MADAGASCAR 



The French Island of Madagascar lies off the coast of East 

 Africa, and runs 1000 miles north and south, with a breadth 

 up to 360 miles. It is 226,000 square miles in extent, and is 

 mostly mountainous country, from 3000 to 5000 feet high, 

 with healthy, well-grassed undulating valleys and low hills. 

 Madagascar has large herds of cattle (the tax paid by the 



SoiSSOXXAIS AND RAMBOUILLET RAMS 



Held together by "Tanosy" shepherd. 



natives some years back was on 5,000,000 head) and it is an 

 ideal country for cattle -raising. The herds number fully seven 

 millions at present, and beef is already being exported. In 

 a few years France could, by the importation of stud bulls, 

 enormously increase not only the numbers, but the weight of 

 the present stock, and, without trouble, fill the gaps in their 

 own meat supply by beef from this beautiful island of theirs. 

 Any visitors to Madagascar must be impressed with the 

 richness of the grasses, not only in the numerous valleys, 

 but on the hills. Burnt year after year by big fires, it 



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