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factories and cold storages which handle perishable produce, by 

 a system of inspection and licensing. It also controls all technical 

 aspects relating to rail transport, pre-cooling, and ocean transport 

 of perishable produce intended for export. 



In addition to the organizations outlined above, the Native 

 Affairs Department of the Union Government has a large and 

 well-qualified European staff and approximately two hundred and 

 fifty native agricultural officers, who have been trained at agricul- 

 tural institutions such as Fort Cox and Fort Hare University Col- 

 lege.^ Research in the ordinary sense scarcely comes within the 

 purview of this department, but its extension work among the 

 native population is of the utmost importance. Basutoland has 

 some twenty-five of these trained native officers and others operate 

 in the native territories of the Union. 



Among publications on the subject in South Africa, Farming in 

 South Africa is an official monthly journal published by the depart- 

 ment of agriculture and forestry. It contains articles and short 

 reports on research work which is of practical value to farmers, 

 and the December number each year contains the annual report 

 of the Secretary for Agriculture on the year's progress and activities. 

 Bulletins, both scientific and with practical advice to farmers, are 

 published as required by the several divisions of the department. 

 In addition, the division of plant industry publishes Memoirs of the 

 Botanical Survey of South Africa^ the Bothalia series, and Entomological 

 Memoirs. The results of work at the Onderstepoort Laboratory 

 have, since 1933, been published quarterly by the division of 

 veterinary services in the Onderstepoort Journal. Earlier results are 

 contained in a series of eighteen reports of the Director. 



In Southern Rhodesia, centred in Salisbury, an extensive Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, a strongly staffed Veterinary Department, 

 and a Department of Veterinary Research are embraced within 

 the Ministerial Division of Agriculture and Lands. The depart- 

 ment of agriculture, whose work is devoted primarily to the 

 problems of European farmers and ranchers, is subdivided into 

 branches specializing on the development of water-supplies, on 

 water and soil conservation, animal and field husbandry, includ- 

 ing tobacco and cotton, dairying, poultry, forestry, agricultural 



* See A Survey of Africa, Chapter xviii. 



