126 Coffee Planting. 



The felled land should be burned off early in 

 February, and cleared up AT ONCE ; it should then 

 be immediately lined, the roads being next traced 

 out. Then comes the pitting, which may be con- 

 tinued till the middle of June, by which time the 

 rainy season, and consequently the only safe time 

 of year for putting in the plants, will have arrived. 

 This wet season extends more or less through June, 

 July, and August. The land must now be care- 

 fully weeded, once every month, every weed being 

 rooted out, by hand if possible, carried away and 

 burnt. 



After the first weeding (or, if this can be done by 

 women and children, while it is going on) the able- 

 bodied men may be employed in opening up the 

 roads that had previously been marked out, and in 

 making drains to prevent "wash." 



About six weeks or two months after the plants 

 have been put in they should be carefully gone 

 over and examined, all that have evidently died or 

 are not looking well being taken out, and their 

 places being supplied with good healthy plants or 

 stumps. Of course, however, this will only be done 

 provided suitable planting weather continues. 



Having got thus far without special instructions 

 being laid down for road-making, the subject might 

 seem to have been overlooked. The seeming over- 



