Nov 1, 1901.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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sent to Brazil by yonr locum tenens. The foUiclea 
of Parameria glandulifera sent me by you on 18th 
July last have produced nothing. I have ordered 
seeds of Chava'nnesia esaclenta to be collected and 
planted under the wild mango trees in the centre 
of the plantation. There are about 25 or 30 speci- 
mens in the Cantonment Gardens, planted by me 
in 1896, and doing fairly well, but they have not 
yet fruited. 
17. Area taken Gross acreage 32-14 acr^f' 
Deducting unsuitable or otherwise occupied land 4 
Net acreage for planting 27-64 acres. Planted as 
follows : — 
Stock, 1st July. 
Blockt Contents. 
Para. Ceara. 
A Para on 100 feet lines, part 
planted. ... .. 625 
Ceara on northern triangle 
not yet planted. South- 
ern belt part planted . . . . 40 
B Para on 100 feet lines, part 
planted. .. .. 186 
Ceara on Southern belt, 
planted 10 feet by 10 feet . . 180 
C Para on 100 feet lines, part 
planted .. ... 468 
Ceara not yet laid out for 
planting 
D Para on 300 feet by 300 
feet fully planted at 10 
feet by 10 feet intervals. 
Eest of block planted on 
100 feet lines ... 880 
Ceara scattered trees on . 
fence line 
30 
Total trees 2,159 502 
This calculation is exclusive of dead and doubtful 
trees and of nurseries containing about 60 Para and 
1,000 Ceara trees to b.- planted out shortly. 
18. Establishment. — The grant sanctioned by Gov- 
ernment for the current year ia Bs. oUO, with a 
promise of its increase, if necessary. To the amount 
drawn may be added a sum of, say,_ Rs. 100, the 
yield of land included in the plantation, but uusuited 
for India-rubber growing, making the sum available 
about Rs. 600. This would of course be inadequate 
were it not so arranged that the plantation is worked 
as a sewage farm. Thus the co-operation of the 
night-soil trenching staff is secured. Their pay is a 
charge to be met from the General Cantonment 
fund. Statement III shows the sauctioned scale for 
actual trenching work apart from the labour em- 
ployed in collecting and carting out the night- 
soil, as well as the staff engaged and paid out of 
the rubber grant.. This will give an adequate idea 
of the cost of the experiment as a whoh . 
19. For the better working of the project I have 
engaged a small gang of Mappillas from Malabar. 
ThoscT men show a keen interest in their work, and, 
thou'gh I must acknowledge the pains taken by the 
Burman head mali and the Coringis under him to 
make the cultivation a success, I prefer the Mappilla 
to the Coringi, on account of his physical strength 
and energy if for no other reason. It is too early 
yet to report definitely on the gang, but they fchow 
capacity and I hope will justify their importation. 
20. Future reqturements. — As the plnntation extends, 
more attention, and possibly a laiger temporary 
establishment will be required for watering and 
shading young trees in the dry weather. A masonry 
well in a central position will soonei or later become 
necessary, and for access of the carts to the ground 
to be manured (especially in the wet season) the 
main cart-tracks sliould be covered with laterite. 
There is abundance of laterite in the adjoining 
cholera camping ground, but for its extraction the 
orders of the Government of India in the Military 
Department are necessary. The General Officer 
Commanding Rangoon District has been applied 
to in this matter in the interests of Cantonment 
conservancy. 
21. Another point for consideration is the ac- 
quisition of land in extension, should the present 
experiments be approved by Government. Extension 
to the north and to the east is barred by the cholera 
camp and the kambe tank, but the soil of the whole 
" dangerous zone " of the Kokkaing rifle-range to 
the sorth [i.e., to the stop-butts of the rifle-iange 
itself^ is of the same class as that of the land now 
occupied. 
22. The plantation at present is, for all practical 
proposes, safe from stray bullets and will be so 
until the impending ch.inge in the weapon used by 
native troops take place. Although a much- 
used throughfare crosses the line of fire at 300 or 400 
yards beyond the butts, no accident as far as I can 
ascertain has ever been reported to the District au- 
thorities. But with the -303 rifle in use, as may be 
the case next year, not only the military cholera 
oamp, but nearly half a mile of metalled high-road 
(the circular road round the Victoria Lakes^ will 
fall into the dangerous zone, " and accidents may 
then be looked for. 
23. Under these circumstances, there .is every 
probability that the Miliiary authorities will move 
for the range to be abiindoned and the mnakptry 
of the whole garrison carded out upon the Thama- 
ing rifle-range, which is suited to weapons of greater 
carrryiug power. Should this occur, it might be de- 
sirable that the land be created a forests reserve and 
planted up throughout its length with India-rubber. 
Statement of establishments employed upon the Combined 
Rubber Plantation and Conservancy trenching- 
ground at Kambe. 
Establisment. 
No 
Paid from 
Cantonment 
FDND. 
Paid from 
RUBBER 
GKSNT. 
(1) 
Head gardener (Bur- 
Rs. 
Rs. 
man rated on Can- 
tonment establish- 
ment as trench 
cooly). 
1 
10 
120 
(2) 
Trench maistry (Ko- 
ringi sweeper caste) 
1 
15 
180 
(3) 
Garden coolies Map- 
pillas) 
4 
(4) 
Trench coolies-(Map- 
pillas) 
2 
11 
264 
(5) 
Trench coolies (Kor- 
ingi Hindus) 
2 
10 
240 
(6) 
Trench coolies (Kor- 
ingi sweepers) 
5 
10 
600 
Total 
14 
1,404 
53 
60 
11 528 
588 
(1) Duties include supervision of all day work 
whelber trenching or gaideuing— two-third pay to 
Conservancy, one-third to garden. 
(2) For night work. Receives t.ight soil carts as 
they arrive (midnight to 4 a.m.) and sees contents dis- 
charged into trenciies and buried by the sweepers. 
(3) General gardening operations, '^o help in 
opening trenches if required, but not in filling them 
(4; To open trenches on clean lands only. 
(5) To open trenches, and repair and extend cart- 
tracks, fence, &c. 
(6) To cover in trenches and to mound night soil 
&c. 
