COFFEE CULTIVATION AND MANURING. 139 
drains, and a coely after some experienee (he need 
be a 10d one) will cut about 14 yard a day; 133 
days at 10d—£5 10s 10d. Filling in will cost collect- 
ing stones or timber 13d, preparing avd putting in 
isd, claying and filling in 14d=43d per yard filling 
in, or per acre £3 15s, and then 24 yards of leader 
drain will cost 1/6 per yard, £1 16s in all, £11 Is 
10d per acre. You may say you can do it fer less 
and can dispense with filling in, but unless the drain 
is k-pt preperly clear it will net act, and if it be 
possible to keep a furrow drain elear without cover- 
ing it it will be at a eost which would soon cover 
the expense of filling in high as it is. If draining 
, could be done properly at a fourth of the money, 
then ye men of Dimbula and Dikeya do it, but I de 
mot suppose yor are prepared to spend from £13 to 
£14 per acre on it. Cutting drains three feet deep, 
aad le. ving them open, will be so much money thrown 
away, except fer sirface. Instead, as transport from 
Colombo gets cheaper, send fer qaicklime: lime mind 
you, net chunim, which is little else but magnesia, 
vood medicine some times, but indifferent manure, 
and apply the lime immediately after it is slacked, 
——see they do not do that for you in Colombo,—apply 
it to the surface and to the tree. Liquid manure, 
that’s the thing when cart roads are at reasonable 
distances apart, and a small eart road will be suffi- 
cient fer the purpose. It can be applied at half the 
cost of cattle manure and with greater benefit. So 
eut Cart. roads, build st eds, buy eattle, and plant 
grass. Build a tank to held 5,0UU gastus~ ~- 
Huy four 60-gallon casks, build four small carts to 
carry them, taking down your 6 feet spouting, and 
adda hook, and a few links of chain, and then con- 
vert all your manure and all convenient animal and. 
vesetable matter good for nothing else into liquid 
with vitriol and water or anything e'se you can de 
at with, and ther with one cooly te serape a small 
hollow round the tree to held a gallon of water to 
be sent down by measure from the cart, and another 
+o shift the spouts to another line of ceifee as they 
have done their duty, and other two coolies to attend 
+40 the cart and bullocks. These four coolies will 
manure half an acre per day. You will be able to 
calculate the cost and see how small it is. Manure 
applied in liquid will go much farther than when 
applied in bulk, and by making all your cattle man- 
are into liquid, keeping cattle will pay.” 
Mr. W. Cross Buchanan has given his views on the 
subject of manuring, and especially on the value of 
artificial and other manures, in a letter to the Plant- 
"ers Association, as follows:—‘' Within the last three 
