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7. What is in the first pu required is, that the intending or 
actual farmer shall have some object lesson for guiding his 
operation, and the opportunity of knowing the reason for adopting 
any specific method in farming. A few minutes of practical 
directions from Mr. W. Crowther, the Curator ot the Government 
Botanical Station at the Gold Coast Colony, on his recent visit to 
Sierra Leone, enabled me better than months of previous reading 
to understand and apply the principles of pruning the coffee tree. 
8. Public notice given of the time for Da apas certain 
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these ai . Tt waa ald be a par t of the duty of the curator 
transplanting, pruning, mulching and shading of tree , the 
harvesting and curing of produce, and even the rotation ofc crops, 
may, to a great extent, be learnt by observation. At present, very 
few of d so-called farmer rs have any intelligent idea of prones 
so essential to the cultivation of their produce. Hen 
independently of the preparation of crops for market, our pat 
ucts are generally inferior in quality to those of foreign 
grow ‘th, 
9. The use of implements other than the Ec raet hoe and 
the cutlass, which constitute the whole o e farmer’s tools in 
Sierra Leone, may be encouraged and taught ds proper practice at 
the botanical station 
ext defect in our agricultural system is ve generally 
bad or indifferent preparation o of produce por the arkea 
ses even as in that ginger, wherein nat see o favour 
us with a good article, the preparation largely phaea the value 
in foreign markets. 
ll. The fear is naturally to be — that, with the 
extended cultivation which is going on in the colony of ene 
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2. The process in use for cleaning vdd in the colony is He 
Dude one of drying the berry and afte wards pounding it in 
r and winnowing by hand with a fin; ides the 
detestei of the quality of the bean rede m drying the 
berry, the pounding breaks the bean an secures 
evenness in the colour which complete removal lof is sog irn kis 
will effect. Hence a sample of perfectly good coffee of the 
3. Then the value of the sample also depends the 
uniformity in the size of the beans. "The Liberian tioifeo, whioh 
is the qu ality now being largely grown in ges eone, varies 
very much in size. Our farmers do not, as a rule, know that it 
will be an advantage tu them to secure the anita ormity I refer to. 
Even if they do, they will require some other process than 
picking to secure it, otherwise the labour will be too great sad 
prove unremuner rative 
14. In two ways assistance uz great value dud: bo given by the 
government. For many years to come coffee have already 
observed, will be the auod uc. that will soaring serious attention 
