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Item An Example of Co-operation in Research(1938) Editor East African Agricultural and Forestry JournalPlans are now being considered for the reorganization of agricultural research in East Africa, and it is intended that there should be better co-ordination of the work in the territories concerned, as well as a closer link with research stations in the United Kingdom. The scientific isolation of research workers in the tropics has been a serious handicap in the past, and although personal contacts with workers in other countries were easy to make and to maintain, lack of official support prevented full use being made of the willingness of individuals to collaborate. It is therefore of particular interest at the present time to recall an example of cooperation between a colonial government and a research institute in the United Kingdom.Item Pasture Research(1940) Fiennes,R. N. T.W.The method of measuring ground cover and percentage composition of the permanent pastures at the Veterinary Laboratory, Entebbe, Uganda, is thought to possess advantages of quickness and simplicity of use.Item Some Aspects of Teso Agriculture(1941) Watson, J. M.Teso district, lying in the Eastern Province of Uganda, between the districts of Lango to the north and Bugerere to the south, was formally constituted by Proclamation of July 11th, 1912, under the Uganda Order in Council of 1902. The district occupies an area of 4,052 square miles and according to the 1931 census the total population was 270,211.Item Empire Production of Drugs-Stramonium(1941) Greenway, P.J.The Medical Research Council of Great Britain issued a list of drugs for the guidance of those concerned with the compilation of formularies and those responsible for drug manufacture and distribution. The Council's main object was to examine the lists of the drugs which are imported into Great Britain and to recommend substitutes that can be obtained at home or within the British Empire. The Council also found that important drugs are used for purposes for which they are not essential.Item Some Experiments on Staking Derris(1941) Worsley, R. R. Le G.Derris eliptica is a creeper which sends Out runners many feet in length: some plants in Amani have grown up supports to a height of over 30 feet, As usually cultivated in Malaya and other countries they have been left to creep along the around. Preliminary trials in Amani indicated that staked plants gave a higher yield of root than unstacked ones, a result one might expect on theoretical grounds because Slaked plants have a greater area of leaf exposed \0 (he light and therefore would presumably show greater growth because of increased photosynthesis.Item The Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London(1944) Chorley, T. W; The Royal Entomological Society of LondonGlossina palpalis Juscipes has been found breeding, in the Busoga District of Uganda, in places far removed from any permanent water. In one instance the nearest water of any kind was four miles away; in others breeding was taking place at distances up to twelve miles from any permanent water except small water-holes. The area in which the breeding-places were found, and the sites in which breeding occurred are described, and the food supply of the tsetse is discussed. The exceptional distance from water at which breeding of palpalis occurs in Busoga is thought to be due to the very humid conditions in the forest. Swynnerton's suggestion that food supply is the factor which normally limits palpalis to the near neighbourhood of permanent water is probably incorrect. In Uganda suitable conditions of shade and humidity seldom occur far from permanent water, and where these conditions are not found palpalis is absent, no matter how ample the food supply.Item Agricultural Extension Methods amongst African Peasant Farmers(1946) Masfield, 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 Review- Erosion in the Punjab(1947) Maher, C.It was a melancholy fact that British rule and British peace often had the result of producing conditions which were only too likely to lead to future wars, as growing populations were forced by deterioration of natural resources to find living space.Item On Writing for this Journal(1947) Moreau, R. E.It is perhaps appropriate that after nearly ten years' close association with the editorship of this Journal I should, on my departure, record some of the ideas that have guided me and some of the things that it has taught me. I do not write from an altogether one sided point of view, because I have had a good deal of my own writing published in scientific journals. There is nothing new in any of my cautions or recommendations, but it is certain that they need repeating. On some points I am pernickety: you are at liberty to ascribe the strength of my prejudices to senile obstinacy that seems like mellow wisdom to its possessor.Item The Forestry Adviser's Visit to Tanganyika(1947) Editor, East African Agricultural and Forestry JournalThe colonial development plans which were put into effect was stimulated interest in the' work of the territorial departments, and the policy was adopted that advisers to the Secretary of State should have closer contact with the 'workers in the Colonial Empire. This principle was welcomed by technical officers in the Colonial Service, who felt in the past that their work was being collated and criticized in London by men who had great difficulty in appreciating the conditions under which the work was being carried out. Thus the visit to East Africa of Mr. W. A. Robertson, Forestry Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, gave officers of the Forestry Departments an opportunity to put their problems to a man of wide experience and to explain and demonstrate the difficulties which they meet in the course of their work.Item Veterinary Research in East and Central Africa: Proceedings of the Standing Veterinary Research Committee Conference: Technical Session(1948) Reid, N. R.The conference of the Standing Veterinary Research Committee of the East African territories held at Kabete Veterinary Research Laboratory from ~9th April to 1st May was the last-conference of this committee because of ' the proposed establishment towards the end of 1948 of an East African Advisory Council for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Forestry, which will take over the functions of the various Standing Research Committees.Item The Susceptibility of Wood to Termite Attack(1951) Kemp P. B.It has already been shown by various workers that termites select certain kinds of wood for attack; Wigg (1946) has demonstrated