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the station growing in land which is under definite cultivation 
for other crops and the marked effect of good treatment on these 
trees is shown in the following table. 
No. of bear- No. of Weight of | Weight of 
ing Palms. | bunches. bunches. | clean fruit. 
| Tbs. Ibs. 
b-acre plot... sez 357 223 4,355 2,737 
Odd Palms... vas 224 805 | 13,071 8,217 
In both cases the yield is considerably in excess of the previous 
year, the return from the scattered palms being quite remark- 
able. It should be noted that the 5-acre plot has not yet been 
under soil cultivation. 
il palm cultivation is being taken up outside West Africa 
and promising results are indicated in the Agricultura] Bulletin, 
Federated Malay States, vol. v., Nos. 11 and 12, 1917, 439. 
Several acres of Elaeis guineensis were planted at the Kuala 
—— experiment station in December, 1912, and a number 
of the 
ditions are suitable. 
n this connection the results obtained in the Seychelles with 
the cultivation of the African oil palm are 1 
as is shown by the following account taken from the Annual 
ee — Agriculture and Crown Lands, Seychelles, for the year 
“The results hitherto obtained with another introduced palm 
v be 
large extent, as already recommended in 1912. This palm, 
which produces several i 
and palm kernels, has foun 
unch was as much as 2392 and each fruit was fully developed 
and perfectly ripe; a bunch of this size yields as much oil as 
fruits are so good to eat that all the emp oyees and labourers of 
the Botanic Station are very fond of them, besides the Ashanti 
political prisoners who are regular visitors of the garden in search 
