Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1726007022

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-104966

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Sachsenberg, Ewald http://d-nb.info/gnd/101406304

Title:: Wirtschaftliches Verpacken

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: VDI-Verlag

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 242 Seiten; Illustrationen

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Verpackungsmaterialien

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PART 11. The native agriculturist then appears to need training, to need new seed, to be encouraged in the production of pure marketable types of produce, and perhaps to undertake a definite minimum of cultivation each year. The white man’s burden in Africa appears to be to supply the driving force through sheer personality, through legal action and perhaps by economic manipulation. Waar pokes THE Pastoranist Lack? He lacks water supplies, new blood in his stock, in himself the just commercial appraisement of his livestock, the desire to possess anything save livestock and women; in other words, generally, he wishes to be left alone, to increase his herds, to do as he pleases and wander if he wills it. He is seeking for his cattle immunity against disease, asking for inoculations, but in the main, the costs of these inoculations and such taxation as he may be called upon to pay, together with his small needs, are easily met from the sale of perhaps one animal and several skins or hides each year. As an instance of the rapidity with which tribes can accumulate livestock, the following is an example: The Samburu tribe, weak in numbers, to-day but 10,000 of all ages, fifteen to twenty years ago, were sheep and goat owning people who lived mainly in sheep country. On account of the presence of disease in their sheep and in the absence of their more acquisitive and warlike neighbours, the Masai, who had moved southwards, by a process of barter and subsequently by breeding, this tribe, formerly the owners of practically no cattle, in the space of under twenty years, is to-day the “possessor of quite 120,000 head of low-value cattle in addition to over 150,000 head of small stock. With this as an illustration consider the insatiable capacity of many other native tribes, as an illustration, the Wakamba, who by increasing their herds have also peacefully occupied land outside their reserve. The difficulty would vanish were the cattle marketable and of a value beyond a local one. It is obvious, therefore. that when we endeavour to limit disease by inoculation we must at the same time increase the carrying capacity of the reserves, limit the numbers of cattle to a figure safe for an under average year, see to it that female stock is not crowded by the less useful oxen, queens and surplus bulls, and equally important we must educate the native to appreciate commercial quality in cattle. How, as a country, and as controllers, trustees, or whatever you will, are we to meet the needs? It should be realised that what we term ‘‘ needs '’ may be no such thing in the native estimation. Natives as a rule have few needs and they are quite able to meet most of their needs without much assistance. They are, however, mcereasingly desiring education and medical attention. What the native has are wonderfully valuable assets if used and developed. From an Imperial point of view it savours of foolishness to allow these assets to be misused, to allow them to depreciate, and to ignore their value in the scheme of things. But it would also be equally foolish to attempt development in advance of the capacity of the people. Although nominally wards, native tribes are given a considerable measure of what has been termed self-Government, and in their tenacity over such matters as land, wages, labour and leisure, rival if not surpass the strivings of groups of people in European countries. Much sympathy and a considerable amount of anxiety is shown for native tribes and native workers by people elsewhere who are relatively 7h $3

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