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health, by practising good cultivation. Healthy 

 plants seem capable, by their own vigour, of keep- 

 ing off injurious insects; and it will generally be 

 found that an attack has been preceded by some 

 check to growth which lowers the condition of the 

 plant. It is claimed that even the white ant will 

 not attack a completely healthy plant. Good and 

 clean cultivation should therefore be always main- 

 tained, and on an infested field, attention to culti- 

 vation should be given simultaneously with treat- 

 ment to the trees. 



It will be seen that our list of insect enemies is 

 not a lengthy one, and that Eubber has practically 

 none. 



On the staff of the Agricultural Department, a 

 qualified Entomologist has been working for some 

 years; and " An Account of Insects injurious to 

 Economic Products," published by him last year, 

 and detailing the experience he has gained, is of 

 great service to planters. 



The Uganda Planters' Association have im- 

 ported a large quantity of insecticides and appa- 

 ratus, and propose to keep in the country a stock 

 sufficiently large to deal with any outbreak. 



Stringent regulations against the importation 



