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orchardist or gardener places four posts around the tree and on top 

 of these he builds a small house. During the night someone dwells 

 in this place in order to startle these various pests when they come 

 to plunder or destroy the fruit. Another method is to gather some 

 bamboo reeds which are from five to seven feet long, and sway them 

 continually back and forth. This latter method is used to drive off 

 pests like the bats. 



No labor difficulties are experienced in picking the fruit, 

 though in Kwangtung much of it is picked during the harvest of the 

 first crop of rice or the planting of the second. Hut labor is as 

 plentiful in China as it is scarce in the West. And this is a legiti- 

 mate reason why the Chinese should employ so many intensive 

 methods of Ivchee culture. 



