TOO Coffee Planting. 



larger ones ; their little bright axes flung back far 

 over their shoulders, and then dug deep into the 

 heart of the tree. I observed that in no instance 

 were the trees cut through, but each one was left 

 with just sufficient of the heart to keep it standing. 

 On looking round I saw that there were hundreds 

 of them treated similarly ; my planter-friend assured 

 me that if the trees were to be at once cut down, a 

 few at a time, they would so encumber the ground 

 as to render it impossible for the workmen to have 

 access to the adjoining trees. They (the workmen) 

 were, however, finally ranged in order; all being 

 ready, forty bright axes gleamed high in the air, 

 and then sank deeply into as many previously all 

 but severed trees, which at once yielding to the 

 sharp steel groaned heavily, then slowly bent for- 

 ward until they fell with a stunning crash on the 

 trees below them ; these having also been cut 

 through previously, offered no resistance, but 

 followed the example of their upper neighbours, 

 and fell booming on those beneath. In this way 

 the work of destruction went on from row to row ; 

 only those fell, however, which had been cut, and 

 of these not one was left standing." 



Felling bamboos is a more laborious and tedious 

 operation. The bamboo, with which the whole of 

 the interior of the Wynaad, Coorg, and Mysore 

 districts abound, is the most useful of plants. It 



