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other drawbacks, it does not appear that locusts work more mischief here than they do in other portions of South Africa. Lung sickness among the cattle is not more prevalent than in the Transvaal, and inoculation for this disease has proved quite successful. The principal curse of the country is the devastating horse sickness, for which no remedy has yet been discovered, so that salted horses (those that have recovered from the sickness and have immunity for the future) are very expensive; but this disease will no doubt die out as the country becomes occupied, even as it has already done in districts further south.
(b) In Masiionaland.
Special farming rights were granted to members of the old Pioneer Force in Mashonaland. These, like the volunteer rights in Matabeleland, entitle the owner to peg out a farm free of any conditions as to bond fide occupation. These pioneer farms are of 3,000 acres each, not of 6,000 as in the case of the volunteer farms, and