Cultivation. 
followed by hand weeding. Ferns give a lot of 
trouble, as the coolies break the leaves off, leaving 
the roots in the bushes, and although they may 
place a pile of ferns at the end of each days work, 
for you to see, still they leave two-thirds of the 
roots in the bushes. It is just, as well, where 
ferns show very thickly to give some boys small 
forks to take out a’ fixed number of ferns every 
day, these are counted up in the evening and 
looked at to see that the root has been properly 
extracted. There are several sorts of creeping 
jungle which climb all over the bushes these 
ought all to be pulled out by the ruots. Bamboo 
soil or soil from marshy places makes very good 
manure and gives good results But cow-dung is 
not good, it always seems to bring blight. Some- 
times after having it put down at great expense the 
only result has been swarms of small red beetles 
and white grubs. The beetles eat off all the shoots 
and the grubs kill all the seedlings that had 
been filled in. Horse-dung is very little good 
and if a place is once manured it has to be kept 
up. A piece of tea under some stables, used to 
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