Author: VILJOEN, P.R. (PREFACE),
Title: Farming opportunities in the Union of South Africa. New edn.
Description: S.l. [Capet Town], South African Railways, Harbours and Airways Administration, 1936. orig. pict. lettered wraps. 130pp. Many ills., of which full-page, tables and graphs in text and full-p., 9 full-p. sketch-maps, occas. coloured, with keys at very end. ADDED: the supplementary booklet: Farm Life in south Africa. sm.8°. orig. lettered wraps. [4]pp. with a text-illustration. Stapled. Supplies a wealth of official information (:) Agrucultural education and Government Assistance, Native labour, climate, settlement possibilities, irrigation and a variety of crops as maize, wheat, tobacco, cotton, sugar, groundnuts, dairy farming, sheep farming, cattle ranching, pig rearing, poutry farmin, viticulture,&c..More or less a promotional issue stimulating foreing farmers to immigrate. Interesting. (first blank gone, somewh. dog-eared copy).

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