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tion can be carried out without much labour and 

 the destruction of many trees. 



From the main road other roads should run at 

 right angles, and again from these others also at 

 right angles, so as to cut up the area into square 

 blocks. The secondary and other roads may be 

 made narrower than the main one; 18 feet will be 

 ample width. The blocks should not be less than 

 20 or 30 acres each in extent, or the proportion of 

 roads to the planted area will be excessive. 



It will be obvious that if this plan of laying out 

 the estate be adopted on more or less hilly land, 

 many of the roads will run up and down, with 

 gradients inconvenient for the use of carts. As 

 most estates in Uganda are too irregular in sur- 

 face, it is necessary therefore to adopt a different 

 arrangement. This is to make roads wherever 

 they are required, and to run them according to 

 the contour of the hills. 



In opening up an estate in this way, it is 

 necessary first of all to decide on the site for the 

 factory. All roads should then run either to this 

 point, or into other roads which reach it, and as 

 the factory site must always be near permanent 

 water, and therefore near the lowest part of the 



