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 offer a magnificent opportunity to the British settler in Rhodesia.

Here it may be well to summarize the points to be observed in preparing this State for settlement—points really essential to successful colonization on a large scale:

1. Legislative action to include

(a) Compulsory fencing.

(b) Regulation and inspection of imported cattle.

(c) Scientific inspection and disinfection of railway trucks, and such instruction of the police as would enable them to recognise animal diseases.

(d) A seed and fertilizer Adulteration Act.

2. Departmental action covering compilation of soil maps, and detailed register of lands available for settlement.

Given these beginnings, the establishment of a settlement farm, which, financially supported at the outset by Government or a corporation, would speedily become self-supporting under skilled management, would prove a great aid to new colonists. This farm would include all branches of stock-rearing, and the culture of specialized crops—tobacco, cotton, rubber.

There is no doubt whatever that, taken as a whole, the pasturage of Rhodesia is superior to that of any other part of South Africa, and the Chartered Company does good service in supplying stock to settlers on advantageous terms. Allusion has been already made to the tick pest by which African Coast fever is spread. Investigations up to the present time have established that a tick does carry infection for six months after it has dropped from a sick beast, and cannot carry it beyond fifteen months. By working backwards and forwards from those two limits, the exact period of contagion—if the term be permissible in default of a better—will no doubt presently be authoritatively settled. The period of incubation of the fever is no less than thirteen