 next, giving the first time to recover. 



The purebred stock are sprayed and not dipped, and every 

 evening are examined for tick and rubbed with tick grease if 

 there are signs of the pest. 



