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oil would be a matter for experiment in particular districts, but 
for such work it would appear that success could only be expected 
by a proper system of co-operation amongst the growers. 
a number of small holdings, each about one Cheshire acre (a 
little more than two English acres) in extent, at Narrow 
Moss, and on a farm near by. These small heldings were 
excellently cropped and very clean. The tenant of 
XXXIX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Baobab trees used for Storage of water.—In Kew Bulletin, 
191 » Pp. 9, an extract was given from an article in the 
Geographical Journal on the storage of water in the hollow 
trunks of Baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) in the Sudan e 
have recently received the following account of these trees from 
an officer in the Darfur Campaign : — 
scrape a small pond at the foot, 
and after a shower everyone fe out to fill beldi trees. A 
man stands at the top of the bole about 20 ft. up, hauls the 
water up in a skin bucket and pours it into the tree. It kee 
very sweet and is better than well water. Ali Din Nar frightened 
people by promising to send across and cut the tebeldis; if 
~ had done it, the country would have become uninhabitable. 
the one. has ever seen a young tebeldi, and no one knows how ol 
h © custom is; but most of Kordofan must have been unin 
abited, except by nomads in the rains, until someone thought 
of filling the trees.”’ : 
