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trees have, however, so far been killed in 

 Samoa by over-powerful injections. As the 

 branches grow the painting will have to be 

 repeated, probably every four months, but it 

 only takes fifteen minutes and costs 2jd. It 

 has also been found here that cacao trees 

 painted with the refuse of carbide of calcium 

 whitewash are almost immune from the canker 

 which, in a very bad form, is very prevalent in 

 Samoa on neglected properties. Bud-rot has 

 so far never shown itself in any of the islands 

 of the Pacific. The Tonga group produce 

 about the same quantity of copra per annum 

 as is raised in Samoa, but owing to lack of 

 regulation it is generally of a lower grade. 

 Tahiti, the Marquesas, Potmutus, the Ellice, 

 Phoenix and Gilbert groups in the South 

 Pacific, and the Marshalls and Carolines in 

 the North Pacific, also produce much copra ; 

 but the industry cannot be greatly extended 

 in the Coral Islands, although there are no 

 plagues or disease, because the available supply 

 of land is almost all used up. 



The cultivation of rubber and cacao attracts 

 more attention in Samoa than does the cultiva- 

 tion of palms, but when the canker seemed 

 to threaten the cacao industry many colonists 

 at once interplanted coco-nuts on their cacao 

 estates, and they are now coming to the time 

 when they will have to choose which plant 

 they will permanently retain. By the liberal 

 use of potash manures it has been found that 

 the coco-nuts and the cacao have, so far, 



