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Such yields must be considered satisfactory, and 

 they will make Cocoa plantations as remunerative 

 in our country as they have proved elsewhere. 



Coffee. In 1905 a Coffee plantation in the 

 Botanic Gardens at Entebbe produced its first two 

 crops. One ripened in May and the other in 

 October. The yield of Coffee in parchment for the 

 year was 2 Ibs. per tree. 



At Kivuvu during 1912 39,940 trees were 

 cropped. These produced 73,134 Ibs. of parch- 

 ment Coffee. Of the trees, 26,818 gave a full crop, 

 averaging about 2J Ibs. per tree, and 13,122 gave 

 the " maiden," or half crop, which averaged about 

 f Ib. per tree. Eesults averaged over such a large 

 number of trees are conclusive and may therefore 

 be safely taken as the basis for estimates for a 

 plantation of any size. The figures confirmed 

 similar ones obtained during the previous year on 

 a smaller area. They indicate a yield of 2^ Ibs. 

 Coffee in parchment, which will give exactly 2 Ibs. 

 of cleaned, saleable Coffee. In the palmy days of 

 Coffee in Ceylon we read of a yield of 1 Ib. per tree 

 being considered good. Our yields, therefore, are 

 calculated to make us sanguine as to the prospects 

 of the Coffee growing industry in Uganda. 



