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firm of paper manufacturers for the purpose of testing the value of 
the grass when supplied in considerable bulk. The results of such 
tests would be watched with considerable interest not only by 
Australians but by Europeans of many nationalities. 
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Planting in Uganda. *__The book is the outcome of the authors’ 
experience of plantation work in Uganda, and has been written 
for the guidance of planters who may now be settling in Uganda, 
and who are bound to suffer from lack of knowledge of the 
peculiar conditions under which plantations have to-be worked in 
that region 
The physical features of the country are described and photo- 
hs are reproduced showing the types of country tied for 
plantations. Other photographs show the crops in the various 
sta — of development, and the history of their fuisdiasce is 
giv 
Pais rubber and cocoa were first experimented on with plants 
received from Kew in 1901, and it is pleasing to learn that the 
whole of the cocoa now grown in Uganda has come from these 
young plants and their progeny. 
Chapter iii is devoted to “ Yields and Results,” and some of 
these are very striking. For example, coffee produces a “ maiden 
crop in 24 years from the ar of OWE, and a full crop is 
obtained at 3 years, which is years in advance of Ceylon, 
where 5 years are necessary babi a full yield is obtained. Two 
crops are borne annually, and the product is considered in London 
to be of “high grade,” and the prices obtained are said to be 
mes satisfactory. 
Advice is given as to the selection of suitable land for planting, 
tion by the rains, and the methods of clearing and planting in 
considerable detail, with numerous excellent illustrations of the 
a. followed. 
ost common weeds and their root-systems are — 
and illustrated, together with advice as to their eradicatio 
Other chapters are devoted to the erection of factories and 
machinery, collection and preparation of the crops, the direction of 
pe a cost of establishment of plantations and the preparation 
of 
nr i is also a chapter by Mr, G. Massee on diseases caused by 
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Lond ngmans, Green & Co Dublin: Th T ‘hot Press: 191 
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