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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 1 whole property will 
gradually develop itself, which can 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 m^ny»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 10 acre blocks are a boon ; I find it 
much easier to get io-acre taken up and well done than loo 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 
little 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 dbllars 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 bum. With my system I have, 
in such a case, gone in search of the best b>ock 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 
immediately without having htad to Tear the chaos which would 
probably have been inevitable if starting lining in the old way. 
For the lining of a field practically the worst part of the work has 
been done by the man laying out these io-acre blocks. It is a 
matter of a few hours to put up along the two opposite sides of the 
square ready cleared for work, rows of panchangs, 13 ft. 2 in. 
apart: at every fifth peg a big pole is put in, marking distance of one 
chain ; next these big poles on opposite sides have to be connected 
by straight lines of pegs, 13 ft. 2 in. apart. The result of this are 
ten fields each of 1 acre, in extent 10 chains long and 1 chain broad 
and 1 have not found a gang of coolies yet too silly to make a mess 
of the remaining detail work. 
A.11 clearing and burning done I have big holes d % ug a chain apart 
along the sides of every 1 o-acre fields and 1 a coconut-tree planted 
there. The boundaries are thus permanently fixed and I know 
that the field before me is exactly 10 acres and contains exactly 
50 x 50, viz., 250 trees if planted 13 ft. 2 in. x. 13 ft. 2 in. Some 
may prefer 13 ft. 2 in. x 26 ft. 4 in., but this is a detail. 
I found that the whole working of an Estate cut up in this way is 
infinitely easier than with our old fields of irregular shape unknown 
area, and numbers of trees and rows and though I have none yet in 
