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getting round the land difficulty, as this country appears to 

 have great possibilities for wool growing, although, as far as 1 

 know, it does not so far export one bale or even 1 lb. of wool." 



Mr. \V. Sutherland, Ambohijanahary, Ambatondrazaka, 

 Madagascar, writes me that there are scarcely any English 

 cattle-breeders in the country. He says : "There is the Cie 

 Generate Frigorifique a Majunga. The manager is an Aus- 

 tralian, and there are a number of Englishmen and Australians 

 employed there. The cattle are at present nearly all owned by 

 natives, excepting a few owned by Frenchmen. Cattle are still 

 cheap here ; bullocks fattened on manioc, and giving about 

 660 lbs. of meat nett, are selling at £6, while those fattened on 

 grass, and giving about 440 lbs. of meat, sell at about £4." 



Other French colonies from which supplies of cattle can be 

 procured, and where they are only awaiting good modern 

 methods to increase in numbers and quality, are Algeria, Cam- 

 boa, and Senegal. 



There is a freezing plant, known as the Lyndiane works, in 

 Senegal, on the West Coast of Africa, belonging to the French. 

 During the latter half of 1916, 13,198 quarters of frozen beef 

 were shipped to the French military authorities. The hearts, 

 livers, brains, tongues and kidneys were also frozen and shipped 

 to France in 95 lb. cases. There are great prospects for 

 Senegal when good stud bulls are imported and scientific 

 breeding introduced. 



Mutton Exports to France 



According to a report of the Marseilles Chamber of Commerce, 

 the North African colonies, Algeria and Tunis, exported to 

 France supplies of mutton estimated as follows : 1909, 

 1,120,729 sheep; 1910, 1,256,908; 1911, 968,304; 1912, 

 812,865 ; 1913, 1,286,985 ; giving a total of 5,445,791. This 

 makes an average of 1,089,158 sheep per year. During the 

 war the exports were: 1914, 711,126; 1915, 1,176,412; 

 1916, 861,695; 1917, 659,136; 1918, 300,000; totalling 

 3,708,369 sheep. This gives an average of 741,673 sheep per 



