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106 COFFEE IN HiGH DISTRICTS. 
ive fashion, staked when young if necessary. It 
forms an excellent hedge, and you have the advant- 
age of losing no ground, as would be the case if you 
planted any other description of tree for shelter. 
Manure the hedge well, and it will afford ample pro- 
tection to several rows of coffee. Has ‘*Orum”’ tried 
‘‘liquid manure” for coffee. Of all the manures 1 
have tried, and I commenced manuring 25 years ago, 
liquid manure surpasses everything. It must be ap- 
plied well diluted, by allowing a stream of water to 
run into the tanks, and directing it im little chan- 
nels or rills to catch coffee trees in turn, scraping 
away the earth near the stem to form a hollow to 
receive and retrin the liquid. One or two coolies can 
go over a considerable quantity of ground in a day ; 
it. must however be repeated three or four times a 
year, but well repays the small outlay incurred. Cattle 
sheds must, of course, be constructed with tanks to 
receive the lquid manure in such situations as to 
render this operation a simple one, the great desi- 
deratum being water handy, and slopes of coffee be- 
low the sheds conveniently situated for irrigation. I 
have seen very shuck coffee indeed rapidly restored 
under this method,—Yours faithfully, 
R. J. Corser, 
A CONVERSATION WITH A SHUCK COFFEE 
TREE: THE COFFEE TREE ITS OWN ADVO- 
CATE. 
(From a Planter of over Thirty Years’ Experience.) 
Master :—I should very much like to know what. 
you have to say for yourself why you should not be 
abandoned. You have not given sufficient fruit for 
the last 6 or 7 years to pay for the looking after 
you and keeping you clean, and I am every year 
running more and more into debt, under the impres- 
sion that you are going to give me something in 
return, but you give searcely anything, and I shall 
be obliged to give up taking care of you soon. 
TREE :—I am very sorry for you, and would be very 
glad to give you plenty of fruit, but you put it out 
of my power to doso. Hvery month you send mamoties, 
and scrapers, and you cut off the greater part of my 
feeding roots, and I have been every month for the 
last six or seven years trying to make new roots to 
feed myself with, but before they are of much use 
to me, your people come again and cut them off, 
which has had the effect of keeping me in a state of 
continual starvation. 
