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agriculture and including soil physics and meteorology) the chief 
subject. I would bar microscopes till the last year of the training. 
Every spare hour should be in the field. Particularly futile I 
set in. Once the Harmattan sets in (it is more or less intense 
from the start) defoliation is rapid. That is followed by a 
meagre flush of new foliage, the leaves of which are greatly 
reduced in size. Flowers may still and do continue to appear, 
but the bolls are undersized, are often badly worm-infested, and 
when mature their cotton is rarely worth picking. ow you 
might think that it would pay to plant a week or two or even a 
less, boll-less things you could imagine, blighted beyond recovery. 
do not believe that spraying would be of the least good for the 
fungi (it would never pay on the bread-and-cheese cut-priced 
cottons we have to gr e), f the 
elminated there would still be the other physiological troubles. 
much reduced in size, and hardly any nuts are formed e 
I came here in 1912 I never questioned the time of planting. I 
took it for granted as correct. ound myself up against this 
the tubercles on the roots were apparently normal. The natives 
bo-sict grow them much here, and, truth to tell, I didn’t think 
of asking them about the crop. I couldn’t get to Northern 
