. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . tolerably large v. ists con ■. I-. very little and the pate al whioh they breed enables a fana comparatively shorl tin pretty well any numb ar,- jusl the thing for the man with a limited capital. ren ,and .1 young pure bred boar Pi ; I ha! £30 i i sufl 11icuaii i i with, as at t he end of twelve monl h ild be in Piflv if d d from thosi d on ; obi Prom elsewhere The amount of land required for nds fery much on the treatment the pigs gel in the shape of food supplied them other than vhal Igrows, hot- instance, if within a short di
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . tolerably large v. ists con ■. I-. very little and the pate al whioh they breed enables a fana comparatively shorl tin pretty well any numb ar,- jusl the thing for the man with a limited capital. ren ,and .1 young pure bred boar Pi ; I ha! £30 i i sufl 11icuaii i i with, as at t he end of twelve monl h ild be in Piflv if d d from thosi d on ; obi Prom elsewhere The amount of land required for nds fery much on the treatment the pigs gel in the shape of food supplied them other than vhal Igrows, hot- instance, if within a short distance of Pietermaril j or Durban n\ en quantities of food can he purchased very cheaply at times hy anyone on the outlookmuch smaller acreage would be needed than where all the food had to be produced on Iland. The hind itself also would affect the numbers capable of being profitably n that special acreages can be started as needed. A living can be made, however, out of pon a small acreage, and with less capital than with either horses, cattle or Folded WOOL AND MOHAIR.—Wool production and export ranks among the most importantof Natahs farming industries. The sheep industry has. however, suffered in the past fromvarious causes, among which may be mentioned thefts by natives, the prevalence ofcertain diseases ( bluetongue and gallsickness). the depletion of flocks as a result of theBoer war. and the influence of the cattle disease, rinderpest. As regards the last-namedfactor, the rinderpest plague of 1896 and 1897 seriously depleted the herds of cattle with theresult that cattle-farming became more profitable than sheep-raising—to the consequentdetriment of the wool industry. The greatest number of sheep recorded as having been in the possession of Europeansin the Province in any single year was in 1895—just before rinderpest appeared in Natal— 410 when there were 950,187 sheep. The following statement shows the effect of rinderpest uponthe sheep industr
Size: 2122px × 1178px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidnatalprovincedes00tatl
