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all, to show the need there is to leave no stone 

 unturned to keep the estates up to "concert 

 pitch," as far as it lies within their power to do so. 

 The Madras Mail also has something to say 

 on this, but, be it noted, ends up with a word 

 of encouragement for the careful and leave- 

 nothing-to-chance man." "The fact is," we are 

 told, "that coco-nut cultivation is exceedingly 

 complex. Coco-nut palms require intensive 

 cultivation and high manuring, and they are 

 menaced by a number of irisect and fungoid 

 pests. In any case it is said to be courting 

 disaster to open any large area and plant it with 

 these palms in one year, if there is any uncer- 

 tainty as regards labour. The planter who 

 neglects his coco-nut plants for a few weeks in 

 the Monsoon and lets them get covered with 

 weeds, as at times coffee, tea and rubber trees 

 are covered, will find the few that remain alive 

 scarcely worth troubling about. Such, at any 

 rate, seems to be the view of men who have had 

 experience of this product. It is admitted, how- 

 ever, that if the coco-nut planter is able to go 

 and have a look at each plant almost every day 

 of the week, as does his Indian confrere, we 

 believe, it is quite likely that he will obtain 

 the best results." 



PRICES OF COCO-NUT PRODUCTS, c. 



The following were the comparative values 

 of the undermentioned crops in November, 

 1913 ; readers should compare them with 



