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coffee  is  becoming  more  and  more  restricted  on  account  of 
the  ravages  of  insects,  the  cocoa  plantations,  which  in  1898 
were  conlined  to  the  immediate  neighbourhood  of  the  coast, 
are  now  covering  the  South-eastern  slopes  of  the  Cameroon 
Mountains. 
Tobacco  is  grown  by  a few  planters,  and  large  rubber 
plantations  have  been  started  near  Victoria. 
The  labour  question,  on  which  so  much  of  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Colony  depends,  is  less  acute  than  formerly. 
A certain  number  of  labourers  have  still  to  be  imported,  but 
cheap  native  labour  is  becoming  more  easily  obtainable, 
though  the  native,  as  a rule,  is  neither  a very  intelligent 
nor  reliable  person. 
The  following  appears  under  the  head  of  Togoland  adjoining  on 
Gold  Coast  Colony: — 
The  standard  of  native  agriculture  is  low,  and  though 
yams,  tobacco,  kola,  cocoa,  coffee  and  cotton  are  grown, 
the  quantities  produced  are  inconsiderable. 
There  was  a more  plentiful  supply  of  rubber  than  in  the 
preceding  year,  and  efforts  are  being  made  to  guard  against 
a possible  exhaustion  of  the  old  stock  by  fresh  plantations. 
The  prospects  of  the  coco-nut  palm  plantations  are  good, 
but  the  experiments  made  by  Europeans  with  kola,  cocoa, 
coffee,  and  tobacco  have  not  as  yet  been  attended  with 
much  success. 
Considerable  hopes,  however,  are  founded  on  those  that 
have  recently  been  made  in  several  districts  with  cotton 
growing.  A cotton  plantation,  covering  some  J20  acres, 
was  started  in  1899  in  the  Agu  Hills,  and  another  one  was 
commenced  last  year  at  Tove,  near  Misahohe,  under  the 
direction  of  three  American  experts.  Soon  105  acres  have 
been  sown  chiefly  with  American  seed,  though  Egyptian 
and  native  seeds  were  also  partially  employed.  The  sam- 
ples of  cotton  which  have  been  sent  to  Bremen  have  been 
classed  as  ^^above  middling  American^’  and  the  success  or 
failure  of  the  Togo  cotton  plantations  is  believed  to  depend 
solely  on  the  question  of  transport. 
INSECTS  DESTROYED  THROUGH  LUMINOUS 
SNARES. 
Read  the  following  letter  from  the  Manager,  Comptoir  de  T 
Acetylene,  of  Paris  : — 
“We  call  your  esteemed  attention  to  the  new  method  of 
destroying  insects,  carried  on  with  great  success  in  Europe 
and  Colonies.  The  laying  time  taking  place  early  in  May 
there  is  urgency  to  act,  especially  as  many  of  these  vermins 
