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men who had a State-consciousness and valued their reputations. 
No amount of preaching will make the native improve. 
Adversity may force his hand, but he may simply revert to yams 
and cassava and trading wild stuff. I think he will, in fact, 
People talk at length about the phenomenal progress of cocoa on 
the Gold Coast. 1 took it on myself (when acting D. of A.) to tell 
the Government that it would have been better for the cocoa had 
the rate of increased production (which isn’t progress if the 
of a small hen’s egg. I could see they weren’t eelworm galls, 
but was inclined to think the roots were there by accident. One 
“gall’’ was not quite so decayed as the other, and in folds or 
depressions of it I noticed groups of hairs very similar to those 
of mite galls. Yet I couldn’t believe that such things could be 
made by mites, and a section of the “‘ gall’’ was not helpful. So 
wired for more specimens of the galls, and got them—things 
dike big lumpy potatoes, and some bigger, on rubber roots. all 
right. This time came a letter, in which the manager said he 
also sent a small packet of a bush plant that seemed always to be 
growing near attacked trees, and wished to know if it had any- 
Sipe Some I followed out for six feet or more and failed to 
d the ends of them. I had very little time, not enough in fact, 
nee tae where they pnea the host, and had to leave 
hbeatern a, for a native overseer to look for the “tubers.” Some 
= — bf thee? had seen the Ade-ile in our rubber plantation 
ine a itis ee to them. Now, in connection with most 
from 1912 CxS {lave personally seen hundreds of trees dug up 
om onwards and never yet met adi¥  Cabels”’ on the tests: 
