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for oil palms at La Me, where cultivation trials, selection, and 

 analyses of the products are carried out. At the agricultural 

 stations at Bingerville and Gagnoa there are nurseries for bananas, 

 coffee and cacao. There is an agricultural school at Saria, where 

 cereals, cotton, and kapok are the principal crops dealt with, a 

 farm at Poundou for groundnuts, cereals, and cotton, and a nursery 

 at Basfora for fruit, forest, and ornamental trees. Dahomey has an 

 important experimental station for oil-palms at Pobe. There are 

 also a garden at Porto Novo with nurseries for coco-nut and 

 coffee in the neighbourhood, a station at Niaouli for educational 

 work and the study of coffee and fruit trees, and an experimental 

 farm at Ina for groundnuts, cotton, cereals, and castor-oil. 



On the side of animal husbandry the Sudan is the most important 

 colony, and has a station at Sotuba for cattle, sheep, and small 

 stock, as well as three stations for merino and karakal sheep and 

 Angora goats at El-Oualadji, Nioro, and Nara. The goats have 

 been introduced with success and have been inter-bred with the 

 local stock. In Senegal the groundnut station at M'Bambey also 

 carries out work with sheep and donkeys. In French Guinea the 

 farm at Telimele deals with catde. The Ivory Coast has two 

 stations for cattle and small stock at Bouake and Koroko. In 

 Dahomey the station in Ina deals with cattle, and in Mauritania 

 there is an experimental sheep farm at Mederdre. Research on 

 animal diseases and the preparation of sera and vaccines is central- 

 ized at the veterinary laboratory at Bamako in the Sudan. Branch 

 laboratories, mainly for sera production, exist in all the colonies 

 except Mauritania, and the Pasteur Institute's laboratory at Kin- 

 dia in French Guinea also co-operates in this work. 



Unfortunately the French services in agriculture and animal 

 husbandry do not publish annual reports, and so the results of 

 research at the stations mentioned above are somewhat scattered. 

 Among other journals the Bulletin du Comite d^ etudes historiques et 

 scientijiques de VA.O.F. contains a number of such reports, whilst the 

 Annales Agricoles de VAfrique Occidental, published at Bingerville, is 

 a most interesting new venture. 



In French Equatorial Africa parts of the country have, like French 

 West Africa, proved highly suitable for cotton and a considerable 

 organization exists for the development of this crop. There are 



