xviii Contents. 



Splitting Dimensions Laying Cost Iron tile- 

 sheets Difficulties and drawbacks Method of 

 fastening Description of bungalow required 

 Flooring Asphalte Plaster Tiles Boards 

 Sawing timber Method of computing Coolie lines 

 Site Ventilation Sanitation Cowdung Coolie 

 gardens Size of sets Danger of fire . . .160 



CHAPTER XIX. 



The pulping-house The cherry loft The machine 

 platform The cisterns Water supply The pulper 

 The sieve The crusher Revolving buckets- 

 Butler's pulper Letter of a Ceylon planter, 1860 

 TheDiscpulper Setting thepulper Improvements 

 Iron barrels Walker's patent punching Gor- 

 don's breasts" 1 Letter from Mr. John Gordon 

 Stores Iron stores Objects required Crop diffi- 

 culties Mr. Clerihew's system Revolving fans 

 Hot-air apparatus Barbecues Macadam and 

 plaster Asphalte Plenty of drying-ground de- 

 sirable 1 84 



CHAPTER XX. 



Crop appearances The blossom The "set" Ripen- 

 ing Picking Importance of allowing coffee to ripen 

 fully Green berries Day's task Pro rata wages 

 System required Black berries Iron spouting 

 Laying spouting Immediate pulping necessary 

 Washing Drying Turning Peeling Sizing 

 Shipment 208 



CHAPTER XXI. 



"Topping"- Objects of Proper height In exposed 

 situations In sheltered situations The true crite- 

 rion Economy of space Argument against high 



