CONTRACTS. 
Aut contracts should be given out either to 
Sirdars on the garden or contractors known to 
your Sirdars, or to men for whom a Sirdar will be 
responsible. Give good advances and pay up as 
soon after the contracts are executed as you can, as 
a man will charge hetivier rates if he has to get 
advances from money-lenders and the garden. 
will have to pay the interest as he will put it 
on in some way; in some cases contracts are not 
paid until the year after they are finished, 
The only consequence of this is that the manager 
has to pay higher rates and has more trouble 
than any one round him. And the only advant- 
age, that he can keep over the account until 
the following year and make the profit look better 
than it really is. 
CHAPTER XI. 
BUILDING. 
Trn building that a planter has to do is in 
