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Item Further note on onion experiments on Kilimanjaro(1948) Swynnerton, R.J.M.The results of the 1947 series of onion experiments carried out on Kilimanjaro, a continuation of those recorded in the East Africanv Agricultural Journal for January, 1947, are submitted here as it will probably be necessary to discontinue them for the present on account of staff changes. The writer warmly acknowledges the assistance rendered in his absence on leave by Messrs. H. L. Brett and J. S Gunn, Agricultural Officers, the former in harvesting the experiments, the latter for under taking the statistical analyses.Item Siege Farming In Malta(1946) Swynnerton, R.J.M.; A.I.C.T.A.,Tanganyika TerritoryMalta and Gozo contain some 45,000 acres of arable land within the 114 square miles of their rocky islands, of which around 2,000 to 3,000 acres are under irrigation. While this area, obviously, cannot support the population of over a quarter of a million, it sustains the 13,000 peasant farmers who, along with their families, total some 70,000 people, keeping them fully fed. Ample supplies of fresh vegetables, potatoes, onions, and milk are sold to the civil and Service inhabitants of the towns, along with Mediterranean clover, vetches, and carobs to the urban goat keepers and carters for their horses. Despite these efforts, the bulk of Malta's food requirements must still be imported, including thousands of tons of feed and 2,000 tons of seed potatoes annually. The only significant agricultural exports during peacetime were 10,000 to 15,000 tons of potatoes to Britain and the Continent, 2,500 tons of onions, and 250 tons of cumin seed, with a total annual value of about £130,000 annually.Item The Use of Transport and Poison Bait in a Locust Campaign(1946) Swynnerton, R.J.M.; A.I.C.T.A., Tanganyika TerritoryIt is not uncommon for the officers who may be called upon at short notice to conduct a campaign against locust hoppers to have to set up their organization without previous experience, with very scrappy literature on the subject to which to refer, and to have no technical adviser with field experience within reach. Such, at least, was the experience of the officers detailed to conduct a campaign in the Mkomazi Gap between the Western Usambara and the South Pare Mountains of Tanganyika in May, 1944, where the hoppers were already hatched before it was possible to organize the assembly of equipment. The following notes, compiled as a result of this campaign, may be of wider interest to anyone who has to organize from scratch a campaign against locust hoppers although campaigns in East Africa have been many in the last few years and each one has produced its own problems whether of labour, transport or the supply of water, bait or zinc banding. Although the Mkomazi campaign was undertaken at the height of the rainy season, which in many areas would have precluded the use of poison bait, the Mkomazi Gap is so dry that, while a deluge might be pouring in the adjacent mountains or on the coast, a gentle drizzle or mist at Mkomazi would keep the bait fresh throughout the day. In fact days were experienced which were so hot and dry that baiting was only possible in the early mornings and late evenings.
