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Excerpt from Report on the Forests of British East Africa, 1909
There might, however, be an objection to this tree if it were to overrun the country. It has thorns like the Mimosa (acacia horrida) of South Africa, and in Texas the tree is objected to by the stock-riders and those who keep sheep. The spontaneous growth of this tree in Hawai and its useful qualities form an interesting study, which I have discussed in a recent paper in the Transvaal Journal of Agriculture, 1906. Forest of Plains at V0i. - Fringing the Voi stream is an area of to acres of forest. Mr. Jordan, Government Surveyor, describes this as containing fair timber though often hollow. But. The timber is good enough to warrant the erection of a saw mill for working it. The land on which the forest grows is rich, though there is not enough water in the Voi River to irrigate much of it. Voi is notoriously unhealthy. Anopheles are said by a competent observer to be as numerous in places as on the West Coast of Africa. I cannot recommend the retention of this forest from a climatic or health point of view. The scrub forest will furnish firewood and charcoal and fencing posts in the future, as it now supplies firewood (where it is accessible) to the Uganda Railway. Its unhealthiness will be decreased by its being largely cleared, burnt over yearly, and converted, by close grazing, to short sweet veld. It is an ideal goat country. Goats are as badly wanted here as is their decrease in the Mediterranean region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
