Historic Breed

Of Cattle

Now In Mauritius

ANIMAL experts say that in Mauritius there may be found one of the outstanding curios ities of the cattle world (Mauritius is a sugar island in the Indian Ocean, comparable in many ways to Fiji— a nd especially in the fact that Indians, brought in originally to work the sugar plantations, now have virtual control of the terri tory) .

The Vikings, in the dawn of his tory, took from Northern Europe to Britain a special kind of poll cattle.

The breed later was taken to France, where it survived for hundreds of years. Some two or three hundred years ago, when France first colonised Mauritius, some of these cattle were taken out to the island: descendants thereof stock most of the “32,000 one-cow farms” on Mauritius to-day. Mean while, the breed has died out in all other countries.

Friesian cattle lately have been imported to Mauritius from South Africa, in an attempt to rejuvenate and improve the ancient strain.

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