and over during the coffee boom. After 1913, how- 

 ever, the demand for land dropped and prices fell 

 considerably. 



NEW TITLES. Recently information has been received that the 



Secretary of State has ruled that no more freehold 

 grants of land are to be made and the Governor is 

 unable to sanction any further sales by natives to 

 Europeans. All that can now be got is a lease up 

 to 99 years with two revisions of rent during the 

 period. 



The reason for this change is unknown, but as 

 there is considerable opposition to it amongst all 

 sections of the community, and not least amongst the 

 natives themselves, there is a faint hope that it may 

 be given up. Of its effect on the development of the 

 country there is no doubt. 



ABUNDANCE 

 OF LAND. 



There is abundance of land suitable for planting 

 in the Protectorate. Vast areas are almost un- 

 inhabited or occupied only by the ^owner and his 

 family. An infinitesimal proportion is cultivated by 

 the natives. 



The only crops which have been successfully 

 grown by Europeans are rubber, coffee and cocoa. 

 Attempts have been made with cotton, tobacco and 

 other crops, but with little success. All the cotton 

 which is produced in Uganda is grown by natives on 

 the extremely wasteful plan of a cotton plot for 

 every person regardless of the suitability or other- 

 wise of the locality. The Government controls the 

 production of the crop and spends a good deal of 

 money on it. The Agricultural Department may 1)e 

 said to be mainly occupied by this one crop. 



RUBBER Of the three crops which Europeans are grow- 



DISTRICTS. ing, rubber may be said to offer the best prospects, 



and it is rapidly becoming the favourite crop. The 

 oldest rubber is in Kyagwe, which is the district with 

 the heaviest rainfall. Still, rubber is doing well in 

 Busoga, Mityana and Masindi, and there is no reason 

 to fear it will not do well over most of the planting 

 districts. 



Coffee, as I have already mentioned, is not the 

 safe crop it was expected to be. Despite this, a good 



