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PREFACE 



THE need of a reliable book dealing with Uganda 

 has become urgent owing to the recent rapid 

 extension of planting in that country. Some of 

 the planters who now settle there have had large 

 experience of the work in other countries, while 

 others possess no knowledge whatever of the 

 practice of agriculture; but all of them alike suffer 

 from ignorance of the peculiar conditions under 

 which plantations have to be worked in the 

 Uganda region. For their benefit generally, as 

 well as for the information of the large body of 

 investors in the United Kingdom who are now 

 interesting themselves in Uganda properties, this 

 book has been written. 



The authors realise the imperfections and 

 incompleteness of the work in many directions; 

 but as some years must elapse before the Uganda 

 plantations are of sufficient age to allow of 

 definite conclusions being arrived at on certain 



