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COFFEE I ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



them up country have been greatly improved by 

 new lines of railway, new roads, bridges, &c. 



Planters also at the present time make (with 

 good reason) their pits for bulky manures between 

 the Coffee trees larger than formerly, and artificial 

 manures are not put into small holes in their 

 natural strength to scorch all rootlets they come 

 in contact with, but are mixed largely with jungle 

 soil and spread round the stems in shallow "pans " 

 i.e., light depressions in the ground afterwards 

 covered over with a little earth. 



In applying farmyard manure, care should be 

 taken to see it is covered up completely in the holes 

 about the trees. The liquid portion is rather more 

 valuable than the bulky, as the following analysis 

 shows. 



The approximate composition of urine and 

 dung of well-fed cattle is as follows : 



Water 



(a) Organic matter, urea, uric acid, &c. 



(b) Inorganic matter, salts of potash, 



soda, &c 



Total 



(a) Containing nitrogen capable of yield- 



ing ammonia 



(b) Containing phosphoric acid 



Urine. 



920 

 60 



20 



I,OOO 



Q.OO 

 .70 



Dung. 



840 

 135 



25 



1,000 



3.60 

 2.25 



