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British East Africa. I have not seen any figures giving 

 the total quantity of wheat produced in the East African 

 Protectorate and Uganda, but a report on agricultural 

 matters says that 3,000 to 4,000 acres were sown in one 

 recent season on the " plains of Njoro." The natives 

 appear to prefer maize, beans, millet, sesame, sweet and 

 English potatoes, yams, bananas, etc., all of which can 

 readily be grown in the country. White people want 

 wheaten products, and there is a large demand for them, 

 but Mr. Macdonald, the Director of Agriculture, E.A.P., 

 in a letter which I have received from him, says that 

 " with the better control of stock diseases, cattle raising, 

 dairying, and pig breeding are being given more atten- 

 tion than in the past, and are likely to become more 

 important branches of farming than wheat growing." 

 However, certain varieties of wheat appear to thrive on 

 the highlands of the interior, and I will refer to the matter 

 later on. 



Belgian Congo. I have seen some interesting records 

 of wheat growing in the Katanga district of the Belgian 

 Congo, but the quantity produced appears to be very 

 small. 



Rhodesia. The white man needs wheaten products, 

 and the natives " who have come in contact with 

 civilization prefer wheaten or Boer-meal bread to their 

 ordinary diet, while Cape boys and natives of a more 

 advanced type from the South African Union, and 

 employed in Rhodesia as transport drivers, usually receive 

 a daily ration of unsifted wheat meal (Boer meal), which 

 they make into bread. There thus already exists in 

 Rhodesia a considerable demand for wheaten products, 

 but this is mainly met by the importation of flour from 

 Canada and Australia, and Boer meal grown in the South 

 African Union . . . ." " There is no variety of wheat 

 indigenous to Rhodesia, or, indeed, to any other part of 

 South Africa, nor is the crop ever grown by the Rhodesian 

 natives," but a great deal of experimental work has been 

 done by the Rhodesian Department of Agriculture, and 

 the results obtained indicate that Rhodesia in time will 

 produce enough wheat to satisfy its own requirements, 

 and be able to export some into the Belgian Congo State. 



