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CHAPTER X. 



PAGE 



Lining out Objects Method The rope The base 

 line Lining square West Indies and Java Dis- 

 tance apart Hexagons Quincunx formation 

 Pitting Depth desirable The day's task Work 

 to be completed before wet season Filling in 

 Women and boys 106 



CHAPTER XL 



Planting Stumps Trimming the roots Nursery plants 

 " With ball "Continuance of rain needful Old 

 plants Puddling- Disposition of roots Method of 

 planting Care preferable to mere expedition With 

 the crowbar The diamond dibber Dibbling Slit 

 planting 114 



CHAPTER XII. 



Road-making Recapitulation of works discussed Time 

 for road-making Advantages of good roads 

 Cart-road Subordinate roads Frequency required 

 The road tracer Marking out The advance 

 gang Cost of estate roads Blasting rocks Me- 

 thod described 125 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Draining Necessity for Gradient of the trenches 

 Frequency of occurrence Mr. Wall's opinion 

 Draining swamps Mauritius grass . . . . 1^4 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Weeding Weeds defined Effects of Methods of re- 

 moval Beginning early Rapid multiplication 

 " White weed "Hay Weeding by hand With 

 the scraper With the mammotie Burying in 

 Weeding contracts Rates 138 



