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MAIZE 



Addendum. — The possibilities of Rhodesia have been re- 

 ferred to in IT 52. Average yields of ten (and even twenty) 

 bags of maize, year after year, are reported. It is stated that 

 about one-third of the whole of the Mazoe Valley country 

 could be planted to maize and that in the Kafue Valley of 

 N.W. Rhodesia there are vast stretches of level alluvial soils, 

 suitable for maize, recalling the level plains of the North 

 American Corn-belt. The total area of Rhodesia is approxi- 

 mately 250,000,000 acres ; if only one-fiftieth part were planted 

 to maize, and yielded on the average only 7 muids per acre, 

 the country would be producing 35,000,000 muids. 



