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[TRANSLATION.] 



GROWING OF COTTON AND RAISING OP CATTLE IN 

 SOUTHERN ITALIAN SOMALILAND. 



The writer, who has recently explored Southern Italian 

 Somaliland for the purpose of carrying out researches and 

 agrarian studies, declares that many of the fertile regions of 

 the Colony offer most favourable natural conditions for an 

 extensive cultivation of cotton. In view, however, of the 

 present economic condition of Somaliland, it would be neces- 

 sary for very strong financial organizations to be formed, 

 which, by establishing extensive cotton plantations, may, at 

 the same time, remove the most serious difficulties in the way 

 of economic agrarian development. 



Amongst the most important questions to be solved in con- 

 nection with the agrarian improvement of Somaliland, as exist- 

 ing at present, the writer places that of the necessary 

 agricultural labour, that of the agrarian crops which may be 

 successfully tried, side by side with the cultivation of cotton 

 and the necessity of an Anglo-Italian Entente with respect to 

 the rational agrarian utilization of the waters of the Juba 

 river. 



One of the most interesting problems of the Italian Colony, 

 whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean, is also the 

 raising of cattle for the supply of meat. The conditions of 

 the natural and economic surroundings are favourable to such 

 an undertaking; the writer, who has occupied himself very 

 much with this question, gives general rules for the zoo- 

 technical and industrial aspects of this industry. 



COTTON POSSIBILITIES IN ITALIAN SOMALILAND AND 

 JUB ALAND (BRITISH EAST AFRICA). 



By Dr. R. ONOR, 

 Director of Agriculture for Italian Somaliland. 



[No abstract supplied by the author.] 



