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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
CYPRUS AS I SAW IT IN 1879
page 411 View PDF version of this page There is a reward given by government for the ' destruction of locust eggs. Each female deposits two small cases or sheaths beneath the ground, con-| taining thirty or forty eggs in each. The position is easily distinguished by a shining slimy substance. A certain sum per oke is given, and the people gladly j avail themselves of the opportunity of earning money at the same time that they destroy the common enemy.
The British administration is keenly alive to the importance of this warfare, and I have frequently met. commissioners of districts galloping in hot haste, as though in pursuit of a retreating enemy, towards some quarter where the appearance of locust swarms may have been reported, in order to take immediate measures for their destruction.
Unfortunately the locust is not the only enemy of. cotton cultivation, but the (to my mind) abominable system of dimes, or tenths of produce to be valued while growing, restricts the cultivator to an inferior variety that will remain within the pod, instead o l expanding when liberated by ripening.
The cultivation of cotton differs according to the
many varieties of the plant. Pliny described the
" wool-bearing trees of Ethiopia, " and I have myself
seen the indigenous cotton thriving in a wild state ini
those parts from whence they were first introduced to
Egypt, during the reign of Mehemet Ali, grandfather
of the Khedive. It is well known that although com
paratively a recent article of cultivation in Egypt, it^
has become one of the most important exports from
that country. Cotton of the first quality requires a.
peculiar combination of local conditions. Water must
be at command whenever required during the various
stages of cultivation ; and perfectly dry weather must
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