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 Stock-Breeding.—For diverting the savage mind from its warlike pleasure in hunting and from the bloody practices induced by the use of guns, into a peaceful as well as productive life, nothing is more efficatious than stock-breeding. Also the shortage of food stuffs resulting from restricted hunting will be supplied by this means.

Since 1921, several stock farms have been established in different parts of the savage districts, where official guidance and encouragement have obtained very gratifying results.

There are now many animals employed by the aborigines as beasts of burden or in ploughing and efforts are being made to breed them to meet the demands even from the people of the plains.