through the higher reaches between Nairobi and 

 Chania — a distance of approximately twenty-five 

 miles — with innumerable falls providing power foi 

 water-driven machinery. In addition to these streams 

 — none of which have ever been known to go dry — 

 there are springs of clear fresh water on nearly all 

 farms, providing an excellent water supply for house- 

 hold purposes. 



GENERAL One of the first districts in the Highlands of 



AGRICUL- East Africa to be settled by European colonists, 



TURK. Kyambu has for over ten years beem prodvicing a very 



varied assortment of crops. These have comprised 

 vegetables of practically every known species; cereals 

 of all kinds — maize, oats, wheat, barley — and 

 legumes, as well as tropical, sub-tropical and tem- 

 perate zone fruits. Of late, however, the success 

 which has attended coffee cultivation has served to 

 squeeze out some of the other industries, particularly 

 crops which require seasonal ploughing and sovdng. 

 The word "seasonal" is used intentionally, as two 

 rainy seasons in the year call for six-monthly plough- 

 ing and cropping. 



PRINCIPAL The principal agricultural industries of the 



AGRICUL- administrative district of Kyambu are coffee and 



TURAL wattle, as will be seen from the following returns 



INDUSTRIES. compiled in July, 1916 : — 



The soil and climatic conditions are so favourable 

 to coffee that the present steady annual increase in 

 the area under that crop would be very much greater 

 were it not for fear of insufficient labour to handle 

 it when the production stage has been reached. This 

 is the only factor militating against the more rapid 

 development of the coffee industry in the district. 

 The problem of establishing an organised system of 

 labour supply is already receiving attention, and a 

 solution equitable to all the interests concerned is 

 looked for in the near future. 



COFFEE Kyambu coffee stands without a superior if 



DISEASES. the price it brings on the world's markets be taken 



as a criterion of value, and it invariably commands 



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