I4O COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



ably careless and objectionable in domestic arrange- 

 ments. Their huts and the surrounding paths and 

 Coffee will get into a hopelessly filthy condition 

 unless sanitary measures are introduced early. It is 

 a good plan to employ a couple of low-caste coolies 

 on special wages to go round daily with mammoties 

 and attend to these matters. 



When the Coffee is planted, and before the 

 trees come into bearing, it is time to prepare and 

 consider the plans of permanent and substantial 

 buildings. These may be either of 



(1) Stone and mortar, 



(2) Bricks and mortar, 



(3) Bricks or stone with mud, 



(4) Wattle and daub, 



(5) Laterite and mortar, 



(6) Wooden boards or logs. 



Iron-roofed houses might, perhaps, be included, 

 but they have many and manifold objections, and 

 cannot be recommended except for stores and 

 pulping sheds. One planter declares in favour of 

 sun-dried bricks with good mortar. " They give 

 sufficient strength, are easily transported and used, 

 and above all are cheap, being made almost any- 

 where. A common mason will lay from 400 to 500 

 large-sized (say 7 Ib.) bricks per day ; eight of these 

 will just make up an ordinary coolie load, and their 

 dimensions will probably be about loj by 5J by 3^ 



