Show j L. OSTRICH INDUSTRY IN i I m Consul E. A. J f Port I furnish one of the important features in the in Atrial life of Cape prices are paid for Scy from well known while has been paid R a single bird for stock pur- f For many years the more farmers throughout the Sole of South Africa recognized necessity and wisdom of some system of for imported standard m for all colonial stock i from imported ad also such other colonial bred dock as hould measure up to a required standard to be by a committee of compe-m experts in conjunction with ommittee of practical t South African Agricultural at its annual meeting in took the initial step by Rang a resolution favoring the establishment of a stud book for the British African At in the first stud book conference was and at Pretoria in July of the following year a fairly complete scheme for stock registration was This includes and Ostrich feathers are classified generally in accordance with a printed list and filed at Bureau of Cape Colony has not permitted the exportation of or eggs for several years on the ground that such exportation would endanger her supremacy in the feather It is not considered that any change in respect will be made under the Union of South In the forty years or more that the ostrich has been many changes have occurred in methods of and while experiments are continually conducted to devise more scientific Much has been written and said regarding the production of inferior That such feathers are continually produced is amply proved by the tremendous variations in prices of feathers of the same All feathers in the district are sold at public auction on regularly specified sale European or American buyers are usually represented by local buyers who ordinarily receive per cent commission on all In addition to this commission the foreign buyer is expected to pay packing and insurance As illustrating the differences in at a recent sale prime whites sold at to per Prime whites taking the first prize at the Port Elizabeth annual exhibition were sold for per This of was really a fictitious based upon a combination of sentiment and real |