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The control measures are not specially peculiar, although 

 where cheap coloured labour is available hand-picking may 

 be more commonly used than in other countries dependent 

 upon white labour. A long dry season enables advantage 

 to be taken of clean cultivation. Owing to the fact that the 

 country is being opened up by a keen class of agriculturists 

 who are experimenting with new crops and are not bound by 

 the hard and fast traditions of old farming communities, the 

 entomologists are frequently consulted and co-operation in 

 experimental work is readily secured. 



Uganda. In this rich tropical country offering great 

 opportunities for entomological investigations, Mr. C. C. 

 Gowdy carries on his work as Government Entomologist 

 single-handed. The study of the Tse-tse fly problem is not 

 carried on by the Department of Agriculture, but independently 

 of this Department, as I shall show later. Mr. Gowdy is 

 stationed at Kampala and the size of the country and meth- 

 ods of travel, namely, by the use of porters, do not permit 

 of a very thorough study of any one problem, especially as his 

 only assistants are natives, who are constitutionally lazy, but 

 nevertheless make good collectors. 



The importation of plants and seeds is regulated by Govern- 

 ment Ordinances. There is a single port of entry, Kampala, 

 and there all imported plants are inspected and, if necessary, 

 fumigated. The importation of cotton seed is prohibited; all 

 plants from Ceylon, coffee plants and coffee other than roasted 

 beans and ground coffee, are prohibited without special consent. 

 A Plant Pest Board has been created, one of its objects being 

 to facilitate the reporting of the existence of pests and the 

 enforcement of preventive or remedial measures. 



The chief entomological problems relating to agriculture in 

 Uganda are connected with principle crops, namely, cotton, 

 coffee, cacao and Para rubber. Termites and locusts also 

 demand attention. 



Undoubtedly the most serious entomological problem in 

 Uganda at the present time is the suppression of sleeping sick- 

 ness by the control of the Tse-tse fly. For about thirteen years 

 this disease, which in the earlier part of the last decade was 

 responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousands of the 

 inhabitants of Uganda, has been studied at Entebbe by the 



