Each man who comes to shoot must pay two hundred and fifty dollars for his license as well as employ at least thirty natives for his transport.

He must buy supplies, pay ten per cent.
import and export tax, and in many other ways spend money which goes toward paying the expenses of government.

The government also is encouraging various agricultural and stock raising experiments, but these have not yet passed the experimental stage.

Almost anything may be grown in British East Africa, but before agriculture can be made to pay the vast herds of wild game must either be exterminated or driven away.
No fence will keep out a herd of zebra, and in one rush a field of grain is ruined by these giant herds.

Experiments have failed satisfactorily to domesticate the zebra, and so he remains a menace to agriculture and a nuisance in all respects except as adding a picturesque note to the landscape.
Colonel Roosevelt, in a recent speech in Nairobi, spoke of British East Africa as a land of enormous possibilities and promise, but in talks with many men here I found that little money has been made by those who have gone into agriculture in a large way.