Abstract
TO the British Empire, the problem of milk production in the tropics is of paramount importance. It is a problem which at the present moment faces both the administrators and their agricultural advisors in each one of the British tropical dependencies and in India. The “History of the Hope Farm and Part 1 of the Jamaica Herd Book of Pure Bred Cattle” by H. H. Cousins, is an outstanding contribution to this subject (Pp. vi + 308 + 59 + 54 plates. Kingston, Jamaica: Government Printing Office, 1933). This Jamaican estate, becoming derelict, passed in 1909 into the hands of the Government and represents a somewhat unusual incident in Government operations by which an officer was called upon to justify, as a commercial concern, the acquisition of land as public property, practically without capital and dependent upon the earnings of the enterprise for its development. The assets of the Farm now show a gain of nearly £16,000, or an annual increase averaging £751 from 1910 until 1931.
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History and Management of the Hope Farm, Jamaica. Nature 133, 264–265 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133264b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133264b0