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what Dr. Atlierstone has to say on the subject I am 
very glad to hear that the objects of the society have 
been so successfully attended to in other respects. 
" Believe me, yours truly, 
(Signed) "Henry Barkly." 
From the account given in the foregoing letter of 
the success attending the use of the incubator at the 
Cape Colony, I would strongly recommend that one 
should be obtained, as without some artificial means 
of hatching the eggs, no great increase can be relied 
on. 
The following letter on "Ostrich Farming at the 
Cape" will also be of interest. It is an account of a 
visit made by Mr. J. B. Hellier of Graham's Town to 
Mr. Douglass' Ostrich farm :— 
"Hilton lies some twelve miles from Grahamstown 
some two miles or less off to left or west of the Cradock 
road. The house stands in the middle of a lawn-like 
flat, what we should call in England a meadow, and in 
relation to the house, the 'home ground.' We were 
quite surprised to see such a building-three stories 
bigh, and quite a contrast to the usual farm houses of 
the colony. To those who know the hospitalities of 
the country we need not detail what happened on our 
arrival. After breakfast we began on foot at first to 
make our round of the various ostrich flocks and troops 
scattered or located as they are over a farm of some 
3,000 morgen; and as we shall require the aid of the 
artificial memory afforded by the recollection of the 
way we went we will teU our story in that order 
beginning where we began with the first flock of this' 
yearsclnckenswecame to. The first chickens of thisyear 
