only £700 capital should start in building stone man- 

 sions, when a really serviceable house can be built 

 of sun dried bricks with a good thatched roof. No 

 other style of house is cooler than this through the 

 hoi season. It is inexpensive and requires Httle skill 

 to construct. Boys dig out earth, mix with water, 

 and puddle it well until it is of the consistency of 

 dough, when it should be built up between boards, 

 not more than two feet high at a time. You can go 

 right round the walls building them two feet high 

 each day, and then leave them to dry until the 

 following morning. The boards are shifted up day 

 by day as the height of the walls increases, until the 

 house is finished. A house of this description con- 

 taining two rooms each twelve feet square can easily 

 be built in a month at the cost of the labour and 

 door.-i and windows. 



The land being ready and the rains having it.ahting. 

 broken, I would start my drag harrow to work level- 

 ing and fining down the soil. Giving my harrow two 

 days start, I would get going with my planter sowing 

 tlie maize, which should be 40 inches between rows 

 and 12 inches in the row the first year. When the 

 maize was high enough, which should be in about 

 four weeks from planting, I would at once start my 

 scufYlers and keep them working until the maize was 

 too high, which would be in about ten to twelve 

 weeks after planting. 



Now I nuist build my maize crib. In my estimate maize crib. 

 of costs I have reckoned ;i^5o for the cost of this, but 

 if I had serviceable timber on the farm and were at 

 all handy I could construct it for half that sum. 

 Allowing £2S for sawn timber for flooring and wire 

 netting, a double crib, each bay 60 feet long by 9 feet 

 wide by Q feet high, will hold 1,400 bags of maize on 

 the cob. This should be ample for my requirements. 

 The first year I reckon on getting only 800 sacks, but 

 each subsequent year I should get from 1,000 to 1,200, 

 according to the season and my selection of seed. 

 Having harvested and sold the maize, my first year 

 with its troubles and worries is over. 



The second year I woiild stake out 20 acres to be planting dp 

 planted with coffee, breaking up an additional 20 thk coffee. 

 acres for maize, so as to maintain 100 acres continu- 



