402 SCIENCE IN AFRICA 



books on native plants, animals, methods of agriculture, arts and 

 crafts, etc. 



In addition to these centres of higher education which it is hoped 

 to develop in course of time to a University standard, several 

 territories have their own agricultural colleges attached to the 

 agricultural departments for the purpose of providing specialized 

 training for prospective government service. Thus in Uganda, 

 after three years at Makerere College, agricultural students are 

 taken into the department of agriculture for two years' special 

 training. Nine such students were absorbed by the department 

 in 1937 as native agricultural assistants (on probation). For 

 the special training there is a Superintendent of Agricultural 

 Education assisted by three full-time agricultural officers, who are 

 seconded for one or more tours at a time for the purpose. On the 

 veterinary side there is a small school at the veterinary laboratory, 

 providing a three-year course for boys who have taken their pre- 

 science course of two years at Makerere. These are intended solely 

 as native veterinary assistants in Government service, to replace 

 the more or less untrained assistants usually employed and Euro- 

 pean subordinate staff. 



In the Southern Provinces of Nigeria there is an agricultural 

 college at Ibadan to which pupils go after two years at the Higher 

 College at Yaba. The research staff of the Ibadan laboratories 

 assist in the teaching. In the Northern Provinces of Nigeria the 

 subordinate staff of the agricultural department is trained at the 

 Samaru Farm School, being selected from students passing 

 out of the Higher College at Katsina. Each pupil has a holding 

 of four acres, and also has to work on the experimental plots. 

 The organization for specialized agricultural education in the 

 Gold Coast is undergoing some changes, since Cadbury Hall 

 at Kumasi, the former training centre for prospective service 

 in the agricultural department, was closed down during the 

 depression years. Meanwhile developments in agriculture at 

 Achimota College have taken place and arrangements are now 

 going forward to establish a settlement of highly trained agri- 

 culturalists after completing their courses at the College. An 

 estate has been acquired, and it is hoped to develop the research 

 side of agriculture as well as to demonstrate the value of higher 



