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education among Africans who will subsequently return to the 

 land. 



In Sierra Leone the African instructors of the agricultural 

 department were formerly men with a high degree of education. 

 After a period of employment of farmers, with little education, 

 it is proposed to return to the old system. The instructors are to 

 have a two-year agricultural course at Njala, followed by two 

 years on an experimental farm before beginning work. 



In French West Africa agricultural officers are appointed to 

 tour given districts, in which they instruct native farmers and 

 advise the Societes de Prevoyance, and they also supervise the demon- 

 stration farms in the villages. Each school has a small farm at- 

 tached to it, on which the pupils work. At Bamako in the French 

 Sudan a system of higher education in veterinary work has been 

 developed to provide African veterinarians for the stock country 

 of the Sudan and Guinea. The staff of the veterinary school, 

 which has been in existence for fifteen years, consists of an African 

 Chef du Service as director and a veterinary surgeon. In addition, 

 three medical officers from Bamako, an officer from the agricul- 

 tural service, a chemist from the medical service and an adminis- 

 trative officer assist in the teaching. There are fifty students who 

 take a three-year course, and then obtain a diploma before enter- 

 ing the Government service. Five or ten students are turned out 

 each year. The African subordinates for the veterinary service 

 take a two-month course before beginning field work. 



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More than go per cent of European farmers in Africa south ol 

 the Sahara reside in the Union, Southern Rhodesia, and the 

 Kenya highlands, and in the last named considerable areas of 

 land are also owned by Indian immigrants. In these areas the 

 greater part of the good agricultural and pastoral land is farmed 

 by non-natives. European settlement has taken place also in 

 small parts of Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, especially the 

 extreme north and south of the territory, Tanganyika, especially 

 the southern highlands, and Uganda, where a few European 

 estates are situated about the foothills of Mt. Ruwenzori. In 



