The improvement of native agriculture in relation to population and public health / by Sir A. Daniel Hall.

  • Alfred Daniel Hall
Date:
1936
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    INDEX ABATTOIRS, 56. Adansonia (Baobab), 79. Administrative staff, responsibility for agricultural improvement, 91. Agricultural instructors, need for ad¬ ditional, 89, 90. Akamba (tribe), 25. Akikuyu (and Kikuyu), density of population, 18, 17; dietary, 67, 73 ; origin, 86; overpopulation im¬ minent, 28; practice of shifting cultivation, 25, 46. Arachis (earth nut), 31, 77. Azotobacter, 2, 20. BACTERIA, nodule, 7. Banana, 44. Bantu, diet, 66; diseases, 74; stock¬ owning customs, 47, 49. Baobab (Adansonia), 79. Basutoland, increase of population, 27; land tenure, 26; soil erosion, 54- Beans, 30. Beckley, V. A., on composting, 33, 35 ; green manuring, 32. Beehives, replacing cattle in lobolo, 81. Black soils, 3, 9. CALCIUM, in Arachis, 77; de¬ ficiency in Hausa diet, 76; leaves as source of, 68, 73; shortage in Africa, 80. Cash crops, 43. Cassava, in Masai dietary, 75 ; origin, 31; standard African crop, 30, 79. Cereals, cheapest source of energy, 17, 95; staple food, 76. ‘Chena’, 23, 29. China, 5, 18. Clover, effect of fertilizers on, 33 ; in rotation, 13 ; wild white, 16. Coco-nut, used by Coast tribes, 80. Composting, in Africa, 36; in China, 19, 33; importance in native agri¬ culture, 90; in India, 34. Cotton crop, 44. Crookes, W., 4. Crops for sale, 43. Cruciferous plants, need for in Africa, 80. Culling of stock, 56. DEFORESTATION, 53. Dietary, essentials of healthy, 96; improvement of, 99; improvement of native, 91; of Kikuyu, 68; of native tribes, 65. Donga erosion, 54. EARTH nut, 31, 77. Education, essential for improve¬ ment of agriculture, 87, 93. Eleusine, 77. Enclosures, 13, 45. Epizootics, African, 27, 50, 70. European agriculture, 4, 7. FAULKNER, O. T., and Mackie, J- R-, 24. Fertility of soil, accumulation of, 23 ; causes of, 3, 11; elements of, 6; level of, 16; maintenance, 18, 38, 90. Food accessories, 65; leaves as, among Kikuyu women, 68, 73, 79; among Zulus, 66. GILBERT, J. H., 3, 7- Gilks, J. L., 67, 73, 74. ‘Githaka’, 26, 46. Goats, destructive effect of, 53-5; need for reduction in numbers, 81. Green manuring, 11, 31. Grogan, Major E. S., composting on coffee estates, 35; on erosion, 55; on shifting cultivation, 29. Ground nut {Arachis), 31, 77. HAUSAS, 75, 76. I-Iobley, C. W., 55. Hoe, in African agriculture, 82. Hoernle, Mrs., 56. Howard, Sir Albert, 34, 38. Human excreta, use in fertilizer, 18, 37. 91- Humus, from composting, 37; high rate of loss in tropics, 31; restora¬ tion of, 90. Hutchinson, H. B., 9. IM PER AT A, 24. Indirect rule, 86. Indore method of composting, 34, 38- Instructors, agricultural, 89, 90.