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supply high yields claimed the bearing age for 

 how long will the palms yield ? more about prices 

 coco-nut planting an old industry in Panama 

 catch-crops vegetables fruit cattle and milk 

 hogs poultry cattle-grazing very profitable 

 the question of hops. 



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Acreage under coco-nuts number of palms copra 

 exported the natives discussed and compared 

 native v. European ownership the Deutsches 

 Handel und Plantagen Ges. Mr. Frank Jepson 

 on the rhino beetle in Samoa results of neglecting 

 to check the beetle relative cost of labour in the 

 South Seas restricted labour supplies tend to 

 cause increased pest trouble Mr. Jared Smith 

 recommends Samoa nuts for Hawaii how the 

 rhino beetle came to Samoa and spread the 

 harm done by the beetles pests and manuring 

 cattle and cover-crops catch-crops inter- 

 planting and belts more about cattle lalang grass 

 cattle v. ploughing mowing machines for grass 

 others suggest Passiflora fceftda the danger of 

 fire mimosa its spines a drawback the best 

 way to plant planting and root growth nurseries 

 v. planting at stake how they plant in New 

 Guinea holing planting avoid stagnant water 

 planting distances leaf transpiration avoid 

 close planting flowering age in Samoa yield of 

 copra per acre the causes of gaps damage by 

 cattle yields again number of nuts per ton of 

 copra picking v. allowing nuts to fall one cen- 

 tral drying station v. several smaller ones a 

 Samoa kiln described its capacity and cost its 

 disadvantages rotary dryers preferred Samoa 

 has room for more estates its future output con- 

 sidered Samoa as a centre for mixed crops will 

 Samoa produce 30,000 tons of copra in 1922 or 

 1924? 



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The soil and rainfall the locality of the estates the 

 present output is it 80,000,000 nuts ? the Arab 

 and Indian owners why the copra is low grade 



