Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-10-12
FARMING IN CAPE COLONY.

Picture Of Agricultural Life and Condi-
ticHs In South Africa.
ssAt six o. clock each morning earlier
in summer-after Sallie, our little
kafTir maid-of-all- has brought to
each Of us, while in bed, the matutinal
cup of coffee, without which no Cape
farmer. British or Dutch, begins the
day. one of our number rises and goes
to the adjacent kraal to count the
goats as they issue forth in charge OF
their kaffir herds to pasture on the
mountain veldt. N'quami, our groom,
long, 1.-THE Kaffir from Galekaland,
more commonly known as John, has
{ slaughtered at the back of the house
Ga single-storied, briek-built messuage,
/ 1at-roofed and white-washed, and
/ perehed high on the mountain side
near perennial fountain) the goat
/ which each day is sacrificed for the
| needs of our household, and the kid
neys, fry and chop Or two are grilled
for breakfast. Honey, found in album
/ dance in the rocks around US, takes the
place of marnalade. Breakfast over,
one of US rides off to the shallow klooi
three miles further away in the mount
aims, where our horses and mules are
run, under the care of Tobias, our
Dutch servant. Another OF us busies
himself marking goats, whilst a third
(there are three of us-one married)
takes on his back a dead kid well
pfimed with strychnine pills, meaning
to deposit it in small kloof across the
fo,s <.f 1t =.
numerous leopards which infest oui
farm. This is the only method o.
keeping down these night marauders
which do cruel execution on our flock
and foals. Then attention must bt
given to the little patch of aliuvial land
by the dry river-bed, where we grow
sufficient grain for our wants, and ode
is usually carried; for game. feathereC
and furred. is plentiful, and is ever
welcome change from the monotony o
goat-fiesh. Meanwhile the wife of tn,
Benedict amongst US is busy superin
tending the washing. cooking AM
other matters of domestic economy, a
well as the education of her littl
fair-haired girl, our pride and delight
Katie. our cook. a yellow lady c
: mixed race (Hottentot, Kaffir an
Bushman intermingled). attends t
r the baking of our cookies cakes G
unleavened meal which usurp tn
place of bread, and which are bake
! and capitally baked. too-in a hol
; in the ground, heated in the natiy
: fashion If we do not make none
: nowadays as we did a few years since
when the railways We're being bull
:. we live in q rude plenty; meat
!, abundance is ours, dried fruits
; ounces and peaches, excellent whe
stewed-bought from the Beers VIII
. pass us occasionally with wagonloat
: of produce; oranges and grapes
:, season from the irrigated farms
! Beers out beyond the Poort. whens
we emerge from our mountain HON
and porridge of pounded meahes al
y, milk occasionally. Goats milk v
u have in plenty, but no butter
! cream, for cows and oxen do not fou
; ish upon our zuur veldt. Gan
u abounds with us Our mountains su
u port several kinds of antelope-tl
y zillspringer. rhebok of two sorts. VI
= and ROOF (gray and red), duykerbo
IL and an occasional koodoo; the latt
IA one of the noblest Of the South Afric;
L fauna, carrying magnificent spir
:. horns ana Weighing from four hu
- dred to FIVE hundred pounds. =.
- James Gazette