The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

together, hand Tn nand, TOT the peilelil of the country.
 As to live stock, the colony now has more than 5OOOOO cattle, over s0oOOo sheep and about 10000 pigs. There are about 5o,oo0 horses, a large number of goats and a few ostriches. The most of the stock is kept on the high lands.
 As to prices of farm animals, they seem fair for this far away country Goats are worth about $5 each, pigs from $l0 to $20 and Merino sheep from $5 to $6. Almost any kind of good horse will sell for $1o0, and a mule for the same. Ma tive cows bring from $50 to $7O, and those imported from the Cape of Good Hope sell for $100 and upward.
 No Place for Poor Men.
 Notwithstanding these figures I do not advise Americans to come here expecting to make money in farming. This is hardly poor mans country. The native labor on the farms is made up of Kaffirs, who receive from $10 to s15 a month, including their board and lodging. White men cannot do the black mans work without losing caste, and the farmers would rather not have white men to do such work. The line between the white and the black is carefully drawn and the white fears that his race will lose caste if he employs his own people to do the rough work.
 Even the government, anxious as 1t is to have settlers, does not advise men without capital to come to South Africa. In a little book of information for the benefit of emigrants I see It stated that it is necessary for an experienced farmer to have from s2O,O00 to $30,0o0 if he wishes to start into stock rearing in the Trans vaal. The price of lasld varies according to the soil water and nearness to marlSet, Farms on the high veldt, with certain amount of land irrigated, can be pur chased from $2.50 to $l0 per acre. In the lower country, known as the bush veldt the prices are con siderably lower Nearer the towns the land is high, and where there Is plenty of water the prices are much above those l have mentioned. ,The gov ernment advises that a farm should not be less than 2000 acres in size for stock rearing and not less than 5000 where the country is poor. It desires small cultivatofs who will do mixed farming and truck farming Such men should have from s1,5OO to 5000 each, and they should be prepared to work with their own hands.
 The Capitol of the Transvaal.
 I am writing this in Pretoria, the cap ital of the Transvaal and the seat of government of this now English state. It was, you know, the headquarters of the Boer government, the home of Kruger and the pivot of anti-England during the great war in South Africa.
 In going over the country now one sees no signs of the recent struggle except some dismantled forts and an occasional monument put up to the soldiers. The square stone blockhouses which were erected ito guard the railroad between here and Johannesburg are still in evil dence. But that it all.
 The population Is everywhere now com posed of both English and Boers The crowds on the streets are made up of both nations, and the families are marrying and giving in marriage Within a stone's throw of my hotel is the parliament house, where the British and Boers sit toget ther, and where the Boers notwithstanding their defeat, are in the majority. It Is Boer who is the premier. Gen. Botha, who led the Boer armies, now rules the Transvaal, and he, with cabinet largely of his own race, directs the policy of the state and, to a considerable extent dic- tates it's laws.
 The parliament of today is held in the government buildings which were erected by President Kruger in the early nineties at cost of about $S0O.o0o, and the Palace of Justice, another magnificent building, befcfe the outbreak of the war although