OSTRICH FARMING. 
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farm situated on the sandstone range called the 
Tuurberg, which skirts Graham’s Town on the south. 
There is no limestone on the farm. He has been at 
considerable expense in sheds, enclosures, and artificial 
feeding, and though successful at last, it has been only 
attained by dear-bought experience; Angoras do not 
succeed, and, as a rule, wethers only thrive well, lambs 
are reared with difficulty, and ostriches require a large 
amount of artificial food, mealies and green crops, and 
require crushed bones, which they devour greedily. 
Until this plan was adopted, the birds were in low 
condition, unhealthy, and the feathers inferior and 
interrupted in their growth. 
“ Since the supply of bonedust (he gives Jib. sulphur 
to two buckets of crushed bones with salt) the 
improvement in the quality and value has been very 
marked, and the condition of the birds greatly 
im proved. The yield and quality of the feathers 
appear to be directly proportionate to the health and 
vio-our of the bird. Limestone, from the coastland, was 
tried at first, as the birds would not lay; it was broken 
up and scattered about, but the birds would not touch 
it, the phosphate of lime of the bones was the tiling- 
wanted, and they rushed at the bones with avidity, 
and immediately began to improve in health and to 
lay. Still, although he has had ostriches for nearly 
three years, and began with many full-grown birds, 
the attempts at incubation have been abortive from 
various causes, and he has had no increase. Of 85 
birds originally placed on the farm in a 400-acre 
enclosure, he has lost 27—13 by cold and wet, three by 
diphtheria, six killed by natives, three by fighting, and 
two by falling into holes ; he has five more males than 
