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say at distances of not more than five miles apart. (This 

 has been initiated on a small scale, the men in charge 

 being given a few weeks' instruction before taking up the 

 work.) Such plots need not be of considerable size, and 

 could be as small as would carry 200 trees. 



(4) The starting of communal spraying outfits in con- 

 junction with model plots. Sprayers should take some 

 form of pneumatic machine, and stock solutions of 

 insecticides and fungicides should be supplied at cost 

 price. 



(5) The awarding of prizes for well-conducted farms in 

 various districts. 



(6) Encouragement to be given to schoolmasters to 

 become local experts. 



(7) The adoption of legislative measures for neglect if 

 necessary. Care must be taken that advisory officers are 

 not employed to carry out such measures, for by so doing 

 their work would be heavily discounted. 



(8) The adoption of control factories for fermenting, 

 curing, and shipping of cured cocoa. 



(9) The utilization of the numerous large school 

 gardens in which as yet too much attention is bestowed 

 upon the manual work to the detriment of the education 

 side. 



(10) The furnishing of all schools in cocoa-growing 

 districts with coloured wall illustrations of the pests and 

 diseases, the evils of bad pruning, the types of good 

 pruning, together with actual specimens. At the same 

 time illustrations of mosquitoes, etc., could also be 

 presented, for it must be remembered that it is a good 

 investment to devote special attention to the schools, as 

 it is from this rising generation that improved farmers 

 are to be expected. 



