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generation to keep up the quality, unless at the same time 

 an officer of the Government be appointed to attend to seed 

 selection, as is done in Egypt and the West Indies. 



Capitalist planters are often strenuously opposed to the 

 encouragement of villagers in growing "export" products, for 

 they steal from the large plantations, and use their own few 

 trees as a blind. But this difficulty can be got over by more 

 stringent legislation, especially by licensing all dealers. 



