(2) Steady assistance to importers, who provide further 

 clothing, food, camp equipment, arms and ammuni- reasons in 

 tion, to visitors. favour of 



(3) Steady advertisement of a country whose retention. 

 main need is capital and yet more capital to develop 



it. 



(4) Steady recreation not only to the visitor but 

 to the resident, and the breeding up of a virile type of 

 colonial. "Waterloo was won on the play grounds of 

 Eton", and the parents of East Africa's youth should 

 think twice before they do away with the game— at 

 any rate until they are quite sure they have some 

 thing else to take its place in maintaining the virility 

 of their sons. 



In conclusion the writer would point out that he 

 has had an opportunity of reading most of the 

 articles which go to make up this book, and he 

 considers it of great significance that none of the 

 writers advocate wholesale slaughter of the game. 



LESLIE J. TARLTOX. 



A NUCLEUS OF CO-OPERATION. 



The B.E.A. Maize Gro>A/ers' 

 Association. 



^rCCESS in co-operation, it has been said, results essentials 

 from starting simply and (piietly, the members of oF SUCCESS, 

 an association gradually educating themselves in the 

 spirit of working together and accustoming them- 

 selves collectively to facing difficulties that from time 

 to time are bound to arise. The co-operati\e spirit 

 is a thing of gradual growth, and under conditions 

 such as usually obtain in a young country like British 

 East Africa, the growth must be very gradual if 

 success is to be the consunnnation. Until co- 

 operative strength and confidence be established, the 

 work of a co-operative organisation should be of the 

 simplest possible nature. 



Holding this view% the B.H.A. Maize Growers' work of thb 

 Association has adopted as its guiding principle the \SS0CIATI0N. 

 old adage " creep before you crawl." The Association 

 is at present simply a maize selling society, i.e., its 



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