The world's meat futureAn account of the live stock position and meat prospects of all leading stock countries of the world, with full lists of freezing works . £40 per acre, sohigh values for the land are justifiable. On the occasion of my first visit what struck me as curiouswas the great amount of faith held by practically all the settlersin the future of the country, and the extremely rare caseswhere they (the settlers) were attempting to justify this faithby bucking in in raising stock or crops to show the returns theland was capable of producing. BRITISH EAST AFRICA 191 Strangeias tliisi
The world's meat futureAn account of the live stock position and meat prospects of all leading stock countries of the world, with full lists of freezing works . £40 per acre, sohigh values for the land are justifiable. On the occasion of my first visit what struck me as curiouswas the great amount of faith held by practically all the settlersin the future of the country, and the extremely rare caseswhere they (the settlers) were attempting to justify this faithby bucking in in raising stock or crops to show the returns theland was capable of producing. BRITISH EAST AFRICA 191 Strangeias tliisipiay ^appear, this remains one of the curiositiesiof the position. Many of the settlers, both young and middle-aged, appear as if they took up the land with the expectationsof making a good rise out of the unearned increment, not withthe desire to secure a good income from the products of thatland, and show little desire for real hard work. As in all new countries, it is the man, young or old, who iscapable of turning the land to best account, either by hard workwith his hands or brains in directing his labour, who is of thegreatest value to the CONGONI, SHOT BY Mr. DuNCAN CaRSON. Unfortunately, many of the settlers appear to think by habit-ing the land, by running a few head of cattle or sheep, by culti-vating a small area, that they are doing all that can be expectedof them. Many even do less than that. For these men it hasbeen fortunate that the laud speculators have come along andgiven them high prices, but it is unfortunate for the next manwho desires that block that he has to give the speculator hisprofit and pay a price when there are few actual returns fromthe property, in some cases no returns, to show what is the realvalue of the place. Interest is at a high rate, and money isborrowed from the private lenders at from 10 up to, I believe,15 per cent., so that only high returns from the farms wouldjustify the prices, from £2 up to £3 per acre, which are
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