FOREST CLEARINGS. 77 



reduced, and for heavy forest in the higher districts 

 from Rs. 18 to 20 is now given, and in the low 

 country from Rs. 12 to 15, while at the same time 

 the men provide their own axes. Those figures 

 will be a fair average for other Coffee countries, 

 and include felling, lopping, burning and clearing-up, 

 so as to leave the land ready for planting. Some- 

 times the planter's own men undertake the latter 

 tasks, and then of course the estimate is reduced. 



The Englishman should be careful to have a 

 clear agreement on all contract work, and not to 

 over-advance the men. 



