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and good fortune. I do not suggest that the problems are solved 
ny rate I know the practical 
eal. 
As you know, I did find a real fungus disease last year, 
Bagnisiopsis Dioscoreae [see K.B. 1918, p. 199], not a very 
serious pest but quite noticeable and very striking indeed. And 
as you know, perhaps, we have been having a great time with 
coconut bud-rot. In regard to that disease, it seems to me that 
too much has been made of Bacillus coli, and the elementary fact 
has been lost sight of that dicotyledenous plants die back follow- 
is the native. He doesn’t ‘‘ cultivate ’’ cocoa. e exploits a 
‘weed ”’ that yields a product closely allied to cocoa. I pointe 
this out to Government here. The great blight of cocoa is the 
in their country. I told the Government here that cocoa grew like 
a weed, that in fact it had to grow like a weed in order to survive. 
I illustrated this by reminding them how difficult it is to keep 
a prize vegetable (raised by long and nee aa selection) up 
to the prize standard. If it is put on poor land, is untended and 
reeze out’ the native if he fail to mend his ways. 
cocoa is the same variety (largely) as Gold Coast and 
The soils are about the same. The difference in price 
duct arises from this fact solely that Cameroons cocoa 
ts under the supervision of white 
to 
Cameroons 
igerian. 
of their pro ; 
was prepared by natives as servan 
