19 
ies ee . nad wT 
Number Bag applied to Appearance of berries 
sori- neta 
elo Ta flowers. when plucked. : Berets a“ 
X-B.. | Whole time .. | 11 berries, mostly plump and | A dapitoute ‘o tL By ‘a 
: green and of fair ave-| mosquito-net bag: being 
rage appearance incom-| applied all thetime. the 
parison with others on| flowers were ort. oad 
the same bush; of.the ae 
11, 3 are reddened and |. ‘ et ic 
of these 2 look poor. hes 
11. The berries, both of the branches under experiment, and! of, 
their controls, were sent to Mr. Anstead, the Planting Expert; who in: 
his letter No. 94, dated 29th January 1914, wrote to me. ‘regarding 
them— 8 od qeieaia 
‘T have to inform you that I have finished the eartn of ' the’ 
coffee berries. you sert me from the Shevaroys. The berries: were 
picked far too green to cure well and | think that nothing canbe’ 
judged from them as to quality. eel 
“‘T send you the resulting berries under separate cover aindh you’ 
will see that the result is poor. When all are so bad it is impossible 
to grade them at all, beyond saying that I-A control, II-B and: ives 
are in best and perhaps III-B and VI-B the worst.” 0 +o 
With regard to Mr. Anstead’s comment that the, ‘berries’ 
** were D aearal far too green to cure well,”’ I quite agree that this was 
so, but this seemed to be the best thing to do. To have remained 
until all were ripe, it would have been necessary to have prolonged my’ 
stay in Yercaud at least another three weeks, visiting the bushes daily’ 
or even more often and risking loss of many of the berries owing. to’ 
their dropping prematurely or being detached by pickers or birds or 
other animals. If I had bags with me, I might have reapplied them 
to the branches to catch the berries as they dropped, but the’ ‘chances: 
would have been very large that the bags would have’ ‘disapr eared: in’ 
toto with the pickers working in the coffee all around. I therefore’ 
considered that the best thing to do was to pluck the berries as they 
were, to get comparative results regarding the number and size of the 
berries. 
18. The Bababudin experiments. —These were carried out by ‘Mr. 
N. G. B. Kirwan and are detailed in his letter of 16th J ea AVES 0 
the Planting Expert. A copy of this is given below :— eh ile 
pee ac 
“ ARaptpacooL Hsta1z, 
_ Chikmaglur P.O., 16th Pray 1914. 
“ R. D, Ansteap, Esq., oe ore vy 
Planting Expert, Bangalore. 
“ Dear Sir, be ats 
Bees and coffee fertilization. 
“Under separate cover I send the samples of coffee obtained from 
the above experiment. I regret to say No. 5-B is missing, ¢ as on pick- 
ing the crop [ found this label was missing. 
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