AND MINING RECORD. 



Vol. IV. FRIDAY. SE PTE VI BER 13. 1901. No. 14. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAv>E. 



District Reports ... ... 42[i 



Veterinary. 



Rinderpest in the South. By H. 



Watkins-Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S. 417 



Agriculture. 



Agricultural Produce at Durban 



(Illustrated) ... ... 418 



The Mealie Market ... 422 



Agricultural Education ... 425 



Analysis of Aloe Ash ... ... 430 



Dairy. 



Befrieerator Cars ... ... 419 



Natal Creamery Operations ... 423 



PAGE. 



Poultry, etc. 



Belgian Hare Breeding. By Douglas 



Blackburn ... ... 431 



Entomology. 



Report of Cape Government Ento- 



mclog st tor 1900 ... ... 441 



Correspondence. 



Chemical Fertilisers— Arch. Pearce 444 



„ Alex. Pardy 445 



Redwater— C.L. ... ... 446 



Garden Notes ... ... ... 443 



Market Reports ... ••• 448 



Rinderpest in tite Soutit. 



By H. Watkins Pitchpord, F.R.C.V.S. 



DURING the last week it has been 

 found expedient to close our 

 Southern Border against the introduction 

 of horned stock. Rinderpest has ad- 

 vanced step hj step from the Cape 

 Colony, and now threatens to invade us 

 from the south. 



Steps have at cnce been taken to place 

 guards on all the gates and openings in 

 the fence happily maintained on this our 

 Southern Border, and in this way the 

 actual ingress of cattle will be guarded 

 against. Whether such precautions will 

 succeed in keeping the disease out of the 

 Colony is a matter of grave doubt, but 

 the Government has decided to do every- 



thing possible to prevent this fell disease 

 again getting a footing within our 

 Borders. 



If it should again attack us it must be 

 borne in mind that it is impossible for 

 the disease to ravage our herds to the 

 same degree as in the outbreak of '95-'96, 

 and that as the same urgent necessity 

 cannot exist it will be the duty of all 

 stock-owners to remember that organisa- 

 tion and concerted Government action 

 will give the best prospect of successful 

 help for all. The indiscriminate and 

 often selfish action of the farmer who 

 rushes into precipitate and isolated 

 aetion involves his immediate neighbours 



