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17. But this befouling of the river is not an uns 

 able necessity of coffee growing. Mr. J. Russel, hi 

 a planter on this Ghat, assures me that coffee con 

 quite as well pulped with less water, and with the ad 

 age to the coffee planter, as well as to the river, th 

 the refuse could be retained on the estate as a val 

 vegetable manure. It would seem that the water re 

 ed for the pulper itself is much less than is ordii 

 used, that the use of a crusher before putting the i 

 through the pulper would make it feasible to use 

 less water, and that if the pulp hole were built 

 enough (say 20 feet square by 4 feet deep), and 

 water-tight, and all clean water taken by a different o 

 direct to the river, the whole of the matter which 

 flows to the river might be retained in the pulp he 

 valuable manure for the estate, and the advantage 

 retention would it seems quite overbalance the i 

 extra expenditure resulting from employing laboi 

 carry, instead of water to float, the berry and the 

 A paper which he has kindly supplied on the subjf 

 enclosed. (Appendix D.) 



Pry in Rivers. 



20. But whether the poisoning of the waters, c 

 capture of the fry, be the more fertile source of n 

 the rivers it is hard to decide. Dr. Day and I ha 1 

 ready urged that too much importance can scarce 

 attached to the suppression of the practice of destr 

 fry wholesale. It has not been possible to obtai 



