BRITAIN'S GIFT.
This South African farmer will take back to Griqualand, when the party leave in October, a thoroughbred stallion, a tractor, and a bull or two. The thoroughbred is to cross with Basuto ponies, for he believes the pony is becoming more valuable than the horse. The tractor is to pull a plough through land too heavy for the lighter American tractor, and it will have a straight run of four miles before it is turned at the " headland." Shorthorn, Ayrshires, Devon and Red Poll cattle—to mention the breeds that he mentioned—all flourish in South Africa, -but it is necessary to come back to England to maintain the quality of the stock in horses, cattle, most sheep other than merino, and pigs. Britain is the mother country in more senses than one. It co-operates with all parts of the. Empire in most departments of farming, in economic biology and chemistry, in pure-bred stock, and in machinery. The one exception is in profits !
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