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coconut crops. Experiments indicate that light, 
well-drained loams of average water retaining 
capacity, well worked up, should give the best results 
and that steep and stiff land should be avoided. 
Cultivation must be intensive, as opposed to present 
extensive methods, and this point would probably 
decide the success or otherwise of planting cotton. 
The eastern and northern States of the Peninsula 
offer the best prospects for cotton cultivation on 
account of their more defined wet and dry seasons 
and their lighter soils. 
