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places. Once every two months we throw 

 out the dirt and decaying shells and gather 

 in the eggs, beetles, and larvae. The Govern- 

 ment maintains breeding traps in various places 

 which are examined every three months, and 

 large catches are made. This method of 

 attacking the beetle is expanding a lot, and 

 will soon become very general. American 

 Samoa is so far untouched by the beetle, but 

 every Monday morning all of the able-bodied 

 natives of German Samoa are sent out to 

 hunt beetles, and they usually return with 

 from fifty to 100 or more larvae. Some of 

 the districts, as yet unaffected, are of course 

 excepted, but nevertheless the search is made 

 for possible beetles. 



A good breeding bed for beetles is made 

 as follows : 



Take four coco-nuts logs each about 6 ft. 

 long ; lay them so as to form a square. Cut 

 up a lot of partly rotten coco-nut or other 

 wood, which the beetles are fond of, all well 

 rotted, of course. Then dump inside two, or 

 more, hundred-weight of cacao pods just as they 

 come from the breaking up ; then cover the 

 whole with soft earth, about 6 or 8 in. deep. 

 Let the bed lie undisturbed for about eight or 

 ten weeks ; then throw outside the contents, 

 and pick up the larvae and eggs. After this, 

 fill in your materials again, and then add a few 

 more cacao shells if you can get them. Very 

 large "tumus," as they are called here, are 



