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planter, and the following table gives the results ob- 

 tained : 



Year's totals 215 61 139 95 232 72 176 178 142 162 139 206 1817 



1908. 



Jan. 3 . 57 40 113 11 22 21 85 29 38 84 22 11 



9 . 25 31 68 17 6 19 47 17 14 75 36 6 



Feb. 20 . 38 10 31 16 18 19 59 28 24 34 30 37 



120 81 212 44 46 59 191 74 76 193 88 54- 



-1238 



The six best trees in the table for the year 1907 are 

 Nos. 5, 1, 12, 8, 7, and 10, which show an average yield of 

 194-8 pods each. Adding the first two months of the 

 following year, the trees showing the heaviest yield for 

 the fourteen months are Nos. 7, 10, 3, 1, 5, and 12, with 

 an average yield of 324-3 pods each. The average during 

 the year 1907, for twelve trees, was 157-4 pods, and for 

 the fourteen months 254-5 pods. 



The table showing a year's produce from selected trees, 

 being an actual yield, is strong evidence that progress on 

 the lines of selection of prolific and disease-resisting kinds 

 will be the best means of increasing the annual yield, and 

 that there is a very large margin between the yield per tree 

 here found and the yield per tree with which estates are at 

 present credited. If trees under ordinary culture can 

 produce the yield of our table, it is siu-ely possible, given 

 well-planted trees of the same character (produced by 

 * Information supplied by J. Brown, Esq., San Diego Estate, Trinidad. 



