i108 COFFEE CULTIVATION AND MANURING. 
Master :—Mamoties and scrapers, it seems you have 
a great hatred to those two implements. 
Tree :—Yes, I have the greatest hatred possible to 
them: they have been the death of a great number - 
of my relations, and they will be tke death of me if 
you don’t put a stop to them. 
Master :—Are you not aware that if the weeds 
were allowed to grow they would choke you alto- 
gether, and that would be werse than now. You 
have an existence, although you say it is a miserable 
one, but if I was to stop the scrapers you would 
soon be checked for the want of health. 
TREE :—If you make the drains and holes I have 
told you and feed me well, I think you might at 
the same time stop the scrapers, as there would not 
be so much surface to grow weeds on, Say the hole 
you make is two feet square and ought to be two 
feet deep, then the earth out of the hole covers a 
large space under each tree: altogether I think you 
might take the opportunity of taking the weeds out 
by hand the same as formerly, aud I would thrive 
better for it. 
Master :—I am afraid the land about you would 
not look so clean and tidy as it does when it is 
scraped once a month, and some people are very par- 
ticular about this, especially my visiting agent. 
TREE :—I take it you would rather have me in good 
health and able to work for you than to see me ina 
sickly state the same as I have been for the last six 
or seven years, and not able as you say to pay for 
being taken care of, and if you do everything I have 
told you to do, there will be very few weeds grow, 
my branches will be so full of leaves that only the 
rankest weed will grow under them, and if they are 
pulled up and laid near my roots I shall feed on them 
when they decay. 
Master :—Then you think if your advice is taken 
about the way your food is given to you and the 
mamoties and scrapers done away with as far as weed- 
ing is concerned, that those who look after you would 
get a larger profit from you then they have hitherto 
done. 
TREE :—Of that I am quite positive, and you would 
not hear so much about people spending all their own 
money taking care of me and then going to borrow 
money from others, only to keep them going for a 
year or two until they can boriow no more money, 
and then I am given over to the lender to pay bhim- 
self out of me, but if my system of giving me my 
food is not adopted, he will soon be as hard up as 
the person he took me over from. 
Masten :—I think your advice is good, but I can 
