figure which can be said to be fair. Personally, I 

 would say that an average of J^ ft) per tree is as 

 much as can be relied upon. 



Pests are becoming increasingly abundant. Our pests. 

 most serious pests are : Leaf-diseases, Berry-blotch 

 Bean-fungus, Variegated-bug, Stem-borer, Berry- 

 borer and a leaf-eating caterpillar. Any of these 

 pests may become epidemic. Spraying is in some 

 cases effective, but as our scientific experts tell us 

 spraying should be used to anticipate attacks, and 

 be considered as a preventive, and as we never 

 know which pest is coming, one can hardly provide 

 against all of them by spraying. Spraying measures 

 have not yet been proved to give any real security 

 nor are they likely to against so many different pests, 

 until the one cure for every ill is discovered. 



A good deal has been said about the pruning of \alue OF 

 coffee out here. The subject, of course, did not arise i-runing. 

 unlil our crops began to decrease. Yet, in our fat 

 years, \vc did not get our crops by pruning. The 

 real truth of the matter is probably that when our 

 trees were giving us regular crops of coffee they did 

 not run to the thick growth that they do now, when 

 they bare sparsely. In other words, small cropping 

 is probably the cause and not the effect. I do not for 

 a moment hold that our trees could not be improved 

 by pruning, but if one considers that our reduced 

 cro])s are due to pests, which certainly will not dis- 

 criminate between the pruned and the unpruned, one 

 has to decide whether an extra crop to cover the 

 extra expense is reasonably probable. A great deal 

 of pruning has been done with such varied results 

 that cases can be cited for and against. The general 

 question is decidedly " not proven." 



In " Planting in Uganda," 25/- is given as the marketed 

 cost of putting I cwt. of coffee on the market. This cost of 

 was, of course, the rate when our crops were 2^ lbs. coffee. 

 per tree. With a yield of only /4^ per tree the cost 

 will l)e about 40/- per cwt. With present high 

 freights it wall be probably 43/-. This figure covers 

 upkeep, collection, preparation, freight, etc. The 

 variable figures, which depend intimately upon the 

 crop, are upkeep, collection and preparation. 



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