456 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



frequently made in Samoa, but there is no 

 reason why they should be so large the 

 writer believes in making many small ones, 

 and at least one on every second acre. He 

 has forty now on a section of 80 acres, and 

 he is about to install forty additional tumus. 

 They cost little time and labour to construct, 

 as two coolies will make three or four a day, 

 and they last for years. The beetle pest in 

 German Samoa is certainly bad enough, but 

 it would probably be a calamity were it not 

 for the success of these breeding traps, and 

 the weekly hunt established by the Govern- 

 ment. 



