The acreage under this most valuable crop is being coffee, 

 added to yearly, and in a short time the Rongai Val- 

 ley coffee will be known on the home markets by its 

 distinctive bean. 



The output of citrus products from the Rongai citrus. 

 Valley is likely to be considerable within a few years. 

 The acreage under citrus is being rapidly increased, 

 and prospects are most encouraging. Trees bear very 

 heavily, and so encouraging have been the results 

 obtained so far, that settlers are giving this crop in- 

 creasing attention, and an extracting factory is already 

 being talked of. 



Great interest is being taken in this crop in the tobacco. 

 district, from which tobacco has already been put on 

 the market, with good results. Messrs. Armstrong 

 Bros., who took first prize for their tobacco at the 

 last Nakuru Agricultural vShow, and whose cigars are 

 favourably known on the local markets, have erected 

 a modern flue barn for the curing of their crops, and 

 their success is proving a powerful stimulant to the 

 industry in the district. 



Flax, Soya Beans, Ground Nuts, Cotton, Tea, Up- miscellan- 

 land Rice, and numerous varieties of fruit and eous crops. 

 timber trees are all being tried, many of them with 

 great success. These help to open out a wide field 

 of choice products to be grow^n by the incoming 

 settler. 



The grazing of the Rongai \'alley is composed of stock and 

 Tall Oat grass, Rhodes grass, conch and another dairying. 

 creeping variety, which seem to make up an ideal 

 ration for cattle. In no other part of the country has 

 the writer seen cattle do better. Even oxen that 

 are being continuously hard worked not only keep fit, 

 but fatten, with no other feed than the wild grasses; 

 and stock from adjacent hills sent down to the Valley 

 when grazing there is scarce shew wonderful improve- 

 ment in a month or two. Owing to distance from 

 the Railway dairying is only carried on in a small way 

 at present, but is capable of considerable expansion. 

 Pigs do well, and can be raised at small cost, so that 

 'when an export trade is established the district should 

 he able to supply its quota. 



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