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at the Henry Scott Agricultural Laboratories, in the grounds of which 
some experimental work is also undertaken. Co-operative experi- 
ments with farmers are also carried out on wheat, maize, and coffee 
in different districts. 
The difficulty of providing the many services which should be 
rendered by a Department of Agriculture, efficiently staffed to carry 
out its functions, is being acutely felt at this stage of development of 
the Colony. Only those closely associated with the day to day 
administration and activities of the Department of Agriculture, 
serving a country so young in its stage of development and about 
which so little is known, can fully realise the paucity of information 
and knowledge possessed of its resources, and the best methods to 
be adopted. 
The need and the importance of well-organised Departments of 
Agriculture in the Crown Colonies was forcibly expressed in the report 
of a Committee appointed to advise the Secretary of State, which said 
“ In the course of our enquiries we have been profoundly impressed 
by the magnitude and importance of the tasks which the Colonial 
Agricultural Departments have to perform.”’ Again, ‘‘ But, though 
our proposals deal only with existing conditions, we should fail in our 
duty, if, in framing them, we did not bear in mind the enormous 
development which is certain to oceur both in the responsibilities of 
the Colonial Agricultural Departments and in the scope of the benefits, 
which they will, if properly equipped, be able to confer on their 
particular Dependencies, and on the Empire at large.” 
It is remarkable that while in older countries, e.g., in Britain, 
the Continent of Europe, the United States of America, and elsewhere, 
countries with great agricultural traditions extending over a long 
period of time, there is an increasing recognition of the value and need 
of agricultural research-and experiment and services of that kind are 
continually being increased, yet in young countries, where 
comparatively little is known of agricultural practice and the 
application of agricultural science to it, the support both of 
Governments and Colonists is not infrequently difficult to secure for 
services of that kind. The demand is for immediate and tangible 
results and that cannot always be assured, with the result that 
technical services, essential and valuable to the industry, are not 
provided. 
It may be said that as compared with other countries the services 
to be rendered here are applicable to a comparatively small number of 
people engaged in agricultural pursuits, but it should be noted that 
agriculture in Kenya is not confined to one or two major products. 
It is very diverse in character; the problems to be dealt with are 
numerous. Native as well as European interests require attention, 
and ever there is the proper desire on the part of a highly intelligent 
farming community to be in the vanguard of progress and method. 
The position is that the activities of the Department of Agriculture in 
Kenya are not governed by the extent of the service, but by the large 
namber of services which have to be rendered and subjects which have 
to be dealt with. 
The expenditure of the Department of Agriculture in 1925 was 
£101,210 and the revenue received £33,599, chiefly derived from 
inoculation and orading fees. and sales of sera and vaccines. 
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