102 PLANTING IN UGANDA 



thumb. If ripe the beans will easily shoot out of 

 the jacket, and be quite free of it. If unripe it 

 will take considerable pressure to separate them 

 from the jacket. If the trees are cleanly picked 

 it will be found sufficient to go over the fields at 

 intervals of six days. 



A considerable amount of supervision is 

 necessary to prevent waste in picking. The men 

 will, of course, do the work by task, but it will be 

 necessary to secure that it is properly done. Each 

 picker should take a row of trees, except in the 

 case in which small children are employed, when 

 it is advisable to put a child and an adult together, 

 as the children cannot reach the upper branches of 

 the trees. The pickers should entirely finish each 

 tree before leaving it for the next, and a rule 

 should be made that when a tree has been picked 

 all dropped berries must be picked up from the 

 ground underneath. A few berries always drop 

 off, and more are dropped by the pickers. Con- 

 siderable waste takes place if these are not 

 gathered up. 



We have found it pay to give the men demon- 

 strations in the best way of picking. Although 

 the work is performed as task work, it is in the 



