Show 0 1171 14 1 0 4 4 1 A a 51 kal 0 4 CEOL RHO DESIA preserves in its name the memory of the empire RHODESIA builder cecil rhodes to whose hose courageous foresight its existence Is to due unfortunately lie A le was as too late to secure for the territory the tile outlet to the seaboard without which every country Is more or less of a dependency sas s the montreal family herald and weekly star on either aide side of rhodesia Rhod csia east ind already extended tv to 0 great german colonies to the south of at east german africa and to the north of west german africa was a portuguese colony so that all hope of gaining a deep water frontage for rhodesia by natural extension was cut off german west africa is not a very valuable possession being generally rocky sterile unwholesome and having no safe harbors it possesses blue clay ho however weier aich which has produced some if so far not many diamonds and the rocks may contain minerals both th thi western and eastern colonies receive subsidies from the home government hut but then the germans are not trained in the business of managing colonies under british rule the eastern colony at any rate would have been self supporting from the first it Is fertile and has wide nide tr etches of valuable land cotton does all there thrive as well as la in australia there are no fatal pests for cattle excepting far inland and the trouble is not exceptionally serious lous Is T duct german east africa would become a second argentina under really capable management file firse for stock railing raising the A he recent purchase of 0 a large tract of land in rhodesia Rh odeala for the purpose of stock raising by an american syndicate has his drawn the attention of the public to the possibilities that exist in south africa for this industry if properly developed that country would in time become a serious competitor to the argentine republic which heads the worlds list today as a meat exporter there would be no trouble about summer feeding there are largo large tracts of land on the high veldt that are unsuitable for cultivation being stony by nature which produce good crops of grass flie or alx mix months of the car on these at present are grazed a limited number of cattle sheep and goats which could be very largely Inc increased reared Is in number na were ere provision made for winter feeding by the growing gro ing of corn or other foreign crops in northern countries the boer farmer of today is slowly reco recovering cring from the enormous losses bo he sustained in the tile late war mar when A hen ill hit s sheep and goats were mere slaughtered by the thousand and hie his cattle commandeered for military tary purposes nut but in a to fow years more he should have hac ills lipi block stock replenished in the natural course of events unless lie loses lose more animals than usual through some of ta the to sicknesses of the country five thousand acre farma firms the a average arago size of a farm runs to about thousand acres but when hen wo e consider that this N will fit probably in dude part of a kopje or mountain 4 and that probably halt half of it is ol 01 very little value except for grazing thoro there Is nothing wonderful ond erful about that the only parts that are put un der cultivation are the valleys an stretches by the riverside if an ordinary farmer puts acres dundei cultivation he is considered to be farm ing in a large way altogether there are square miles of land in northern and south ern rhodesia on which there is a population of only and on of these whites the country has no direct outlet its communication with the sea boing through portuguese east africa two thirds at least of southern rhodesia lie three thousand feet and more above sea level about a quartel of this being over four thousand feet the highest ground being well suited from a climatological point of view for european settlement generally rp speaking caking Rh rhodesia is not a country for or the man without cap ital the white population is at pres ent inconsiderable in numbers and is 1 in a great measure scattered over the country on farms and in small mining centers there are in consequence no communities sufficiently large tc otter offer regular work to more than a very limited number of artisans or city la borers it Is generally accepted that successful terming forming necessitates a min imura capital of to un improved land cells sells at about per acre and upwards laborers live on farms the labor problem Is got over oer by allowing a number of to live on the farm they have permission to cultivate a certain amount of land and to graze their cattle and goats in return they must give the farm er a certain amount of their time for cultivating hie his land and look after big cattle it if are scarce the carmet ill probably induce some poor white families to locate on his farm who give their labor in exchange for the privilege of living on the farm they build their own houses bouse sand and cultivate enough land to give them thom a living but very seldom grow anything to sell the arow or va wife if e looks after the garden and fowls the eggs generally going to the nearest store in exchange for such necessaries of life as sugar rugar and tea the high veldt farmer can by judi clous cious burning of the grass on certain sections keep a supply of green grass grata all winter inter and thereby keep his cattle in good condition some follow another course they hire a farm on the low lov veldt where the grass Is better in winter monter and bring the stock by slow marches from the highlands to the hired farm farin grating them by the road over which they travel As there arc are practically no fences excepting around cult cultivated hated land there Is no difficulty in feeding on the way ie Is a tropical country it must not be forgotten rhodesia Is entirely within the tropics which extend to the twenty third degree of latitude on olther either side tilde of the equator and that generally speaking it Is in this area that a uniformly high temperature pera ture prevails the moan mean annual figures being at from 73 degrees to 82 degrees fahrenheit tho the average for the whole hole of rhodesia la is however considerably less than this c owing win g to the difference in altitude 4 |