A New Branch Of Farming

The agricultural societiea of Southern África appsar to be turning their attentiou to a class of, farm stock promi-ing to yield a large return- of which our agricultural departmoüt may, perbaps, be persuaded to mak e a smalt importatioo for the be#efit of the camel región in the south-west. Tho stock aliuded to ia nothiug less than the ostrich, the foathers of vvbich ara stated to be worth in África, before esportation, 6125 per pound (L25 sterling). There l wentj four merchantable featffers on the wiDg of the male bird, it appoars, pluckablo semi-annually, and a statezaont mado at the last Swollendatu Agricultural Show sets the value of' each half yearly pluoking at L12 lOs. per bird. A member of the Society, L. Von Marlitz, who w endorsad as a most enterprising and succossful farmer, gives his oxperieoce before a eommifcteo, from which we condense the following : " Towards the close of the last year, I purohased seventeen young ostriches of threo or four montha oíd, I placed thom iu an enclosure of 300 acres in extent, in which they had a free run. They bave been kept thero ever sinco, and have subsisted entirely upon the herbage of the enclosuro, except aa occasional faed of grain when driven to the house for the inspection of visitors. I had Pther stock within the enclosure ; and thirty-five birds can be carried year in and year out upon öOO acres of good grazing land - land rather superior to tha comrnon run. My ostriches are so tame that they allow themselvcs to bo baodlod and thoir plumage minutely exainou. The original coat ol the young birds was about L5 cash." Will not some patriotio citizen accept a commission from Mr. Newton's Eureau to go out to África for a cargo of