OETTING TO Having ordered my ploughs and other iniple- 



WORK. nienls, I would enter into active possession of my 



farm with my tools and a tent hired until such time 

 as my house would be ready. My first action thea 

 would be to locate a site for boys' huts and the 

 cattle boma. Whilst 20 boys were building the huts 

 and boma 1 would select the area to first be put 

 under the plough, and flag out roo acres. The huts- 

 and boma finished, I would start the boys clearing 

 bush and taking out stumps, and while they were so 

 engaged would, during a visit round the district, 

 arrange for transport for my ploughs, etc., and buy 

 24 serviceable oxen, so that when my ploughs arrived 



1 would be ready to start. The boys having cleared 

 some of the area to be cultivated, and my ploughs and 

 oxen having arrived, I would at once start in plough-^ 

 ing, discing down with the harrow what had already 

 been ploughed, so soon as the plough overtook the 

 boys clearing, and so on until my hundred acres were 

 ready. With 24 oxen I could work every day, chang- 

 ing my oxen so that eight were always resting. 

 Working in this way, my plough should do about 



2 J 'J acres per day breaking land and about ■2->4 when, 

 cross ploughing. 



LABOUR ill my estimate of costs appended I have allowed 



REQUIRED. for 20 boys working continuously for the first twelve- 



months, but this would not really be necessary, as- 

 when the clearing and stumping had been finished, 

 half that number might be dispensed with until the 

 mai/.c was ready to harvest. 



THE COFFEE. 1'he loo acres ploughed, cross ploughed and disc- 



NURSERY. harrowed so as to secure a fine tilth, I would look out 



a site for my nursery, get it dug over, and plant my 

 coffee seed, about thirty pounds of seed at a cost of 

 about six shillings. Coffee beds should not be more 

 than four feet wide, with an alley way between each 

 to make w^eeding and watering easy. They should 

 of course be located near the river, and be easy to- 

 get at. 



A SERVICE- When the nursery was finished, I would take my 



ABLE HOUSE lo boys to where I had selected a site for my house, 



AT LOW COST, and on this question of a house I would like to make 



it clear that I do not consider that a man who has. 



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