the staff have been erected, and a further stone build- 

 ing is now being commenced for the Station Assistant. 



Five hexagonal huts of stone and iron, vdth the accommoda- 

 necessary conveniences, are provided for the use of nos for 

 pupils or young would-be-settlers from home or else- pupils. 

 where, who are able to spend a few months or more 

 at the farm, acquiring local knowledge before taking 

 up farming on their own. Enquiries from military 

 men and others are being received as to the conditions 

 under which a course of training in agriculture can 

 be undertaken, and it is anticipated that at the close 

 of hostilities, the hostel huts will again be in request. 



This institution consists of three large stone build- kiii\»RMA- 

 ings capable of housing about a hundred inmates, and tory. 

 the warders. Suitable outhouse accommodation is 

 also provided. During the past year the juvenile 

 offenders averaged 70 monthly. The youths are 

 regularly employed in the lighter operations of the 

 farm such as milking, care of pigs and other live 

 stock, budding of citrus and other trees, cultivation 

 and curing of tobacco, pruning of coffee trees and 

 curing of the berries, treatment of flax, rearing of 

 silk worms, etc., etc. Elementary instruction in 

 school is also afforded the inmates. On completion 

 of his term of detention a certificate is given each 

 youth stating the special branch of agricultural or 

 horticulture in which he has become efficient. 



This is situated on the higher farm lands adjoin- 1 vtiiologicai, 

 ing the railway, where there is a siding at Mile 333. : \boratory. 

 For its size the Laboratory is said to be one of tht 

 best equipped in all Africa. 



The position of this is between the main nursery i..\t(jmological 

 and fruit section. Here, and in the fields, are studied laboratory. 

 and worked out the life histories of pests, etc., and 

 control measures devised for dealing with the same. 

 A fairly extensive collection of entomological speci- 

 mens has been got together and is constantly being 

 added to. Experiments in the rearing of Eri and 

 other silk worms, are being conducted. 



The cultivations are on two sections of the farm, arabian 

 one on the south side of the road near the entrance coffff. 

 to the farm from the Kirawa end, and the other on 



