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Dead bodies of animals, when buried under five 

 or six times their bulk of earth, and one part of 

 lime, will impregnate the surrounding earth, so as 

 to convert it into excellent manure after the lapse 

 of two or three months. This should be borne in 

 mind when deaths occur among the cattle. 



Coffee pulp is usually preserved in a pit below the 

 curing-houses during crop time, and put out with 

 the other manures subsequently. It is not, how- 

 ever, generally considered to be of much value by 

 itself. Possibly were it applied fresh it might yield 

 better results, especially as it contains large pro- 

 portions of sugar, mucilage, and other properties 

 useful as food for plants. Applied fresh it should 

 at least be as beneficial as green herbage, if not 

 more so, containing as it does but little woody 

 fibre, and being itself a product of the plant. 



Poonac oil-cake made from the cocoa-nut is a 

 valuable manure, containing oily or fatty fluid. Its 

 effect is to produce wood and foliage rather than 

 crop. Before application it should be moistened 

 and pulverized ; it may then be put in small, 

 trenches near the trees, care being taken to mix it 

 up carefully with the earth, handful by handful, 

 until the trench is filled. It is better adapted for 

 hot than cold climates, its oily parts being more 

 soluble in the former case. Ten cwts. of poonac to 

 the acre will allow of about a quart of the pounded 



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