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due to the inability of the tree to perfect all the 

 pods it bears : a portion of the work had to be 

 shirked that the remainder might be well done. 



Coffee. In Uganda a Coffee plantation yields 

 two main crops each year. There are, however, 

 intermediate flowerings, so that on an estate some 

 picking is in progress every month from February 

 to November. The largest flowering takes place 

 in February, and the resultant crop commences to 

 ripen in September. The second flowering takes 

 place in August, and the crop commences to ripen 

 in March. The period between flowering and 

 ripening is about eight months. It will be noticed 

 that in both seasons the flowering takes place just 

 before the ripening of the previous crop, and just 

 before the rainy season. 



The trees at the time of flowering produce 

 blossoms on all the mature growth, and therefore 

 the amount of each crop depends upon the amount 

 of growth made by the tree since the previous 

 flowering. The heavier the crop carried by a tree 

 in any season the less will be its growth, and the 

 smaller its crop the following season; but in the 

 third season the crop will again be large. There 

 is thus one big crop and one small one each year. 



