APPENDIX. 6. THE DEPARTMENT reserves the right to supervise the ginning and to decide the time and manner in which the crop shall be ginned and delinted. 7. THE GROWER shall bear the cost of ginning, delinting, and bagging of the seed. 8. The lint produced on the seed plot shall be the sole property of the GROWER. 9. Immediately ginning is completed, the DEPARTMENT shall hold sole and entire control of all the seed produced on the seed plot, and shall, in its own discretion, regulate the selling and despatching of the seed. 10. (a) THE GROWER shall receive payment from the DEPARTMENT for all multiplied seed sold less 4d. (one halfpenny) per pound which shall be deemed accrued to the DEPARTMENT in payment of expenses incurred and services rendered. (b) THE DEPARTMENT shall fix the. selling price of the multiplied seed. 11. THE GROWER shall be entitled, free of charge, to one- tenth of the seed produced by himself from Government seed, and he shall pay all transport expenses in connection therewith. 12. THE DEPARTMENT reserves the right at any time to cancel this agreement should the GROWER fail to conform to ths clauses laid down herein. 13. This Agreement stands for the season 1925-26 only. (14) LEGISLATIVE MEASURES IN THE CONTROL OF INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASE. (Paper by T. J. Anderson, Entomologist, Kenya.—T.C.(C)E. & M.1.) The importance of agriculture to the Colony of Kenya is well recognised and, as it is the basic industry, it is logical to assume that nothing should be left undone to place it on a sound and permanent basis and to protect it from pests and diseases. Development, especially in recent years, has been rapid: for example, between June 1920 and June 1925 the acreage under cultivation had more than doubled. Within a comparative short time, 400,000 acres of bush or grass land have been put under crops; the natural grass has been pastured and acres of forest have been cleared. All these operations have to some extent relieved pests and diseases from the restrictions imposed by their natural associations and have so disturbed the normal balance which nature had striven to maintain through long years that pests and diseases have become much more prominent and are responsible for increasing damage and consequent loss. Again, during the Colony’s development, thousands of consign- ments of plants and seeds have been imported from overseas, bringing with them the risk of the introduction of new pests and diseases. 299