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immigration
of men there was an equally shrewd effort on the part of the company to
advance the breeding of horses, cattle, and sheep. Stallions were
imported from Persia to improve the stock, which had been falling off
in size and quality though increasing in number. Spanish rams were used
to lay the foundation of the South African breed of merinos, and the
Angora goats bore transplacing excellently, and soon
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browsed greedily on the coarse grasses of the Cape.
By the advances of the voortrekkers or pioneer farmers the range of settlement was extended so far in 1761 that the start of
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