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held under the auspices of the Conference of East African Gover- 

 nors. They include a general agricultural research conference at 

 Amani in 1931 (Conference, East Africa, 193 1), a conference on 

 the co-ordination of agricultural research and plant protection in 

 1934 (Conference, East Africa, 1934a), and another in the same 

 year on the co-ordination of veterinary research (Conference, 

 East Africa, 1934b), and in 1936 another general agricultural 

 conference at Amani on questions relating to the future of research 

 in East Africa (Conference, East Africa, 1936). Other similar con- 

 ferences of soil chemists and trypanosomiasis workers are referred 

 to in Chapters V and X. In West Africa there have been two con- 

 ferences of Agricultural Officers, the first at Ibadan in Nigeria 

 during 1927, and the second in the Gold Coast in 1929 (Confer- 

 ence, West Africa, 1930). A vetinerary conference was held in 

 Nigeria, at Vom, in 1932, attended by representatives from 

 Nigeria and the adjacent French colonies of Niger, Chad, and 

 French Cameroons. 



Outside the government organizations, but in close co-operation 

 with them, the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation maintains eight 

 experimental farms in Africa and employs several experts at 

 government laboratories. In Nigeria at Daudawa, on the road 

 between Zaria and Sokoto, a seed farm of 1,280 acres (not all 

 cultivated) was founded in 1926, and has a staff of two officers. In 

 Nyasaland at Domira Bay, Lake Nyasa, a station was founded in 

 1930: it has 150 acres, and a staff of three research workers. In 

 Northern Rhodesia a selection expert works for the Corporation 

 at Mazabuka. In the Sudan a staff of three is maintained at the 

 Shambat laboratory. In Southern Rhodesia there is Gatooma 

 Station (340 acres, staff of three) , for which Government grants a 

 subsidy and pays the cost of labour and experiments. The Union 

 of South Africa has the largest of the stations, at Barberton, Trans- 

 vaal, with a staff of eight. In addition there are two subsidiary 

 stations at Magut in Natal (staff of one), and at Bremersdorp in 

 Swaziland (staff of two). The Corporation has maintained a sup- 

 ply of trained officers for their scientific and agricultural activities 

 in Africa by means of a scholarship and training system at Cam- 

 bridge and Trinidad, similar to that for the colonial agricultural 

 departments. This was started in 1922. 



