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Item Agricultural Extension Methods amongst African Peasant Farmers(1946) Masefield, G.B.It is notorious in many countries that it is easier to devise improved agricultural methods than to get them put into practice by the mass of the farming community. Departments of Agriculture are normally divided between these two functions, i.e. into a research side and an extension side, of which the latter usually absorbs much the larger staff. Research work is so directed as to be always a few jumps ahead of the methods in current use, but its potential must always be limited by the fact that too many improvements cannot be "put across" at once within the limits of expenditure and staff available for the extension side. If, therefore, extension techniques can be improved, a given amount of staff could accomplish more work and research could also go ahead faster, to the general betterment of agriculture.Item Grass Burning : Some Uganda Experience(January, 1948) Masefield, G.B.; Agricultural officer, UgandaAlthough a great deal of practical knowledge exists throughout East Africa on the subject of grass burning, there are, so far as I am aware, no written summaries of it available. Particularly in teaching students on this subject, I have found the difficulty that there is no literature to which to refer them. It is therefore proposed in this article to try to present a summary of experience on the problem as it is known in Uganda. In other parts of the tropics, and even in other East African territories, where conditions are different, divergent views are no doubt held on many of the points at issue. In the first part of the article, extensive burning of grasslands or grazing land only will be dealt with. Localized burning to clear vegetation off small areas prior to cultivation will be considered later.Item The Life of Perennial Crops(1948) Masefield, G.B.; A.I.C.T.A., UgandaThe length of life to be expected of many tropical crop plants, or even their economic or payable life, are subjects on which agricultural science is still rt:markably ignorant. This may be due partly to the short time in which agricultural scientists have been working in the tropics, and to lack of continuity on research stations' and plantations, where the life of a crop plant may often be longer than oneEuropean's working life. The object of this paper is to draw attention to our ignorance rather than our knowledge, of the subject, and to emphasize its importance for formulating agricultural policies in East Africa.Item The Production of Native Beer in Uganda(1938) Masefield, G.B.; Department of Agriculture, Uganda Protectorate.The production of beer plays such a part in the economy of native agriculture in Uganda that no apology is for bringing into the light a subject about which little or no published information appears to exist. In some parts of Uganda, as will be shown below, the acreage under the beer crop actually exceeds that under any other single crop.Item Weeds of High-Altitude Districts in Uganda(September 1939) Masefield, G.B.; A.I.C.T.A., UgandaThe notes that follow are based on observations made in the Kigezp and Bugishu districts, which are similar in many respects though they are at opposite ends of Uganda. In both districts there are areas of short-grass plains at lower altitudes which are not under consideration here; in both there are also extensive cultivated areas. at altitudes of between 5,500 and 7,000 feet. These two high-altitude regions are among the most densely populated parts of Uganda, and both carry also very heavy live stock populations. Little forest is left in the cultivated parts, and the vegetation consists of heavily grazed scrub and grassland. The grasslands of Kigezi have been described as the finest pasturage in Uganda.
