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Tlie Cochiiilemon grass (andropogon flexiiosiis) lias 
been introduced this year from South India. It j)rodu- 
ces, according to Professor Dunstan, a better oil, with a 
higher citral content, tlian the ordinary lemon grass 
(andropogon citratus). 
Scale Insects. 
Great relief was experienced this year on hnding 
after the advent of the wet season, that natural parasites 
were keeping scale insects under control. The artificial 
methods of control, such as spraying &c., were too ex¬ 
pensive to be adopted on a large scale, and in the mean¬ 
time the scale insects have been gaining ground all over 
the country. The periods of violent attacks by scales is 
over in the more infested places, and it is to be hoped, 
now that the controlling parasites are in the ascendant, 
that the natural means of combating scales will be 
adopted at once in other places. Prom 1904 to 1911 the 
periods of drought favoured the development of scales, 
and the first wet season we are having for the last seven 
years is sufficient to cause the natural parasites to appear. 
The green scale (Lecaniuni viride) is attacked by a 
white fungus on coffee and funtumia rubber ; the black 
scale (Lecanium nigrum) on Hevea rubber by a reddish 
brown fungus (a species of hypocrella according to Fetch); 
the star scale (Vinsonia stellifera) on gutta percha by a 
greyish white fungus ; the mealy bug (Icerya Seychel- 
larum) on Lovi Lovi (Placourtia inermis) by a red headed 
fungus. 
These fungoid parasites have been found above 800 
feet elevation, although the white fungus on Lecanium 
viride and the reddish brown fungus on Lecanium 
nigrum are present here and there in the low country. 
No time should be lost in propagating them aU over 
the Archipelago. This is being done already by one or 
two planters by tying leaves and twigs infected with 
fungi to other trees attacked by scale insects which are 
not parasitised. 
Fisheries. 
The exports from the Outlying Islands amounted to :— 
Tortoise shell 
Salted Pish 
Calipee 
Trepang 
Turtle bones 
Salted Turtle 
Shark oil 
Turtle oil 
Green Turtle shell 
1,165 kilos 
7,895 „ 
1,892 „ 
797 „ 
150,000 „ 
5 casks 
137 litres (samples) 
158 ,, (samples) 
645 kilos 
The industry of raising carets shows increasing 
prospects of success. A park of forty acres was built 
this year at Curieuse by Mr Chenard, in which it is pro¬ 
posed to rear 1,000 carets. Last year several parks 
were established at Alphonse Island by the Mahe 
Syndicate, and the experience gained by this Company 
will serve as a guide to Mr Chenard, who is working 
under less favouralile conditions. 
The quantity of fish required (any flesh will do as 
a substitute : rabbit, turtle, &c.) is pretty high about 
2 lbs being necessary per diem for each caret over two 
years. The number of carets raised up to date shows 
that 50 o/o die every year from the first to the fourth 
