of little plants, not aspan high, rising Sect almost every square 
site of o these piles, whence the stones had been remo 
a kraal, bs the wind isper: the fibrous residue 
parent plants. This was the increase from the seed in the ri: 
pears on the plants when first stacked up a year before. b 
without some difficulty that the proprietor was brought to see the 
probable future of these little villains, and at my earnest solicitation 
ough y f se ar 
reus t up € ads of dry kraal-dung to cover them completely, and 
acted such a to-da-fé over them, by the k, as 
effectually | prevented all possible mischief thereafter. 
experience is to stack the Prickly Pear for rotting down at the 
when i Qus nof uin iden. 
e former occupier of the ‘Prickly Pear centre at Cookhuis Drift, j 
NM a man of great en nergy and intelligence, tried to put into practice a — 
plan said to be effective in California for extirpation of the plant. This 
consisted in feeding the stem-joints or leaves as they are 
ttemp speak 
perfect appliance thas a small root pulper such as is used for ma: 
but enough was accomplished to show that seed a piepen a I 
machine and sufficient power, an unlim q of Opuntia mon 
be Yd with great cher my and converted imo poke manure,  — 
lue of Prickly Pear as Fodder for Sheep and Ostriches—I am- 
aware iib the plant has been occasionally turned to a hen in seasons. 
of drought when food and water were equally scare But it is 
essential that the spicules be removed, and this necessity DE 
ar saree of Opuntia as a food both tedious and cos i 
el 
urnip cutter et io cut coarse. 
dicis over tio mass made a sapid mess for which the pe 
and his progeny fought like-dogs over a bone. I do not think one 
the more for this incident, ponen n the "i is 
scale but that of an experim 
Y eaii a 
clever perso , to pay for i its footing and something mor 
2 de o height of the mania for ostrich raising, mad a fw 
r lied. the place. now taken by Ded gta t 
to e: pen prin Eder alae 
