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four Stations, established about four years ago, where selection is 

 carried out. They are managed by the Cotton Association con- 

 sisting of four operating companies, but assisted also by govern- 

 ment funds. The cultivation of coffee is also encouraged, and a 

 small experimental station has been started recently. Interest in 

 animal husbandry is concentrated in the northern part of the terri- 

 tory where cattle and sheep abound in the Sudan belt. In Chad 

 colony there are five European veterinary officers, a sheep expert 

 to look after imported flocks of merinos, and about one hundred 

 African subordinate veterinary workers. No livestock breeding 

 station has been established yet, but diseases, especially rinderpest 

 and pleuro-pneumonia, are controlled by the use of serum and 

 vaccine made locally. Sheep have been developed particularly in 

 the neighbourhood of Chad where the veterinary service is con- 

 centrated. 



BELGIAN 



As headquarters for agricultural development in the Congo, 

 there is a department of the Ministry for Colonies in Brussels under 

 M. Claessens. In addition to the official services, several Belgian 

 universities, notably that of Louvain, have taken great interest in 

 the problems involved and have developed independent organiza- 

 tions in the Congo itself. The organization of services has been 

 described in detail by E. Leplae (1932). Up to December 1933, 

 agricultural development and research in the Congo was organized 

 by La Regie des Plantations de la Colonic. In that year the Institut 

 National pour I'fitude Agronomique du Congo Beige (INEAC) 

 was established by royal decree, and now corresponds roughly 

 with the official agricultural and veterinary services in the British 

 colonies. Some account of its work is given below. ^ 



The INEAC in 1936 had nine experimental stations, includ- 

 ing five large stations in the Stanleyville district, with a total area 

 of about 2,000 hectares (nearly 5,000 acres), two cotton stations 

 at Bambesa and Gandajika, a station at Nioka for other crops, and 

 the botanic gardens at Eala. 



The five stations near Stanleyville are as follows : i . Yangambi, 

 on the Congo, where research is proceeding on rubber, especially 



^ From notes supplied by M. Claessens of the Ministere des Colonies. 



