2l8 COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



Total Rs. 

 Brought forward 8,570 



see no valid reason why these buildings 

 should not be decent and efficient from 

 the first. Ten-roomed lines stone pillar 

 and shingle each room 12 by 10, and 

 well made, as previously pointed out, can 

 be put up for about Rs. 550 to 700, say... 600 



A bungalow for the Englishman is often not 

 built until the third year, the estate in 

 the meantime being managed through a 

 neighbouring planter, who rides over to 

 superintend. But suppose the owner lives 

 on the land from the first, then a very 

 convenient, if unpretentious, house on 

 stone foundations with shingle roof can 

 be built for Rs. 1,000. Ourselves we 

 should be inclined to add another thousand 

 rupees, and make it very complete, but we 

 accept the lower estimate ... ... ... 1,000 



Roads deserve the earliest consideration we can 

 give them. When made at once, although 

 it may be not to their full width, they 

 will save 5 per cent, on all subsequent 

 operations. They are necessary but ex- 

 pensive luxuries, costing little under Rs. 140 

 per mile, and if miles per hundred acres 

 opened is not too much 210 



Draining has to be seen to, and the sooner 

 the better. Forty acres of the steepest 

 land i.e. t that in most danger of loosing 

 its soil at Rs. 7 per acre, will be 280 



Carried forward Rs. 10,660 



