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I blush for the quack who wrote it. 1 know there are other 
causes of die-back in cocoa and other trees than lack of drainage. 
I have had such problems, but I am convinced that all of them 
can and must be solved without the aid of 1-12th in. objectives 
sporiaceous fungus (a sooty mould) which had grown on 
the secretions of the coccid it was said to kill. I regard 
the E.F.B.’s aforesaid as quacks, because so far I have 
ago, early in the rains (the spring). Seeing our nice fields of 
young maize, he asked, almost with a shudder, whether we got 
Oo 
extremely Tell marked here. One day, goin from my office to 
my quarters, I p 
Barly in the rains for two or three days thousands of migrating 
ibythei yi . The negro 
peasant knows that after that he may safely sow his cereal crops— 
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