52 FROGHOPPER BLIGHT OF SUGAR-CANE. 



And I do hereby order that this Proclamation shall come into force 

 on the day of its first publication in the Saint Lucia Gazette. 



Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Island 

 of Saint Lucia at the Government Office, in the said 

 Island, this twentieth day of September, in the 

 Year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and 

 seventeen and in the eighth year of the Reign of 

 His Majesty King George the Fifth. 



By His Honour's Command, 



B. P. E. BULSTRODE, 

 Chief Clerk, Government Office, 



God Save the King. 



Note. — The above Proclamation is i-ssued to protect the St. Lucia 

 sugar industry against the introduction of a small insect known as the 

 Froghopper which is capable of doing very serious damage to sugar-cane 

 cultivation. 



The sugar-cane froghopper lives on almost any kind of wild grass as 

 well as si^ofar-cane, and it has therefore been necessary to include the 

 whole of the grass family known as Graminacese within this Proclamation. 



The Graminacese is one of the most valuable and extensive Order of 

 plants, and comprises between 3,000 and 4,000 species. To it belong 

 the cereals and pasture grasses. . 



The importation therefore of such plants as sugar-cane, bamboo, 

 wheat, barley, rye, Indian corn, millet, Guinea corn, rice, .Job's tears, 

 and all grasses, are prohibited except under the conditions of this 

 Proclamation, from the places mentioned in the said Proclamation. 



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