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hand-picking or allowing to drop Wm. S. Lyon on 

 drawback of latter method bearing age and yields 

 comparative table of returns of oil, coir, &c., per 

 1,000 nuts or ton of copra Cuba discussed bud- 

 rot coco-nuts in Mauritius. 



PLANTING IN PAPUA (British New Guinea) 75 



The population outside labour discouraged natives 

 good for estate work soil and rainfall area under 

 cultivation total coco-nut palms 350,000 acres 

 of coco-nuts the soil described nuts to half ton 

 of copra two estimates for clearing and planting 

 catch-crops stump-grubbing and ploughing 

 an outsider's description of Papua as a planting 

 centre. 



PLANTING IN THE PHILIPPINES ... ... 83 



Tribute to Barrett, Dean Worcester, Lyon, Copeland 

 the Lapoc Plantation Co. coco-nuts and Ceard, 

 rubber catch- crops Dean Worcester optimis- 

 tic untidy estates copra and oil exports 

 beetles and wild pigs the compost heap nets 

 full of rats Barrett on cultivation and 

 burying refuse compost heaps again cost of 

 clearing lands necessity of cultivation Cogon 

 grass disc harrow v. plough cost of collecting 

 nuts and preparing copra and oil 2,000 nuts 

 husked per day cost of planting and laying out 

 estates Manila hemp and coco-nuts advantages 

 of cattle and of irrigation another estimate 

 estate stores cost of ploughs the question of 

 yields avoid palms overlapping further estimates 

 planting distances quincunx v. square planting 

 coco-nut returns compared toother crops Dean 

 Worcester on planting distances and catch-crops 

 maize and rice cost of seed-nuts advantages 

 of ploughing more about yields. 



CULTIVATION IN PANAMA 106 



Perhaps the best of all centres outside hurricane 

 belt other advantages, /.., rainfall, soil, &c. the 

 San Bias nuts their high selling value seashore 

 and inland nuts discussed the Atlantic and Pacific 

 coasts and nuts compared excellent subsoil water 



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