FARMING IN TANGANYIKA
Sir,-On 2XP’s Farm Session for July 12, Jack Brown had a Mr. Fox in the studio to give some impressions of farming in Tanganyika. Mr, Fox related how he would bring in the cows early in the morning and not be surprised to find an
elephant or two amongst the Ayrshires, While discussing wild same on Tanganyika farms Mr. Fox related how a lion would hurdle a four-foot fence with a two-year-old heifer grasped in its jaws. Having resided in Rhodesia, which is relatively close to Tanganyika, I know that many tall stories are always current in those parts. One of them, for instance, concerns marauding baboons. To dig a pit and snare one of the troop is the first step. Secure a pot of white paint or wash and paint the animal white. While this is taking place the remainder of the troop are looking on from the top of a near-by kopje. Release the white baboon and it immediately goes in pursuit of its troop, which is natural, as they are gregarious. The effectiveness of ricding the area of the baboons comes about this way. The troop. observe the white creature coming near but don’t recognise it as one of their own and are afraid, so they run; byt the white chap can’t why they don’t wait for him: thus they gallop on out into Bechuanaland and the South Atlantic Ocean presumably. Let’s return to Mr. Fox. When he related his stories he did so with seriousness and without a clue to humour. The Farm Session is usually educational and interesting, but I feel we were "taken for a ride" on July 12, as Mr, Fox: did not have a erasp of Taneanvike farminc,
TARANAKI TED
(New Plymouth); |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 5
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293FARMING IN TANGANYIKA New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 5
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