CONTENTS. XI 



(c) English Farming. 



Tracts and soils best suited. — Expenses. — Seasons for cultivating. — Field crops. — 

 Degeneration of seed.— Draining, terracing, and ploughing. — Cultivation. — 

 Manuring — lime — potash. — llorticulture. — Garden crops. — Fruit trees. — 

 Market prices. — Live-stock — cattle — sheep — pigs — horses — poultry.- — 

 Diseases. — Treatment — murrain — foot-and-mouth disease. — General remarks. 



Pages 471—481 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



COFFEE CULTIVATION. 

 Inteoduction. 



Introduction of the coffee plant into South India. — Abb^ Dubois. — Coffee on the 

 Baba Booden Hills — iu the Waindd — on the Nilagiris. — Major Ouohterlony's 

 note. — The Ouchterlony Valley. — Area of coffee land under cultivation in the 

 district. — Statistics of coffee exports. — Estimation of cost of cultivation and 

 profits. — Books on coffee cultivation Pages 482— 487 



MONOGRAPH ON THE CULTIVATION OF COFFEE. 

 {By A. H. Steedman, Esq., Balcarres Estate, Wain&d.) 



Selection of land — elevation — opening out land — nurseries — shade — felling — 

 burning — road tracing — lining — pitting — planting— ■weeding — draining — hand- 

 ling and pruning. — Manuring — composts — poudrette — fish-manure — bones — 

 blood and slaughter-house refuse — guano — superphosphate of lime. — Irriga- 

 tion. — Buildings — bungalov? — cooly lines — pulper-house and store — barbacues 

 and drying tables — cattle sheds. — Machinery — sprouting — pulper. — Crops — 

 picking and curing. — Enemies of the coffee plant— bug — the borer — the coffee 

 rat — leaf rot — leaf disease — its remedies ... Pages 487 — 509 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



TEA. 

 Introduction. 

 Plant introduced, 1835.— Mr. Mann's efforts, 1854.— Dr. Cleghom's reports.— 

 Government policy. — Mr. Rae opens an estate near Ootacamand. — Government 

 introduces tea-makers and forms a nursery at Doddabetta. — Agi-icultural Exhibi- 

 tion and its results as regards tea. — Area under tea. — Exports and imports. 



Pages 510—514 



MONOGRAPH ON THE CULTIVATION OF TEA ON THE 

 NILAGIRIS. 



(By E. J. C. Brace, Esq., of K6tagiri.) 



Suitability of climate and soils of the district for grovpth of tea. — Varieties of the 

 plant — the China — the indigenous — the hybrid. — Selection of seed. — Selection of 

 land — aspect and soil — lay of land — clearing — shelter — terracing — lining — 

 pitting— planting. — Nurseries — propagation by cuttings — cultivation and 

 prnniog — yield.— Manuring— manures and their application. — Weeding.— 

 Fodder crops. — Manufacture — difference between black and green teas. — 

 Manufacture of black tea — withering— rolling— second rolling — rolling by 

 machinei-y— colouring — drying appliances— drying off— storing — tasting teas. — 

 Manufacture of green tea— sifting— packing Pages 515— 547 