the durability of some East African timbers at Morogoro, and Sangster (1942) has carried out similar work in Uganda. The following observations were made using logs cut from trees and shrubs commonly found in the thicket around Shinyanga, in the Lake Province of Tanganyika.Item The Value of Hides and Skins(1951) French M. H.The value of hides and skins sold overseas places these articles fourth on the list of raw materials exported from East Africa and only cotton, sisal and coffee earn greater combined incomes for the three mainland 'territories. The reason why this fact is not more widely appreciated is because hides and skins are byproducts Of animal industry with no seasonal or geographic concentration of production. In fact, the large majority are produced individually, at irregular intervals, by the many native cattle owners scattered over the tsetse free areas. Since they originate in such a dispersed manner, it is not surprising that the primary producer usually fails to relate the relatively small return for his individual hide or skin to the economic importance to East Africa of these same articles in bulk.Item The Reclamation of Sisal Flume Tow(1951) Thieme J. G.As far back as 1923 the author was occupied in scientific investigation on the purification of waste water from a Java sisal factory through the means of digesting tanks and biological. Filters, trying at the same time to produce combustible gas from this water. The success of these experiments encouraged him to look also for a biological solution of the flume waste problem. After many fruitless efforts he found a few suitable retting processes, aerobic retting as well as water retting. The latter method gave the best product and was chosen for commercial practice and it became the solution for the flume waste problem of many a sisal estate in Java and Sumatra.Item The First East African Herbicide Conference. A General Introduction and Review of the Proceedings(1957) Russell, E.W.; East African Agriculture and Forestry Research OrganizationPapers presented at the conference.Item The International Union of Forest Research Organizations(1957) Griffith, A.L.; East African Agricultural and Forestry Organization; East African Agricultural and Forestry OrganizationThe 12th Congress of the J.U.F.R.O. was held in Oxford in July, 1956, and was followed by a choice of eight study tours in the forests of the British Isles. It was attended by 242 delegates from 42 countries. It was a great pleasure to see the U.S.A. and Canada represented in force, and also that some of the iron -curtain countries felt able to send delegates, thus showing that the foresters of the world can get together and discuss common problems and that a world-wide science such as forestry can transcend politics.Item The First East African Herbicide Conference II-Summary of Papers and Discussion(1957) Duthie, D.W.; East African Agriculture and Forestry Research OrganizationPapers presented at the conference.Item Opportunities for Research at Kariba(1959) Edney, E.B.; East Africa Trypanosomiasis Research OrganizationTHE opportunities for research at Lake Kariba have already been referred to in this Journal. Tobias has described his Anthropological work with the Tonga, a group of African people some of whom lived along the shores of the Zambesi river, and Freed• man2 has outlined some of the zoological possibilities. It is the purpose of the present paper to say something of the work that has been or is being done in the area, and to point to a few of the many fertile fields open for further work in the future.Item A Report on a Project for Drift Free Aerial Spraying of Water Weeds(ministry of Agriculture, 1960) Little, E.C.S.; Robson, T.O.; A.R.C., Weed Res. Org., Kidlington, Oxford, EnglandThe Department of Technical Cooperation through the Tropical Pesticides Research Unit,Porter,(T.P.R.U.) supperted a project to develop an apparatus for spraying water weeds in ditches accurately from the without producing spray drift,The project wass suggested by the A.R.C.Weed Research Organisation (W.R.O)as potentially usedul both to British and many countries overseas. This raper reports the preliminary results of trials in cooperation with the Kent River Road.Item Proceedings of the First Inter-African Plant Nematology Conference Held at East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organisation, Kikuyu, Kenya. From October 24th to 28th, 1960(East African Agricultural and Forestry Research Organization, 1960) East African Agriculture and forestry Research Organisation; Russell, E.W.; WHITEHEAD, A.G.; LEDGER, M.A.; East African Agriculture and forestry Research OrganisationThe First Inter-African Plant Nematology Conference was attended by delegates from Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Congo (formerly Belgian), Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Union of South Africa, Angola, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and the United States of America. The Conference was composed of plant nematologists, plant pathologists and representatives of Shell Chemicals Ltd., and the Shell Development Co., California Fisons Pest Control Ltd., Dow Agrochemicals Ltd. and African Explosives and Chemical Industries Ltd. Two agriculturists were also present Dr. Russell opened the Conference by welcoming all delegates to the Muguga headquarters of E.Α.A.F.R.O. He explained that Ε.A.A.F.R.O. was the central agricultural research facility for Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar so that problems of common importance to the East African territories were investigated, rather than local problems and E.A.A.F.R.O. was only involved in advisory work when asked by the territories. Clearly plant parasitic nematodes had to be studied on an inter-territorial basis and the principal object of this conference was to enable nematologists, plant pathologists and representatives of the chemical industries manufacturing nematicides to discuss methods of control relevant to Africa. Crop rotation appeared to be a promising line of approach to field control but this involved a full understanding of the host ranges of the species involved and the thorny problems of taxonomy. While chemical methods of control were already available (on a small scale and for certain valuable crops in the field) a knowledge of the practical aspects of soil fumigation was by no means general. The objects of this Conference were therefore to discuss:- 1. The problems of taxonomy of plant parasitic nematodes. 2. Nematode problems of specific crops and the damage resulting from attacks. 3. Methods of control applicable to tropical and subtropical Africa.
