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from an application of pink-coloured soil.
If top soil costs the same as farmyard manure the former is better.
Reasons for this being so. A compost of pink soil and manures may be
made, which will equal good farmyard manure, and cost but little more.
The manurial value of pulp, and of dry fallen leaves.
Manurial value of green twigs of trees, ferns and wood ashes.
Night soil. Lime.
Bonedust. Fish manure.
Oil-cakes. Proportion of phosphate of lime in castor cake.
Nitrates of potash and soda.
Potash. A manure of doubtful value in the case of Mysore soils.
Attempt to ascertain value of potash as a manure for coffee.
How to grow young plants in old soils. Coprolites, discovery of, in
Mysore.
An agricultural chemist wanted for the province. A careful record
should be kept of manure applied.
Bringing round a neglected plantation. Steps that should be taken.
Manurial experiments.
Native manurial practises should be studied. Application of various
soils as top dressing by native cultivators. The best and most
economical way of manuring coffee has yet to be discovered.

Manurial experiments need not be costly.

CHAPTER XIII.
--NURSERIES, TOPPING, HANDLING, PRUNING, ETC.
The selection of seed.
Irrigated coffee near Bangalore. Mr. Meenakshia's gardens. The
selection of a site for a nursery.
The best time for putting down the seed.
Plants should be grown in baskets. The pits for vacancy plants.
Topping. The best heights for.
The time when trees should be topped.
Handling and the removal of suckers. Its importance as regards rot and
leaf disease.
Pruning.
Management of pruning, with reference to rot and leaf disease.
The removal of moss and rubbing down the trees. The cultivation of the
soil.
Difficulties connected with the proper cultivation of the soil.
The best tools for digging. Renovation pits.
Renovation pits valuable as water-holes. Their value in connection with
water conservation.

CHAPTER XIV.
--THE DISEASES OF COFFEE.
Leaf disease, or attacks of _Hemeleïa Vastatrix_.
Mr. Marshall Ward's report on leaf disease in Ceylon. Leaf disease
probably always existed in Mysore. Said to have caused much loss on
some estates.
Losses of leaves from other causes commonly attributed to leaf disease.
No reason to fear it if land is well cultivated, manured, and shaded.
Evidence that shade can control leaf disease.
Bad kinds of shade trees cannot control, but increase leaf disease.
Conditions under which leaf disease is liable to occur in the cases of
good soil under good shade trees.
The importance of manure and cultivation with reference to leaf disease.

Mr. Graham Anderson's, Mr. Marshall Ward's and Mr. Brooke
Mockett's opinions. The Coorg plant not so liable to be attacked as the
Chick plant.
The Borer insect.
Borer is worst under bad kinds of shade trees, but can be controlled by
good caste trees.
Conditions favorable to attacks of the Borer.
Reasons for thinking that the usual practice of destroying all bored
trees is of little use.
The Borer can only be suppressed by adequate shade. Rot, or
pellicularia koleroga. Aggravated by want of free circulation of air.
Measures for lessening rot. Importance of meeting monsoon with
mature leaves on the coffee trees.
Green-bugs. None in Mysore, Receipt for killing them used on Nilgiri
Hills.

CHAPTER XV.
--THE SELECTION OF LAND FOR PLANTATIONS, AND THE
VALUATION OF COFFEE PROPERTY.
Much uncleared land available in northern part of Mysore.
The various classes of forest lands.
Much land unsuitable from over heavy rainfall. Mr. Graham
Anderson's return of rainfall. His interesting memorandum.
Elevation of plantations above sea level. With a few exceptions not
much difference in value of the coffee of various estates.
The especial importance of aspect in Mysore.
The most favourable gradients. Various kinds of soil.
Comparative healthiness of the different coffee districts in Mysore.
Various considerations to be taken into account when valuing land.
An old established estate may not necessarily be an old plantation.
The quality of the shade ought largely to affect a valuation of a
property.
Facilities that should be considered when valuing a property.
Impossible to offer opinion as to value of coffee property, till facts as
regard it are widely known, and the line is opened to western coast.

CHAPTER XVI.
--HOW TO MAKE AN ESTATE PAY, AND THE ORDER OF THE
WORK.
Inferior parts of estates should be thrown out of cultivation.
The losses caused by giving advances.
Advances not so necessary as formerly, as labour rates are higher now.
Advances to Maistries to bring labour.
Minor sources of loss. The order in which the various works should be
performed.

CHAPTER XVII.
--THE MANAGEMENT OF ABSENTEE ESTATES.
"The fact is, we all require a little looking after."
Advisable to give manager an interest in the estate. Managers for
estates in Mysore require to be very carefully selected.
A clear understanding essential between