PART 11. 
‘“ The stocking of land beyond its carrying capacity with 
resultant poverty and deaths of stock may be prevented and the 
number, etc., of livestock which may be kept on a given area can 
be defined. Generally also provision is made for determining the 
manner in which livestock improvement should be carried out.” 
It is readily seen that to apply any orders in a native area pre- 
supposes the existence of an organisation to see that orders are carried 
out and also an organisation which is able to advise the kind of and 
in what direction orders should be applied. 
It therefore means that the administrative staffs in native areas 
should include agricultural officers of experience capable of advising. 
The Department is endeavouring to establish agricultural schools in all 
large native reserves and the technical staffs of these schools supervise 
native instruction and demonstration plots in various locations in 
addition, to their work on the seed farms and schools. The staff 
provided should be capable of advising the Senior or District 
Commissioner as to what should be done simply to effect some 
improvement generally applicable and generally needed. 
The Agricultural Officer will require a native intelligence 
organisation provided by native instructors in each location in charge 
of the demonstration plots mentioned heretofore. Therefore the 
educational and advisory work will go hand in hand and the small 
organisation should be capable of functioning in the beginning. 
As experience is gained, and we have some experience of the 
evasion by natives of orders issued in connection with the cotton crop, 
we shall need to devise means to ensure that orders are promptly and 
thoroughly carried out. The character and calibre of the officer 
delivering the order should be good enough to ensure the obedience of 
the people. 
Firstly, a whole-hearted interest must be taken in the prosperity 
of their native charges by administrative officers, not merely to protect 
their possessions inviolate and to uphold native rights, but also to see 
that all the daily wastefulness of life in native reserves is reduced by 
rendering the labour of people in reserves more valuable to the 
country. Therefore the fullest support of the administrative officer 
in matters of management must be forthcoming, and the joint work of 
the agricultural officer and the administrative officer reflect itself in 
the increased prosperity of the district. In Kenya the Agricultural 
Officer, apart from his educational work, is advisory to the administra- 
tive officer. © The administrative staff is already fuily occupied in 
various ways and although strongly desiring it naturally feels that 
agricultural work is an additional burden. In other countries a 
different system is in operation. 
Briefly, the organisation we have to-day is as follows: 
(1) Under central direction provincial training and seed farms 
are being established. The European officers in charge act also as 
advisers to the Administration, and supervisors of the native 
instructors in locations. 
(2) Attached to the Institution are trained native instructors in 
charge of demonstration plots shewing improved cultivation, a model 
rotation, the value of good seed, new implements. These instructors 
are visited regularly, the condition and extent of crops, incidence of 
droucht and disease is noted for administrative information. 
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