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that was produced in 1901, be compared with that of the 

 previous year. The inferiority is said to be due to the very 

 dry weather, which caused a number of dairies to suffer from 

 the want of sufficient supplies of ice and water. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2,77 8.] 



The official journal of the Cape Department of Agriculture 

 states that there can be no doubt that the opportunity to 

 get possession of cattle of first-class breed 

 Breeding- Stock wou i ( j ^ e eagerly seized by many stock- 

 for South Africa. . - ~ ~ , , 



breeders in Cape Colony. 'IhroughouT 



South Africa," the Journal states, <l there are numerous well- 

 to-do farmers, who, if the chance were given them to inspect 

 high-priced animals of good pedigree, landed at Cape Town, 

 'Port Elizabeth, or East London, would willingly take the trip 

 and pay the price. For the enterprising breeder oversea 

 there is a good thing to be done in this way, if he will 

 venture, gradually at first if he chooses, to approach our 

 markets with his samples. To him we would offer excuses 

 for any timidity shown by cur farmers in reference to 

 sending orders abroad ' on spec.,' for they have been 

 so beset by diseases and ' political ' troubles that wacht 

 een beetje seems to have become a kind of industrial 

 creed for the nonce. Still we think they will yield readily 

 to temptation if presented in the way suggested." 



[The Agricultural Journal, Department of Agriculture, Cape of Good Hofe.'] 



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