ENCLOSURE TO PART III.
Growth, flowering, and bolling records were kept, while plant
diagrams were made of a number of plants of each variety together
with diagrams of other varieties which were grown in observation
rows.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Rainfall and temperature records (max. and min.) were kept from
the commencement of the season, but additional records will be kept
in future now that the Station is equipped with the requisite
instruments such as a thermograph, barograph, wet and dry bulb
thermometers, and sunshine recorder.
ScieNTiFiIc EQUIPMENT.
A sum of £300 was voted for this purpose, but it was not possible
to utilise 1t all before the end of the financial year. Sanction to carry
over the grant to the following year was willingly accorded by the
Treasury and it is satisfactory to record that the Station is now well
equipped in this respect.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND STOCK.
The implements on the Station consist of :
1 Three-furrow disc plough.
! Set zig-zag harrows.
+ Dise harrow.
I Cotton and mealie planter.
1 Ox wagon.
Picks, spades, mattocks, ete.
The live stock on the farm consists of two spans of trek oxen,
which do all the ploughing, harrowing, carting, and general work on
the station.
LABOUR.
About thirty natives are employed continuously on ploughing,
cultivation, brick-making, building and general work. The stumping
and clearing of the land is carried out by convict labour, as available.
Bulbine.
These are all made of Kimberley brick, with corrugated iron roofs,
concrete foundations and ant-proof sheets of zinc between 4th and 5th
courses. The Plant Breeders’ house was the first building to be
erected, and is, therefore, the worst constructed, as it had to be
rushed up in a hurry prior to the rainy season. The remaining
buildings were built during the following dry season. They are: —
I. Foreman’s house.
2. Botanical Laboratory, with dark room.
3. Office.
4 Cotton store.
5. Insect proof iron cage, 8 ft. x 12 ft. x 20 ft.
The latter was built at an approximate cost of £40, with a view
to testing the possibility of raising specially selected cotton plants in
it, and to note their behaviour when grown under cage conditions. A
limited number of plants from each variety of Cotton were reared in
this cage, and plant diagrams made of each for comparison with
diagrams made of plants from the same varieties grown under field
conditions. When these diagrams have been completed, it is

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