AGRICULTURE GENERAL 3II 



In the Union of South Africa all Government agricultural activities 

 are combined under the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. 

 The agricultural side of the department is divided into three 

 divisions of Chemistry, of Plant Industry and of Veterinary Ser- 

 vices. Some of the work of these divisions has been mentioned in 

 earlier chapters, and the establishment of the Division of Chemistry 

 is given in Chapter V. 



The Division of Plant Industry, under Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans, with 

 a total staff of a hundred and nine in 1937, is centred at Pretoria. 

 Now that South Africa is being recognized to be better suited for 

 stock raising than agriculture, much stress is being laid on pasture 

 investigations, and a large experimental farm for this work is estab- 

 lished at Pretoria. Among stations for crop investigation may be 

 mentioned the horticultural station at Nelspruit (chiefly for citrus), 

 Buffelspoort citrus canker station in the Transvaal, the pineapple 

 station at Bathurst, C.P., and the viticultural station at Paarl, C.P. 

 Other stations under the Division of Plant Industry are at the 

 Schools of Agriculture at Grootfontein, Potchefstroom, Glen 

 (O.F.S.), and Cedara (Natal). Low temperature research and 

 fruit inspection, which have their headquarters at Capetown, 

 likewise fall under the direction of the division. The Sugar Associ- 

 ation has an experimental station at Mount Edgecombe, near 

 Durban, where research on sugar cane is being done under Mr. 

 Dodge. Agricultural organization in the winter rainfall area of the 

 Cape Province is in the hands of the Stellenbosch-Elsenburg Col- 

 lege of Agriculture of the University of Stellenbosch, which now 

 belongs to the civil service. Most of the agricultural training and 

 a good deal of research in South Africa is carried out by the 

 departments of agriculture in this and other universities. 



The Faculty of Agriculture at Pretoria University which main- 

 tains a large experimental station, is not under the direct control 

 of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, as are the above, 

 but receives financial support from it. The University of the 

 Witwatersrand has conducted work on veld and pasture inves- 

 tigations since 1932, and has established a special station for this 

 purpose at Frankenvald, near Johannesburg, where 1,000 acres 

 are available for experiments. Research is also carried out by 

 several companies which have farms and laboratories for the pur- 



