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Planting begins with the rains, subsequent 

 plantings being made every week or ten days as 

 the rain suits. It should be timed according to 

 latitude, so as not to have the leaves ready for 

 plucking before the dry weather sets in ; a period 

 of four months being allowed, a little longer, 

 perhaps, in the southern and less forcing lati- 

 tudes. The most favoured size for flue houses 

 is 16 or 20 feet square with a 12-inch flue, 

 three or four such houses being sufficient for a 

 plantation of 60 acres. A 20-foot house will 

 carry a charge drying out to from three-quarters 

 to one and a-half ton of leaf in six or seven days ; 

 the temperature being gradually raised from 90° 

 to 170° F. 



Planters in the Province will do well to take 

 note of a serious difficulty which tobacco-growers 

 in Nyassaland are encountering — namely, the 

 scarcity of timber — and should provide for a 

 sufficiency of fuel, either by preserving native 

 forest or by planting trees. The question is often 

 asked : What sort of trees are best to plant for 

 fuel or for wind-brakes for Ceara rubber ? Euca- 

 lyptus is the most rapidly growing tree in the 

 country, E. citrioclra being one of the straightest 

 and best suited for the tropics. Grevillea robusta, 

 ErytJirina, Melia, Pithecolobium, cashew-nut, and 

 Ceara rubber all grow quickly, and there is 



