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seed to native growers on unalienated Crown land, and finances 

 experimental stations at Zomba and Lilongwe. The agricultural 

 department has started work on native food plants. Annual re- 

 ports are issued and since 1932, a series of small bulletins each on 

 a special branch of agriculture in the territory, has been published. 



In Tanganyika the headquarters of the Agricultural Department 

 are at Morogoro. There are ten principal stations for arable agri- 

 culture, and about sixty substations, the latter mostly under native 

 authority. Many of the stations are small with an annual alloca- 

 tion of a few hundred pounds. A notable experimental station is 

 at Lyamungu near Moshi, for agronomic and long-range research 

 on coffee, including breeding, which had been started previously 

 only at Amani. The Lyamungu station is under the control of a 

 coffee advisory board consisting of four official and seven unofficial 

 members. A sisal advisory board has also been established and a 

 special research station has been set up at Mlingano in the sisal 

 country of the Tanga plains and an extensive planting programme 

 has been undertaken. Both these stations work in co-operation 

 with Amani, where coffee and sisal also receive special attention. 

 Another innovation is the Lubago Station, opened in 1931 in the 

 Shinyanga district, with the objects of trying new and improving 

 existing varieties of crops; also of instructing natives in better 

 methods of cultivation. Cotton crop stations at Morogoro, Kingol- 

 wira, Ukiriguru, Lubago, Uzinza and Mpanganya have been re- 

 organized and their work extended to include various problems 

 of native agriculture. At Nyakato in Bukoba Province, the centre 

 of the largest native coffee area in East Africa, there is an entomo- 

 logical branch station, and a tobacco experimental station is estab- 

 lished at Iheme in Iringa Province. The annual reports describe 

 results of research in addition to other departmental activities, and 

 are published, like those of Kenya, in the more conveniently 

 handled octavo form. In addition, a series of pamphlets is issued 

 at intervals. 



The Tanganyika Veterinary Department, centred at Mpwapwa, 

 has a laboratory and experimental farm. It is noteworthy that 

 the inclusion on the staff of a pasture research officer and a bio- 

 chemist has led to valuable results on stock nutrition. Large 

 annual reports are issued. The Department of Tsetse Research, 



