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estate, must be employed daily at this work in every plantation. 

 The less bark you cut away, the sooner the wound will heal. 



These beetles or caterpillars are, as it were, peculiar to the 

 cacao-tree. As early as 1804 we find, in a work published 

 by the Planter's Union "de Eensgezindheid" in the division 

 Matappica, these beetles made mention of. 



It has been perceived of late that, in the young plantations 

 many tender trees perish without any apparent cause. If, 

 however, you dig up such a tree, you will see that the beetles 

 have attacked the tree from below, and eaten into the very 

 core. Such a tree is irretrievably lost. Unfortunately this 

 evil cannot be prevented or remedied. 



Then you have the large red caterpillar haunting the shade- 

 trees, and coming forth later on from the pupa as a grey 

 evening moth. These caterpillars are occasionally so plentiful, 

 that in the morning they are found lying under the trees by 

 thousands, where they die, causing a nauseous smell, but at 

 the same time enriching the soil as manure. The evil they do 

 is: eating away the verdure of the cacao-tree. It is true the 

 tree does not die of it, but the time that it requires to put forth 

 fresh leaves again, it is at a stand still, and calls for more vigo- 

 rous exertions in the tree. The only way to drive these caterpillars 

 from the cacao-tree is to beat them off". 



Of late, too, another species of beetle has been discovered, 

 having short wing-cases, and covered with bright yellow spots. 

 These fall in swarms upon cacao-leaves and devour them 

 entirely, producing the same evil as above described. 



The cacao-lice are vermin equally troublesome, that appear 



