Q28 SCIENCE IN AFRICA 



In the government agricultural services French West Africa had 

 the following European staff in 1936: 49 Ingenieurs d' agriculture, 

 76 Conducteurs des travaux agricoles, 13 Controleurs de colonisa- 

 tion, and 10 Surveillants, and in addition, each colony has a 

 subordinate staff of African Moniteurs. On the veterinary side 

 there are 37 Veterinaires Europeens, 48 Veterinaires Auxiliaires 

 Indigenes and 2 1 Surveillants au service zootechnique (Europeans) . 

 Most of the European veterinary officers, like the doctors in the 

 medical service, are drawn from the military services, but some 

 civil veterinarians are now employed and receive special courses 

 of instruction in France at the Institut de Medecine Veterinaire 

 Exotique at Alfort, which was established in 1920. The African 

 veterinary staff is trained at Bamako in the French Sudan, where 

 a flourishing veterinary school provides a full three years' course 

 {see Chapter XIV). 



For the improvemicnt of cultivation the following experimental 

 or teaching centres exist. In Senegal there is a large station for 

 studies on groundnuts at M'Bambey and a farming school at 

 Louga for improving native cultivation of this crop. There are 

 also the gardens of Sor and Hann, the latter situated close to 

 Dakar, and both serving primarily as nurseries for fruit and 

 ornamental trees. In the Sudan, in addition to the stations of the 

 Ofhce du Niger mentioned above, there are the farming schools 

 of M'Pesoba, Zamblara, and Kakoulou which give practical 

 instruction in the cultivation of cotton and groundnuts, and 

 distribute seed. At Bamako and Katibougou there are nurseries 

 for trees combined with horticultural stations. In the JVigej- Colony 

 there are the stations of Kolo and Tarma as controlling centres 

 for colonization schemes and for agricultural instruction. There 

 is a pasture station at Filingue and another instructional centre at 

 Kontoukale. In French Guinea the most important station is at 

 Kindia, where there are laboratories and experimental stations 

 for bananas. There are also the gardens of Camayenne for trials 

 of industrial plants, with nurseries attached, the experimental and 

 acclimatization station of Kankan in Upper Guinea for cotton, 

 rice, groundnuts, and tobacco, the farming school of Tolo, and 

 farms in charge of the Societes de Prevoyance at Telimele and 

 Macenta. The Ivory Coast has an important experimental station 



