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Excerpt from Farming Industries of Cape Colony The distance covered during my South African visit completed the one hundred and fifty thousand miles of foreign travel by land and sea which I have undertaken during the last nine years in the interests of agricultural research. During that period I have studied on the spot the agricultural resources of India, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the United States of America, Greece, Italy, Egypt, and South Africa, and I have published accounts of the results of my investigations. On this occasion my visit was undertaken at the invitation of the Government of Cape Colony. Soon after the appearance of my Australian work in 1891, I was approached on the subject by the late Sir Charles Mills, then Agent-General for the Colony in London, and I have since learned that this was done probably at the suggestion of the Hon. J. X. Merriman; but my existing engagements made it impossible to comply with the suggestion till the spring of last year, when, on the completion of the five months' course of lectures in this University in the end of March, six months were left free for the work in hand. The ground it was necessary to cover was so extensive that the four months spent in the country were barely sufficient to do it without more than the usual amount of discomfort and personal fatigue, and the undertaking proved more trying from the physical standpoint than even the journey of thirteen thousand miles which I made by rail in India in the hot weather of 1887. 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.

Excerpt from Farming Industries of Cape Colony While visiting farms, and meeting and talking privately with as many farmers as possible, I make it a rule to reserve the public expression of any definite opinions on agricultural matters until I have completed my investigations, and to avoid public meetings, on account of such being a waste of valuable time, and infinitely more liable to develop heated controversial discussions which convince no one, than to contribute to one's stock of information relative to a new country. I trust that the executive committees of agricultural societies and associa tions, whose invitations I consequently felt in duty bound to refuse, will understand and appreciate the necessity for my doing so. On my return to Cape Town, it still. Remained to be decided what form my statement to Government, includ ing recommendations for improvement in the various branches of the subject, should take, and after full delibera tion it was agreed that a report in the form of a blue book would be unattractive, and would probably not be as widely read as a fully illustrated and more popularly written production, and that consequently a volume on the lines of my Indian and Australian works would be preferable, if completed in time to be considered by the Cape Parlia ment during the current session. AS in the case Of my investigations, I was left free to express my views on the position of the farming industries, on the agricultural educa tion of the Colony, and on the constitution of the Agricultural Department of Government, and it is my hope that it will not be thought that I have taken any undue advantage of the confidence placed in me by criticising too severely in those few instances in which I felt it to be my duty to strongly express disapprobation of existing conditions. 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.