76 (No. 96 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Government exercises a measure of supervision over the agricultural industries of both Protectorates. In Uganda it controls the issue of cottonseed to the native growers, so as to ensure crops of uniformhigh quality, and through native instructors trains thenative in correct methods of cultivation. Regulations are issued for the dipping of live-stock and for other measures for combating stock diseases . The Government farms breed and sell useful varieties of cattle and sheep, con duct experiments to find improved varieties of known plants, and introduce or advertise others which give promise of profitable culture .

The abundant big game of East Africa is an asset of undoubted value,as it attracts from all parts of the world a large number of sportsmen , some of whom eventually decide to settle in the country. The species of game to be found in the Protectorates include the lion, cheetah, elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, eland , kudu , water-buck, harte beest , and many other antelopes and gazelles. Two immense tracts of country , one lying between the rail way and the southern boundary of British East Africa , the other north of the upper reaches of the (northern) Gwaso Nyiro river, constitute the two game reserves. Sportsmen's yearly licences, residents ' yearly, residents' fortnightly , and travellers' monthly licences cost £ 50, £10 , £2 , and £1 respectively, and authorize the shoot ing or capture of various numbers of specified sorts of game. Elephants and giraffes are protected by special licences. Bird licences cost 5 rupees per annum . Methods of Cultivation ; Irrigation . - Native methods of cultivation are simple . The hoe is the universal im plement of agriculture. The Government Departments of Agriculture take pains to educate the natives in correct ways of growing and marketing cotton , coffee, and cocoa . European settlers introduce modern methods of ploughing and cultivating, and of harvest ing their crops of grain , sisal , potatoes, coffee, and other products.

The method of irrigation emploved in the cultivation of rice in India , China , and Japan is unknown in East