Circulars, reports, and memoranda, 1957-1959

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Circulars, reports and memoranda chiefly by the Department of Agriculture, Kenya, and two unfoliated printed items. Comprises:

(fol 1) - note on Laibon (ritual priest) opposition to agricultural progress, n.d.
(fols 2-5) - draft of note on land consolidation in Fort Hall, n.d.
(fols 4-10) - photostats of pages from The East African Agricultural Journal with an article by L.H. Brown, Department of Agriculture: 'Development and farm planning in the African areas of Kenya', Oct 1957.
(fols 11-13) - Directive from the Department of Agriculture on coffee planting in the Central Province, 10 Mar 1958.
[fol 14 has no description]
(fols 15-29) - Memorandum on the expansion of tea planting in the Central Province, 7 Aug 1958.
(fols 30-50) - Memorandum on Land Consolidation procedure in the Embu District, 18 Aug 1958.
(fols 51-61) - Memorandum from the Provincial Agricultural Office, Nyeri, on the minimum economic holding and the subsistence holding in the Central Province, 17 Sep 1958.
(fols 62-71) - Memorandum by the District Commissioner, Meru, on the Meru Northern Grazing Area, 30 Sep 1958.
(fols 72-80) - Memorandum by R.J.M. Swynnerton, Director of Agriculture, on 'Planning African Farming in Kenya', n.d.
(fols 81-88) - Report for the year ending 31 Dec 1958 by the District Agricultural Officer, Elgeyo-Marakwet (W.M. Spencer), 15 Dec 1958, with a covering note from him to Elspeth Huxley dated 17 Feb 1959.
(fols 89-97) - Circular entitled 'A Guide to Consolidation in the Kiambu District', n.d.
(fols 98-100) - Report on Land Consolidation in Embu District, Feb 1959.
(item 1) - illustrated pamphlet, 17pp., on 'Tea Planting' by G. Gamble, M.B.E., Assistant Director of Agriculture, Central Province, Kenya, 1958.
(item 2) - illustrated pamphlet, 23pp., on 'Land Consolidation and Farm Planning in the Central Province', by L.H. Kolbe and S.J. Fouche, Department of Agriculture, Kenya, 1959.