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dens have been used as a centre for collecting living specimens of 

 the indigenous flora and for acclimatization experiments. Some 

 3,500 species of plants are growing there, of which about half are 

 indigenous. In addition to work in the gardens, which is to be 

 reorganized by the INEAG on more scientific principles, experi- 

 ments are progressing at Eala on the breeding of dwarf cattle from 

 Dahomey and Guinea, which show resistance to trypanosomiasis. 

 There are also at Kisantu the famous botanical gardens of Fr. 

 Gillet. 



The INEAG proposes to reclaim immediately the old high- 

 altitude station of Mulungu-Tahibinda at Kivu, about 2,000 

 metres above sea-level, for the purpose of studying arabica coffee, 

 quinine, tea, and essential oil plants, all of which have been 

 established there. In the Bas-Gongo suitable land is being sought 

 for development as a station for tropical fruit — bananas, citrus, 

 pineapples, etc. This may be either at Mayumbe, or between 

 Matadi and Leopoldville. 



For the control of animal diseases there is a corps of European 

 veterinarians, numbering some thirty-five, who have received a 

 short course of training at the Institute of Tropical Medicine at 

 Brussels in addition to having the usual qualifications. A labora- 

 tory for the production of serum and vaccine is situated at Kisenyi 

 in Ruanda. 



In addition to the INEAG there is an independent organiza- 

 tion known as the Gentres Agronomiques de I'Universite de Lou- 

 vain au Gongo (GADULAG), which aims directly at improv- 

 ing native agricultural methods and local food resources. Like its 

 sister body the FOMULAG (see Ghapter XV), this originated 

 in 1 93 1 at the Gongress at Louvain of the Academica Unio 

 Gatholica Adjuvans Missiones (AUGAM). Up to now activity 

 has been concentrated in the region of Kisantu-Lemfu, in the 

 Madimba territory of the Bas-Gongo, where there was already a 

 flourishing Jesuit mission, so that it was easy to get into direct 

 touch with the natives. 



The principal Belgian technical publication is the Bulletin 

 agricole du Congo Beige, which contains lesults of research. In 

 addition, the Revue d' Agriculture et d'^levage, privately published, 

 is partly subsidized by the agricultural department of the Gongo. 



