PART 1I. 
must be broken off and a more useful attitude engendered. The 
curriculum we have adopted in training at our large farm schools 
includes both general and agricultural subjects treated in an 
elementary way. These are Agricultural Botany, Agricultural 
Zoology, Plant husbandry, Animal husbandry, Dairying, Poultry, 
Horticulture, Elementary Veterinary Science, Elementary Forestry, 
English, Swahili, Arithmetic, Geography, and Hygiene. All teaching 
is done in Swahili. Each pupil has his own school garden and all 
implements used on the farm are of a type suitable for native use. 
Tae Nreps or tHE Corony: The country undoubtedly lends itself 
to Agriculture, and, to-day, the production of edible crops is carried on 
on a large scale. The spectre of famine ought to have been banished 
by now and the population should increase with the reduction in the 
loss of lives from preventable causes. The weakness of the position 
in some native areas is that should there be any shortage of foodstuffs, 
it is the women and children who suffer, as the men may go out for 
work and be fed at any time. It is our endeavour to overcome this 
difficulty by increasing food production in all agricultural reserves. 
The variety of the dietary should be improved and with increase in 
wealth the consumption of meat will become greater. 
The Colony requires that its fertile areas should all produce a 
surplus for sale in order that development be paid for and continued. 
We need to see that effort is not wasted. The amount of energy 
wasted in native areas is very great. In one imstance the laborious 
and poor construction of diversion weirs upon which one population 
mainly depends for its existence, is unsound and wasteful. One well 
directed and well designed effort would free people for more valuable 
work in their area or outside it. The growing of mixed and poor value 
crops is a waste which may be eliminated slowly by concerted action 
in specific areas. The idle standing of oxen, whilst by human power 
land is dug, for the production of the nourishment of a tribe, is a 
serious waste. There would be a greater leisure in reserves if many 
of the laborious operations such as ploughing, and grinding, were 
carried out by mechanical aid. There is a colossal waste of time in 
the marketing of produce on the heads of porters, women mainly, 
transport within reserves is rapidly being augmented, and more 
collecting centres served by railways or good roads are needed. 
The commercial uselessness of the cattle of natives indicates in 
what manner the time of people could be saved, and finally the 
ingrained laziness of many natives might be found to be due to the 
onset of debilitating disease as much as to a natural detestation of 
work. 
The necessity for them being so evident, how are we to effect the 
desired changes? These will be achieved mainly through the 
following : — 
A. With Crops : 
(1) The use of better and labour saving implements, 
(?* The control of pests and diseases where feasible. 
(® The issue and planting of better seed, distributed from seed 
farms, as mass issues, after the value of the better sced has 
been demonstrated in location plots. 
By the co-operation of buyers where discrimination acainst 
the poorer and preference for the better qualities of produce 
1s shewn. 
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