COFFEE PLANTERS’ MANUAL. 21 
And there will be no difficulty in getting these built 
of the kind you require, either on contract or by daily 
labor. 
Having now got a Bungalow for yourself and Lines 
for your laborers, you have leisure to look about you 
to see what is the next necessary operation that 
should engage your attention. Roaps will strike you 
as very necessary for the convenient working of the 
plantation. Some people make these before planting 
at all, and doubtless where labor is in sufficient abund- 
ance to admit of this being done without your being 
thrown behind with the more important work of 
planting, or if you are sure to be able to complete 
your planting within proper season, after having done 
your roading, by all means road first. It will save 
you cutting a number of holes, which from the course 
of your road you have afterwards to destroy, as well 
as save many plants from being buried during the 
progress of the road, But this is not often possible. 
Seldom has a planter at the outset the command of 
labor sufficient to do such works as roading and drain- 
ing, but when he has it is well to do both. When 
pressed however for time to do his planting before 
the season passes away, we generally find the planter 
using the energy of every man he has to plant up 
his Jand, leaving every other work to stand over till 
that be accomplished. In the present case we have 
finished our planting, and now for the Road. Begin 
at the bottom of the hill, set your level to a gradi- 
ent of 1 foot in 10, and follow. it up till you reach. 
the top of the clearing. This will be a very good 
working gradient, and will suit the lay of most lands. 
It will also divide your estate sufficiently, and make 
working easy. Should you intend it ultimately to be 
a cart road, then let 1 in 20 be your gradient. 
Drive in pegs as you move on the level, and cut 
from the lower side, to the breadth you intend your. 
road to be. For ordinary estate purposes, short of 
cartage, four feet in the solid will be a very good 
size, even for tavalam cattle, or pack bullocks. But 
if you want to be very economical at the commence- 
ment, a two feet road can be made to answer your 
requirements for a good while, widening it as you 
find necessary or expedient. 
Your work is now so far advanced that you will 
be able to take it easy for a while. You may sit 
down and see your plants grow. The only work you 
will have for some two years from this time will be 
to look after your WEEDERS, and see that they keep 
the estate clean. This you will find necessary whe- 
ther you weed by daily labor or by contract, and it 
is by no means the least important part of the plant- 
