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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 proprietor and manager.
Powers of attorney should be carefully drawn up. The proprietor entirely in the power of the manager.
The value of the eye of the owner. Every estate should have an information book.
Points to be entered in the information book.
Hints to managers.

CHAPTER XVIII.
--THE PLANTER'S BUNGALOW AND THE AMENITIES OF AN ESTATE.
The best form of bungalow.
The kitchen arrangements.
The aspect of the bungalow and ground around it.
Cash value of the amenities of an estate. The flower garden.
Building materials.
How to keep out white ants.
Coolie lines.
Tree planting for timber and fuel.
Precautions for the conservation of health.
Hints as regards food, and the table generally.
Suggestions as to books and newspapers.
Importance of having some interesting pursuit.
The minor amenities of an estate.
The conditions of a planter's life now ameliorated by railways.
Mysore out of the reach of House of Commons faddists. Advantages of this.

CHAPTER XIX.
--THE INDIAN SILVER QUESTION.
On June 26th, 1893, gold standard introduced and mints closed to free coinage of silver.
Movement originated in India by the servants of Government, and from no other class whatever.
Some merchants afterwards joined in the agitation. Gold to be received at the mints at a ratio of 1s. 4d. per rupee. Sovereigns in payment of sums due to Government to be received at the rate of fifteen rupees a sovereign.
Cash effects of the measure. For benefit of English reader figures given in pounds sterling, a rupee taken at 2s. Rupee prices little changed in India, China and Ceylon. Difficulty of forming exact estimates as to this.
If gold value of silver can be forced up from 1s. 3d. to 1s. 4d., Indian Government will gain about one and a half million sterling on its home remittances, and the people lose about seven millions on their exports.
The Indian Finance Minister contemplates a rise to 1s. 6d. eventually.
A rise to 1s. 6d. would give the Exchequer a gain on home remittances of ��4,500,000 and entail on the people a loss ��21,000,000, equal to a tax of 21 per cent. on the exports of India. Effects of this on the producers.
The producers of coffee in Mysore alone would lose ��56,000 a year were exchange forced up to 1s. 4d., and ��156,000 a year were it raised to 1s. 6d. All producers in other parts of India of articles of export would be similarly affected.
If the rupee is artificially forced up by the State, the shock to confidence will repel capital and injure credit. The first effect will show itself in a lessened demand for labour.
The effects of increased employment on the finances. The bearing of the measure on famines and scarcity. It will intensify the effects of both, and make them more costly to the State.
The measure has arrayed all classes against the Government, except its own servants and a very few of the merchants.
The effects of the measure on the tea-planters of India and Ceylon. It must heavily affect