CH. XIV 
PIGS, CATTLE, OSTRICHES 
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local demand exceeds the supply, but an export trade 
is in the near future assured, and both the factory itself 
and also pig-breeders are preparing for this end by the 
production of pigs of a type which will cause British 
East Africa bacon to be hall-marked. When the 
industry first started and the factory was erected, the 
company, in order to encourage the enterprise, agreed 
to and did accept at a fixed price every pig that was 
brought to them. The result was bacon of an inferior 
or indifferent stamp. So long as the local market only 
was catered for, this was comparatively immaterial, but 
the moment that export was contemplated it was rightly 
decided either to refuse pigs of inferior stamp or to grade 
the price. Farmers have naturally been rather indignant 
at finding themselves with a quantity of unsaleable or 
unremunerative animals on their hands, and indeed the 
company would have been better advised to decide 
and advertise their policy at an earlier date. Still, 
the inconvenience is merely temporary, and there can 
be little doubt as to the correctness of the present 
policy. 
The pigs known favourably in the country are 
the Large Black, the Berkshire, the Large White 
Yorkshire, the Tamworth, and the Middle White 
Yorkshire. Possibly their popularity comes in the 
order I have stated. Mr. E. J. Prosser, the well- 
known expert, for some time resident in the Pro¬ 
tectorate, states that the best cross for the country is 
formed by crossing a Berkshire sow with a Large 
White Yorkshire. Other practical farmers dissent, 
pointing out that Berkshires notoriously give small 
litters, and also that any white pig is more susceptible 
to the heat than his black brother. Large Blacks, 
either as sows or boars, are proving very popular. A 
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