OSTRICH FARMING AT THE CAPE.

Evening Star, Issue 3568, 30 July 1874, Page 3

OSTRICH FARMING AT THE CAPE.

A novel sight was witnessed in Graaff-Reinet (says the ‘ Cape Argus’), A troop of no less than seventy-eight tame ostriches were driven through the streets of the town to an enclosure in Somerset street, where they remained to rest and feed for a few days. They are the property of Mr Petrus Van Peerden, of the farm Poortje, in the Murraysburg District, from which place they have been so far successfully driven. Seventy of the birds are fine, well-grown creatures, six months old, the remaining eight are but three months old. They are strong looking and in good plumage for their age. Fifty of them are already sold, we understand, ; at L 22 10s each, and the proprietor is now on his way to deliver them in the Bedford division, and to dispose of the remainder. So large a venture in ostriches for sale we have not heard of before, and we hope the spirited farmer may reach his destination with the birds, and do well with them. The birds keep well together along the highway and across the veld, being heart by diivers on horseback. They feed as the 7 S°> being also occasionally supplied with a little barley, &c.