The new industrial revolution and wages

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

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Identifikator:: 1804651486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-193069

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lauck, William Jett http://d-nb.info/gnd/173237126

Title:: The new industrial revolution and wages

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Funk & Wagnalls

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: ix, 308 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. Acceptance of the theory of an adequate basic wage

Collection:: Economics Books

PART II. TS The present Plant Breeder was appointed in 1921. A breeding station was erected near Nairobi where wheats are bred for resistance to Puccinia graminis. Great progress has been made with this work and many useful types, of from four months to six months maturity time, and resistant to Puccinia graminis, are now pure and ready for multiplication. ~~ Unfortunately most of them are susceptible to Puccinia triticina, but by a further cross it is hoped to rectify this in time. Many of the types now being grown near Nairobi will have to be trans‘erred to a breeding station in the Rongai Valley as they take about six months to mature, and would be useful for that and other similar districts. There is fortunately one, though only one, variety of wheat in the country immune to Puccinia graminis. This variety is called Red Egyptian, and is immensely useful as a parent for crosses. Another breeding station was erected at Njoro at an altitude of 7,000 feet. Here wheats are bred for resistance both to Puccinia graminis and Puccinia glumarum. Fortunately at any rate one variety, Equator, is resistant to Puccinia glumarum and can be used as the other parent for a cross with Red Egyptian. Unfortunately both are long maturing wheats and so early maturity will have to be achieved by further crosses of early maturing wheats with some of the progeny of the Equator and Red Egyptian cross. The breeding work at Njoro is progressing fairly favourably and useful types resistant to both rusts are now segregating out. =~ Wheats which appear resistant to Puccinia glumarum and Puccinia graminis are further tested for resistance to Puccinia glumarum at higher atitudes. In addition to the two breeding stations there are six varietal testing stations. As the work progresses, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage and it may become necessary, unless further staff is provided, to confine the activities of the Plant Breeding Branch, insofar as wheat breeding is concerned, to producing wheats suitable for lower altitudes only, leaving the higher altitudes to look after themselves. Considering the distances separating them, four breeding stations is rather a tall order for the present meagre staff to cope with. It will be realised by now that wheat simply cannot be grown in the Colony until the rust problem is solved. In order that farmers should not have to wait ten years after the arrival of the present Plant Breeder before they had rust-resistant wheats to grow, some 500 selections were made from the mixtures of wheats left behind by the previous Plant Breeder. An exhaustive trial of them has been made all over the country for five years. The result of these trials shows that Equator is the only wheat which can be grown at altitudes above 7,500 feet, it being resistant to Puccinia glumarum but susceptible to Puccinia graminis. And Kenya Governor—issued for the first time last year—is the only wheat which can be grown at altitudes below 7,000 feet, being highly resistant to puccinia graminis, but susceptible to Puccinia glumarum. There is no wheat as yet, in sufficient quantity for issue for altitudes of 7,000 feet except Durum wheats such as Golden Ball and Groot Korn. Farmers who grow any variety of wheat other than the two mentioned are running a grave risk of losing their crop through rust. Equator should not be grown below 7,500 feet nor Kenya Governor above 7,000 feet. Both these wheats are capable of yielding 10 bags 10:

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