The African Repository and Colonial Journal Volume 40

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1864 Excerpt: ... The neighborhood of Carysburgh is a capital spot for this movement. The land is rolling, the air cool and bracing; the grass that grows there stronger and more nourishing than in the immediate vicinity of the coast. Already two facts have been noticed which give encouragement; namely, that cows give double the quantity of milk there that they do in Monrovia; and that, as in more northern latitudes, cows yield their milk six and seven months after their calves have been killed or removed from them. The general belief, heretofore, here has been that they would dry up as soon as their young ceased sucking. I may mention here that small supplies of butter are already coming from Carysburgh into our Monrovia market. If this enterprise succeeds, and our farmers can supply us with all the meat we need, it will make a very material difference in our orders on America for salt meats and fish, and at the same time stimulate enterprise in the country, and keep large amounts of money at home which now go abroad. I have no doubt of the success of this enterprise, for it meets a great and radical need. The country furnishes every facility for its success; great spirit has been shown in inaugurating it and carrying it on, and cattle of various breeds can be obtained from the interior. Our neighbors at Sierra Leone have a full and constant supply of cattle in their markets. I am told that twelve and fourteen beeves are killed in Freetown daily, to supply the needs of that population. I failed to mention to you in former letters that Liberians are beginning to turn their attention to the advantages which are offered them in the wild coffee which abounds in the bush. Extensive forests of coffee growwild in the interior, in the rear of our settlements. When the Commission...