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[ TRANSLATION. ] 
GROWING OF COTTON AND RAISING OF CATTLE IN 
SOUTHERN ITALIAN SOMALILAND. 
The writer, who has recently explored Southern Italian 
Somaliland for the purpose of carrying out researches and 
agrarian studies, declares that many of the fertile regions of 
the Colony offer most favourable natural conditions for an 
extensive cultivation of cotton. In view, however, of the 
present economic condition of Somaliland, it would be neces- 
sary for very strong financial organizations to be formed, 
which, by establishing extensive cotton plantations, may, at 
the same time, remove the most serious difficulties in the way 
of economic agrarian development. 
Amongst the most important questions to be solved in con- 
nection with the agrarian improvement of Somaliland, as exist- 
ing at present, the writer places that of the necessary 
agricultural labour, that of the agrarian crops which may be 
successfully tried, side by side with the cultivation of cotton 
and the necessity of an Anglo-Italian Entente with respect to 
the rational agrarian utilization of the waters of the Juba 
river. 
One of the most interesting problems of the Italian Colony, 
whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean, is also the 
raising of cattle for the supply of meat. The conditions of 
the natural and economic surroundings are favourable to such 
an undertaking; the writer, who has occupied himself very 
much with this question, gives general rules for the zoo- 
technical and industrial aspects of this industry. 
COTTON POSSIBILITIES IN ITALIAN SOMALILAND AND 
JUBALAND (BRITISH EAST AFRICA). 
By Dr. R. Onor, 
Director of Agriculture for Italian Somaliland. 
[No abstract supplied by the author. ] 
