At five or six years the trees reach maturity and 

 are ready for stripping. The usual method is to 

 make an incision about four feet from the ground 

 and peel the bark well down to the root in strips. 

 After that the tree is cut down, and the remainder 

 of the bark of the trunk and of the thicker branches 

 is removed, and the whole sent with speed to the 

 extract factory. At the present time the question of 

 the erection of such a factory is receiving the 

 careful consideration of planters, and with it the full 

 utilization of all the timber, which at present is only 

 used for firewood, but has very considerable value 

 for other purposes. It is hoped that before long 

 machinery for dealing with all the products will be 

 erected, and there is little doubt that when the 

 whole is in working order, wattle growing in British 

 Kast Africa will be among the industries giving the 

 highest returns per acre for the time, labour and 

 capital expended. 



W. E. D. KNIGHT. 



As a result of a visit to South Africa by the 

 writer after the foregoing was written, it is expected 

 that the proprietors of the extract factories in Natal 

 will shortly visit this country with a view to the 

 erection of a factory. In the meantime arrangements 

 are being made to export the bark ground and pressed 

 into bales. 



W. E. D. K. 



WHEAT. 



gy^RLY Several years ago wheat breeding and testing 



EXPERIMENT. was started on a scientific scale on Ivord Delamere's 

 Njoro estate. The writer, though he was not in the 

 district during the early stages of the work, was on 

 hand during the final stages and has had an oppor- 

 tunity of handling the seeds that were bred at this 

 place for the last few years. He believes that the 

 work has been of great service to the wheat industry 

 of the country, and that a permanent rust resistant 

 wheat has been finally obtained. The great purpose 

 of Ivord Delamere's experimental work has, there- 

 fore, been accomplished — namely, to obtain a wheat 

 for this climate that has the characteristics necessary 



