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[[margin]] III-6-36 [[/margin]] At 8 A.M. met Tucker at the Dept. of Agriculture. We drove out along highway #1 along the leeward coast to the parish of St. Lucy at the northern tip of the island. We passed through Holetown and Speightstown (spites), and stopped just at Brome Field Estate. From here we went to the Husbands, Harrison, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Friendship and Springhall Estates. At each the man made counts of sugar canes and the damage by moth borer. I tried to find some place to collect but was surrounded on all sides by the cane fields. At Friendship Estate I took a photo in the midst of a cane field
[[margin]][[underlined]] Photo #85 [[/underlined]][[/margin]] (Exp. 1/100 + 10 at 6 ft.). At Springhall we stopped for lunch and in one of the fields I opened a termite nest. It was [[underlined]] Nasutitermes [[/underlined]], but the nest was so soft I could crush it with a light stick. I found winged forms and what may be young queens, but no royal chamber.

[[underlined]] Station 191. [[/underlined]]
Springhall Estate in parish of St. Lucy, about 2 miles northeast of St. Lucy's Church. In a cane field found only a few termites. 

We returned by highway no. 2, passing along the foot of cliffs, through [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] mahogany woods, and over deep ravines or "gullies." 

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[[margin]] III-7-36 [[/margin]] Mr. Tucker came by at 9:00 this morning to take us to see a sugar factory and the insectary. He had also another couple and a lady. We went along highway #4 into St. Georges parish to the Bulkeley Estate, one of the largest in the island. We were conducted through the large and modern factory. The other man in our party asked a continual stream of questions, with the result that the rest of us heard no explanation of any of the various parts or machines. It also prolonged the tour considerably so that it became somewhat boring.

We then returned to Bridgetown, had a slight accident on a corner (ran into a donkey cart) and went to the Dept. of Agriculture. Here Mr. Tucker outlined the work against the sugar cane moth borer, showing us each step: The rearing of the corn borer host; obtaining its eggs on cards in known quantities; exposing these to the parasites- [[underlined]] Diatraea [[/underlined]], which lay its eggs in the eggs of the host; the refrigeration of the infested eggs to retard development; and the distribution to planters for liberation. The program is one which has not been successful in some countries but apparently has given a 50% increase in sugar here. The planters are