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rni^ht be used instead, and are, in fact, largely used, but there would be 

 sufficient shade without bananas. I agree that bananas are of no use 

 as a wind-break, although tbe damage that we are told they do to cacao 

 by falling on the trees I think at times is over-estimated. The great 

 thing to protect cacao from is the dryness, or rather the drying effect, 

 of the wind, and to this end nothing better than bananas can be 

 planted. 



