CHAPTER XIV 
PIGS, CATTLE, OSTRICHES 
Pigs .—For the genuine settler, whether he be farm¬ 
ing either on a small or large scale, the pig is almost 
a necessity ; provided of course that he, the farmer, 
be within reasonable access of the railway. The great 
attractions of pigs to farmers in the Protectorate are 
afforded by three facts. He requires little labour. He 
eats food much of which is useless for any other 
purpose, and all of which is cheap. He is always 
readily marketable, and produces a profit at an early 
date. These qualities are, of course, the same 
essential ones which render the pig popular wherever 
he is bred ; but they are especially commendable in a 
country where labour tends to be uncertain both in 
quantity and quality, where food stuffs either grow 
wild or are produced at a minimum of cost, and where 
a quick return of cash profits is continually required 
during the period of development. While some 
farmers, then, will keep swine as their principal pro¬ 
ducts and will grow feeding stuffs to this end alone, 
many others will keep a sow or two more as a by¬ 
product and to help defray the cost of living. 
At the present time the Protectorate is equipped 
with an up-to-date bacon curing factory. To-day the 
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