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PART II. 
AGRICULTURE. 
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. 
The normal constitution of the Agricultural Section was as follows : 
Mr. Alex. Holm (Chairman)..... Director of Agriculture, Kenya. 
Mons. Van den Abeele............. Agricultural Officer, Belgian Congo. 
Mr. V. A. Beckley............... Agricultural Chemist, Kenya. 
Cavalieri Bicchieri................. Royal Italian Consul, representing 
Italian Somaliland. 
Mr. G. J. L. Burton................Plant Breeder, Kenya. 
Mr. A. H. Kirby.................... Director of Agriculture, Tanganyika. 
Mr. V. H. Kirkham................. Director of Agriculture, Zanzibar. 
Mr. T. D. Maitland................. Botanist, Uganda. 
Capt. ¥. J. Sheedy................. Acting Chief Veterinary Officer, 
Tanganyika. 
Mr. S. Simpson......................Director of Agriculture, Uganda. 
Mr. A. D. le Poer Trench.........Coffee Officer, Kenya. 
Mr. E. J. Wortley................... Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland. 
Technical Secretary ... Mr. V. A. Beckley. 
Mr. A. Walter, Statistician to the Governors’ Conference; Colonel 
A. G. Doherty, Chief Veterinary Officer, Kenya; Colonel R. B. Turner, 
Trade Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, also attended for 
discussions on certain items. 
THE CHAIRMAN (Mr. Holm): ‘* Gentlemen, before proceeding 
with the business of the Conference may I express to you, not only 
officially but personally, a welcome to Kenya and to the Offices of the 
Department of Agriculture. In ordinary circumstances, I should have 
wished to have prepared an address for this Section of the 
Conference, but it was not known until recently what were the 
arrangements for the Chairmanship of the various sections, and I hope 
under the circumstances that you will be disposed to regard the paper* 
which I read before the General Conference yesterday on Agriculture 
in Kenya ’ as one appropriate for this Section. If there is anything 
contained in that paper which any member of this Section would 
wish to question before the Conference, I should be glad if you would 
do so, and I will deal with it to the best of my ability. 
** With these preliminary remarks, I think we might ascertain the 
wishes of members with regard to the procedure of this Section. You 
will remember the President’s remarks yesterday on the way he 
suggested the Conference should be conducted and which were 
generally accepted. I should explain that a few of us got together 
with a view to making tentative arrangements with regard to the 
business of the proceedings, and we came to the conclusion that each 
Section had better start to-day with those specific subjects which are 
peculiar to it and that later on joint and general meetings should take 
place. We came to the conclusion that, where certain subjects were 
to be discussed, two Sections should be combined; for example, Cotton 
and Agriculture, or Cotton and Entomology and Mycology, or again 
Agriculture with Entomology and Mycology. That is the way in 
* For text see Part V., Chapter I.