Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — Farming in South Africa. [ARTICLE]

Farming in South Africa.

Farming In South Africa has its ilrawliacks. A correspondent of the Agricultural Journal of Cupe Town relates some of them: The locusts came ate in autumn (May) and devastated the pastures to such an extent that the writer's 1,200 half-starved ewes raised only 200 lambs. Then foot and mouth disease broke out among his cattle, and fifteen out; of sixty-five sueoumbed, being unable in their reduced condition to recover front the debilitating effects of the disease. At the time of writing farmers were trying to harvest theiioat hay. but heavy rains interfered: the grubs had taken tliree-fourths of the mealies (maize or corn) crop, and a new generation of locusts had hatched out. requiring ceaseless efforts to check their udvauce before their wings grew.