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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 confined 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 J 20 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 4 iave 
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 V 
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 
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