Their livelihood comes from non-agricultural work. However, the lack of money is still severe. The best way to remedy this ailment is to replace manual labor with mechanical means in irrigation. Land prices have risen, especially in the Berber center.

The land tax was adjusted, and this adjustment benefited the province and saved the time of officials. The financial situation, in general, is good.

The most important thing to mention in terms of trade is the increase in livestock exported abroad, which reached 20,000 head. The advantage of this trade is not limited to the increase in money circulating among the public, but also extends to marketing the Marrian to work and bringing their livestock to cities and markets where they see and understand the government's work.

The director of the Um Bardi mine says that they milled 8,500 tons of ore from January to July and extracted 4,150 ounces of gold from it, worth about £14,800. They have secured all the money they needed.

At the beginning of the year, Captain Ton Sand was appointed director of the province, succeeding the Koutel, but he was appointed director of Agriculture and Lands in Khartoum.

- 31 - Blue Nile Province A great convenience in the province was the opening of the Wad Madani railway, which increased revenues by £10,500 compared to 1909, and trade rose in proportion to this increase. The condition of the inhabitants is good.

Their numbers have increased by about 14,000 people, most of them in the Wad Madani and Rufaa centers. Prosperity still prevails among the Bedouin tribes.

The province's schools are successful, as the feeling has shifted the value of learning to the Sudanese love of saving the wages of a laborer by keeping his son with him. A new school was opened in Aboud, and there are plans to open another in Azazi. A request was made to establish a girls' school in Wad Madani on the model of the girls' school in Rufaa. The health of the province's inhabitants has been generally good. The great work being done at the Wad Madani hospital must be noted.

The year has been one of progress and success.