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nearly all European vegetables do well. Wheat has been successfully 
cultivated at Tabora: 600 kiloms. inland. ample sacks of Tabora 
wheat, quite b forwarded to Ern are said to have made 
excellent flour, quality and coiour good, and very nutritious. ‘The 
stations are further supplied with a!l eit fruits, and with such trees 
as are likely to thrive (cedar, Pinus excelsa, acacia, and eucalyptus). The 
assistance rendered in this respect by the Director of the Indian Forests 
Department, by the botanical gardens at Natal, Rockhampton (Queens- 
land), and Calcutta, is gratefully acto in the report, and the thanks 
of the Governmeut are expressly conve)ed to these and other foreign 
and German benefa 
** 2, A portion of eae special grant of 2500/7. joies in June, 1895, b 
the Reichstag for the relief of the famine, as wellas the funds collected 
at Zanzibar for the same en ; was expended by the Gu ag in 
providing the natives with grain and sceds (maize, , beans, and 
und-nuts), partly rine t partly under the solve of returning 
double the grant after the first good harvest 
3. An experimental eid nd 80 acres in extent, of Liberian 
coffee and tobacco, has been started at Mohón EAN of the Rufidji Delta. 
“4, Silk culture has been started at Dar-e Saipa; and it is hoped 
‘to obtain Indian experts to direct the experiment. ‘ Unfortunately the 
-efforts of the Consulate at Bombay to find such people have been as yet 
‘fruitless, but it is hoped they may soon be engaged.’ 
. An experimental garden has also been started at Dar-es-S Salaam, 
-and an interesting table is annexed to the East African report, showing 
those plants which would appear to do best. These tabular statements 
would doubtless be of great service to any beiticiand or arborieultural 
"undertaking on the East Coast. 
“6, A station has been founded in the Upper Usambara Hills, to 
fest Mat d oe m yeti Ew be utilised for German colonisation. 
estry ‘ordin was issued by Major von Wissman in 
October 1895, for pib the woods in the Usambara district. 
According to this regulation, the woods for 150 metres wide on the hill 
ridges can only be touchel by special permission of the Governuieal 
Hill-sides above an angle of from 45 to 50 degrees may not, under any 
circumstances, be disafforested, In the valleys s, woods are to be left 30 
tres wide, every 600 metres, at right angles with the lay of the valley ; 
along the brooks the woods are to be left for a space of 50 metres wide 
(either on both or on one side). Intentional contraventions of the above 
‘are punishable with fines up 6000 rs., or 3 months imprisonment; 
unintentional contraventions with at up to 1000 
“8. By an Ordinance, dated July, 1894, the then Governor, a 
von Schele, forbad the preparation of ‘tembo’ (or palm wine) in Eas 
i order to prevent as far as bosdiblé the damage done to "e 
were er amen by fines up to 50rs, or 1 month's i nme 
s Ordinance, being found to be unworkable, was abrogated in 
ler 1895, but the district officials are instructed to S co in their 
power to discour urage the preparation of ‘tembo’; and i suggested 
that the sale of this drink should only be allowed to del. authorised 
persons who should have to take out a license for the same. 
* The sn nl state of the Colony in 1891-95 was *not unfavour- 
EU nes the locust plague, and consequent famine, vd the fall in the 
exchange on the rupee are taken into considerati 
