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Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 40: Part III.; February, 1909 Putting aside the question of periodic dipping, which is an essential in a tick-infested area, the best possible means for checking the spread of disease among live-stock, as well as for increasing the value of the pasture, in a country like Rhodesia is fencing. Using galvanised wire, plain and barbed, and the most durable posts, the cost by contract runs up to GBP40 per mile. New settlers, who, in their own interests as well as in the interests of the country, should be all bound to ring-fence their holdings before acquiring the titles to the land, might save a substantial part of this sum by doing the erection and hauling themselves at slack seasons with their own boys. Many of the native woods rot rapidly or are destroyed by white ants and borers, so that only a limited number are suitable for fencing purposes as dead timber; but there are several species which can be used to plant as live stakes to grow and support the wires. Some people object to fencing in this way, as the bark envelops and fixes the wire so that it cannot be tightened up when it slackens and sags but, in spite of all the minor drawbacks, the use of live branches of suitable trees overcomes the most serious difficulty of getting fencing-stakes in some parts of the country. The trouble and expense of securing straining-posts can now be overcome by adopting the successful New Zealand method of substituting inexpensive stone anchors for costly straining-posts, and straining by a double-handed screw from the centre of the fence; and another deduction from the sum of GBP40 a mile made in consequence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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