In some districts sheep breeding is making steady 

 headway, and where maintained in sufficient numbers 

 to keep the grass short sheep are proving successful. 

 Pigs are being kept in increasing numbers, sufficient 

 to justify the erection of a bacon factory. 



jMaize is growing in varying quantities on practi- MAIZK. 

 cally every farm. Yields of 20 bags per acre and even 

 more are obtained, and notw'ithstanding the heavy 

 cost of transporting to Londiani can be disposed of 

 at a fair profit. When the new railway is running, 

 maize should be a source of steady income, besides 

 providing the newcomer going in for coffee or citrus 

 with a means of reducing his working costs v/hile 

 waiting for his plantation to reach the productive 

 stage. 



During the past few years the cultivation of WHEAT. 

 wheat has assumed considerable importance, and 

 many farmers are producing large quantities. The 

 Plateau compares very favourably with any other 

 part of the Protectorate as a wheat country, as 

 regards both yield and quality. On some farms rust 

 has proved troublesome, but as the result of govern- 

 ment and private experiments rust resisting varieties 

 of seed are being found, and it should be only a 

 matter of a few years when the Uasin Gishu Plateau 

 is producing wheat on a very large scale. Wheat 

 growers can obtain the use of a threshing machine 

 from So\' and can, if they so desire get their wheat 

 converted into flour at the same place. 



Though the appearance of flax on the Plateau flax. 

 is very recent, it already bids fair to outstrip all other 

 crops in popularity. One factory is already operating, 

 two others of large capacity are at the time of writing 

 nearing completion, while several others are in course 

 of construction. This is sufficient evidence that 

 growers are' perfectly satisfied with the prospects 

 ahead of them. Sample shipments sent to England 

 have been most favourably reported on, and realised 

 £115 per ton. 



So far none of the diseases met with in other COFFEE 

 coffee producing areas of B.E.A. have appeared on the 

 Plateau, and though these may not have proved 

 serious in the parts where found it is as well to be 

 without them. The larger part of the Coffee area of 



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