ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Head of Coconut Palm 



Uncultivated Coconut Garden 



Ploughed Field 



Female Flower 



Coconut Palm Grown from a Green Nut 



. ■ Yellow Nut 



Ploughing with Buffaloes 



Cletrac Tractor 



Copra Drying Room 



Expressing Oil by " Chekku " 



Nut Fall and Leaf Droop 



Leaf Break Disease: Early Stage .. 



■ : Late Stage 



Rhinoceros or Black Beetle 



Abandoned Coconut Estate In which Coconut 



Beetles are Breeding 

 Coconut Red Weevil— Showing Damage Done to Stem 



■ Showing Damage Done to 



Young Palms 



Red Weevil— In Different Stages 



— Showing Damage to Top and Bottom 



of Palms 

 Coconut Caterpillar 



— ■ Palm with Fronds skeletontzed by CaterpilSar 



Ploughing with Tractor 



Cletrac Tractor with Disc Harrow 



Sanderson Tractor 



Fordson Tractor 



Husking Machine 



Coconut Picking ' ... 



Tractor-Ploughed Field 



Avery Tractor 



Coir Mat-Making 



[For the Illustrations found in this book we are indebted to the Director of Agriculture, 

 the Director of Statistics, Messrs. Plate & Co.. the Colombo Commercial Co., Ltd., and 

 " Trent Vale," to whom we tender our thanks —CD.] 



