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which necessarily works in close touch with the veterinary and 

 agricultural departments, has been described in Chapter X. 



In Kenya the headquarters of the Agricultural Department are 

 at Nairobi, as are the Scott Agricultural Laboratories. Maize, 

 wheat, fodder, vegetables, coffee, groundnuts, sugar-cane, etc. are 

 studied. Subsidiary to the laboratories are two plant breeding 

 stations, one at Njoro and one at Mau Summit, of growing impor- 

 tance, and there are stations devoted principally to native crops 

 in Kavirondo, Kikuyu and at Kilifi on the coast. 



The Veterinary Research Laboratory at Kabete is extremely 

 well equipped and has been described as the Onderstepoort of 

 East Africa. A good deal of research work has been published 

 from Kabete on rinderpest, east coast fever, pleuro-pneumonia, 

 helminthiasis and the virus diseases of sheep and goats. After the 

 visit of Sir John Orr to Kenya in 1929, a government stock farm 

 was established at Naivasha to investigate the feeding and selec- 

 tion of stock; but during the first five years' work, research was 

 hampered by lack of funds and by drought and locust infestations 

 and was mainly confined to practical feeding and costing observa- 

 tions. The Colonial Development Fund has, however, renewed 

 the grant for a period of five years, and under the joint control of 

 Sir John Orr and the chief veterinary research officer, the cor- 

 relation of nutritional and reproductive activity will be studied by 

 Dr. Anderson. The annual reports of the department cover both 

 plant and animal industries, and many results of research are 

 published in a series of bulletins. 



Uganda has a large central agricultural laboratory at Kampala 

 with a fifty-acre experimental plot. At Kawanda there is a cotton 

 seed farm of 400 acres, and at Bukalasa a cotton experimental 

 station of 300 acres (75 cultivated). At a conference held in 1935 

 it was decided to enlarge the Kawanda farm to take the place of 

 Bukalasa and the plots attached to the Kampala laboratories, and 

 to arrange for the technical officers of the agricultural depart- 

 ment to carry on their work at the experimental stations rather 

 than at a central laboratory. This plan took the place of a more 

 ambitious scheme to concentrate all the agricultural operations at 

 Kawanda, which is a far more suitable headquarters for work con- 

 nected with the elephant grass country. 



