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or whatever it may be, across which you come in cutting the 

 rentices. By making such remarks on the plan along the rentice 

 under work it will be easy after a time to connect these across the 

 blank of the square even without having opened and actually seen 

 the land. 



Thus, without having had to go to any additional trouble and 

 expense a very nearly accurate plan of the whole property will 

 gradually develop itself, which cart at any time be made into an 

 accurate one as soon as the jungle goes down. There are very few 

 of the old Estates in the country that can boast of such a plan and 

 the making of one is likely to cost many times more than the laying 

 down of such a co-ordinate system. 



The advantages offered by the system for the ordinary Estate 

 work are considerable. In a district where it is difficult to get 

 reliable felling contractors the ioacre blocks are a boon ; I find it 

 much easier to get ioacre taken up and well done than 100 and 

 before everything else: it is so much easier to control the men and 

 progress and quality of their work. They do not mind paying a 

 •ittle attention to not throwing trees across the rentices and if this 

 should happened by accident it is hardly a waste of money in the 

 interest of supervision to spend a few dollars on clearing the rentices 

 when work is done. 



There is nothing more depressing than starting clearing work on 

 a big field after a bad or indifferent burn. With my system I have, 

 in suc h a case, gone in search of the best block and after defining 

 the boundaries started work there when done with it. I did not 

 only know that io-acres were ready but I could start lining it 

 '^mediately without having had to fear the chaos which would 

 probably have been inevitable if starting lining in the old way. 



: part of the work has 

 -acre blocks. It is a 

 matter of i few houreto put up along The" two opposite sides of the 

 square rea dy cleared for work, rows of panchangs, 13 ft- 2 

 apart; at every fifth peg a big pole is put in, marking distance ot one 

 ' Ul next these big poles on opposite sides have to be connected 



ilT3 ht Hnes of 13 2 in - a P art - The reS J ult °u k Ta 



*nfiei ds each of 1 acre in extent 10 chains long and I chain broad 

 d ™ I have not found a gang of coolies yet too silly to make a mess 

 01 remaining detail work. 



alon 11 l earin S and burning done I have big holes dug a chain apart 

 tt " g th £ sides of every 10-acre fields and a coconut-tree planted 

 ■ The boundaries 7 are thus permanently fixed and I know 

 ^ the field before me is exact l y P ro acres and contains exactly 



rnavn ;f" 2 -' 250 trees if P lanted 13 ft ' 2 in *j 3 "i 2 

 ,a y Prefer 13 ft. 2 i n . x 26 ft. 4 in., but this is a detail. 



■nf!n2 nd that the whol e working of an Estate cut up in this ; way is 

 area ^ ^ er than with our old fields of irregular shape unknot 

 d - and numbers of trees and rows and though I have none yei 



