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197. Tho**© i«. however, r-c -eason to believethat a similar schene would have made any headwayin our own Northern Territories, where the amoiuitof d^y-season farming land (fadama) is extremelylimited and cane prices are as high as 1d. per lb.Sugar- is not an essential constituent of diet, andthere are many more useful crops to which 6pare land,if an;/, might be devoted. The demand for sweetmeatscan, when conditions are normal, be met again by theImport of boiled sweets or by the local manufactureof sweets from imported sugar.Addendum,-(Na tal papers please copy).X X X XEDITORIAL - GOLD COASX "SPECTATOR DAILY"FEBRUARY 12TH, 194"oT198. But the country has now a worse experience;Congo sugar seems to have been withdrawn from the marketand replaced by another granulated sugar, called Natalsugar which is today in large supply in the country. Ithas dark brown eolour; very much sandy and tasteless.A small pinch of it in a quantity of water is sufficientto tinge the water brown. Perhaps the crudest processis used in producing the commodity. It is unfit forhuman consumption. The people should not be helped tostake their life on it. The Natal sugar should bewithdrawn in the interest of the health of the people.Anything Bhould not be considered good for the people.SOYABEANS.199. Like ourselves the Nigerian Department hasdevoted a deal of attention to "oya beans since 1942 :like our own the results have been very variable, accordingto the variety grown and the time of planting. Underfavourable conditions yields, as in the Gold Coast, haveranged from about 500 to 1,000 lb. per acre.200. A large number of varieties has been undertest. 33 varieties were tried at Moor Plantation in1944, the highest yielder bring Trinidad, at 56O lb. peracre. A notable omission from the list is the black-seededFort Lamy, which has given the most consistently highyields in the Cold Coast forest belt.201. /