Ostrich farming in South Africa : being an account of its origin and rise; how to set about it; the profits to be derived; how to manage the birds; the capital required; the diseases and difficulties to be met with, &c. &c

Abstract

1. Ostrich farming, its origin and prospects -- 2. The ostrich -- 3. South Africa in a farming light -- 4. The capital required -- 5. Fencing -- 6. The profits of ostrich farming -- 7. Birds on the halves -- 8. Farming partnerships -- 9. Travelling with birds -- 10. Stocking a farm -- 11. Managing a flock of plucking birds -- 12. Taking the feathers -- 13. Preparing the feathers for market -- 14. The English feather market -- 15. Selecting and managing the breeding birds -- 16. The egg -- 17. Natural hatching -- 18. Artificial hatching -- 19. Rearing the chicks -- 20. Diseases -- 21. Tape-worms -- 22. Strongylus Douglassii -- 23. Caponising -- 24. Wounds -- 25. Economy and credit -- 26. Destruction of carnivorous animals -- 27. Land laws -- 28. Horses and cattle -- 29. The labour supply -- 30. Dam-making -- 31. Building and brick-making -- 32. Hints on buying and hiring farms -- 33. To young Englishmen about to emigrate.