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Went down town in the morning to get a vehicle license but found the Treasury doesn't open till ten o'clock. So I went over to the office of the American Consul, Mr. Perry N. Jester, to see if there was any mail, and say Hello. Mr. Jester was very accommodating; insisted upon taking me to see Mr. Miller, Head of the Dept. of Agriculture, Mr. Shilstone, a lawyer who is Honorary Secretary of the Barbados Museum, the [[insertion]] ^ Parochial [[/insertion]] Treasurer, whom he persuaded to me a license free, and then sent me home in his car. I got a very poor map of the island at a stationary store, and a fine bunch of mail at the Consulate.
After lunch I went down to get the motor. I had to go to see the Customs Commissioner, but it was finally cleared. The warehouse is too crowded to store the crate, but they kept it for the night, and I rode home on the motor.
Mr. Jester phoned later to say he had gotten in touch with Mr. Tucker, R. Agr. Entomologist, and arranged for me to accompany him on a trip to sugar estates on the island. I must meet him down town at 7:45. Tucker is apparently well-liked, a good economic entomologist, and blind in one eye. 

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At 7:45 I was at the Dept. of Agriculture, and Mr. Tucker arrived on time. Five other plant inspectors were in the party and we took two cars. We drove out along highway #3 to Lemon Arbour Estate, then on to Pool Estate, then down to the coast road at Codrington College, and to Bath Estate. At each of these three estates we stopped to study the extent of infestation of sugar cane moth borer. The number of unreapable canes in each stool [[insertion]] ^ out [[/insertion]] of 100 examples) was taken, and later the number of bad sections in the reapable canes can be counted at the factories. 
At Bath I found some dung.

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Bath Estate in parish of St. John on east coast. In dung found one Xantholininae!
We then returned to Codrington College, ate lunch on the savannah, and then went in to look at the college itself. A student showed us around the new building which replaces one burned in 1926.
Went on southwest to highway #4, turned up by Police Station G, to Mt. Pleasant Estate. After this we went northward to Pool Estate and then home on highway #3.
During the whole day we saw practically nothing but sugarcane, in various stages. Occasional half-acre plots of mahogany tree are the

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