COFFEE PLANTERS’ MANUAL. 27 
bungalow, how the sun strikes on the spot on which 
you would build your store, and how both sites are 
off for a constant supply of water. Springs often dry 
up. And various other matters which you will learn 
by experience will be useful and available before you 
come to require your permanent buildings. Neither is 
it economical, because the interest on the outlay on 
permanent buildings before they are necessary will 
exceed the cost of the temporary erections, thus :— 
Supposing you estimate that the permanent build- 
ing you intend to erect on the estate will involve 
an expenditure of £1,200, a modest enough amount 
for an estate which is to be opened up to 200 acres. 
I will guarantee to put up all needful buildings, com- 
fortable enough and sufficient to last for the first 
four years, for £200. You will thus save interest on 
£1,060 for that period, which at 10 per cent will be 
£400. So that you will be a gainer of £200 after 
Paying the cost of your temporary erections. Even 
Supposing that the store is only built at the end of 
the second year, and that it costs £500, althouch on 
it you only save two years’ interest, you will still 
,be a gainer of £100 by having adopted the principle 
of temporary buildings at the outset. But temporary 
buildings of the kind above contemplated would last 
five years instead of four, so that there would still 
be a profit of £200 to £300 by the transaction. 
WEEDING is the planter’s bane. It is his cease- 
less, watchful, constant care, his never-ending toil. 
It begins immediately his clearing is burned off; and 
he gets no rest from the constant weed, weed, weed, 
as long as it is an estate; for weeds will grow, and 
quickly too, in such a forcing climate as ours. On 
a field of coffee every green thing is a weed, except 
the coffee tree. All feed on the same land, are nour- 
ished by the same atmosphere, and exhaust those pro- 
perties of the soil which combine to produce the 
coffee bean. Some weeds in fact—such as the Hu- 
lantala, one of the most generative as well as de- 
structive of weeds—contain all the elements required 
by the coffee tree and in nearly the same proportions. 
Now it is very evident that if they extract from the 
soil those substances necessary for the formation of 
ccftee, the coffee tree must lose what the weeds gain. 
It is true all weedsare not equally exhaustive. But 
all take nourishment from the soil—whether it be a 
flowering weed whose seed in millions overspread the 
ground, reproducing its kind till the field is covered 
with a greensward like a carpet, or whether it bea 
root-spreading weed, a jungle plant, or grass, all are 
weeds, and ought to be eradicated. All are tict, how- 
ever, equally difficult to be got rid of. If you com- 
