given
out for planting.
Cinchona and Ceara rubber planting tried and abandoned. Coffee
seed introduced from Brazil, and other countries, without any
apparent advantage. Liberian coffee tried experimentally.
The capital spent on labour and the consequential results of this
on agriculture. My visit to Coorg in 1891.
The route from Mysore. The coffee works at Hunsur. Interesting
adventure with a panther.
To Mr. Rose's estate near Polibetta. Description of Bamboo
district.
Life in the Bamboo district. The club, church, and co-operative
store.
Visits to plantations. Left for Mercara.
The Retreat. Mr. Meynell's house. Its kitchen arrangements, etc.
Mr. Mann's coffee garden at Mercara. The large profits from it.
To the Hallery estate six miles from Mercara.
Visits to several estates. To the Coovercolley estate. Mr.
Mangles's.
Left Coovercolley for Manjarabad in Mysore.
General observations on coffee planting in Coorg. Its flourishing
condition. More attention should be paid to shade.
Defects as regards shade. More attention to it would lessen
Borer.
Manures used on the best kept up estates.
The profits that may be expected from good, well-managed estates.
The great want of a Game Preservation Act.
CHAPTER X.--COFFEE PLANTING IN MYSORE.
An agreeable life for an active intelligent man who must work
somewhere.
Qualities necessary to make a successful planter.
The work not hard. The climate agreeable and healthy. The
elevation of the coffee districts above sea level.
The changes that may be taken in the slack season by planters.
The durability of well-shaded plantations.
Shaded plantations a very permanent property. The profits of
coffee. Case of an estate bought with borrowed money.
Analysis of yield, expenses, and profits on a Manjarabad estate.
Probable profits on estates in the northern part of Mysore.
From want of information coffee plantations in Mysore not
saleable at good prices. Failure of coffee in Ceylon. This gave
coffee generally an undeservedly bad name.
Early notices of coffee in India. Its early history in Mysore.
Failure of the variety of coffee first introduced.
The successful introduction of the Coorg variety of coffee.
Mysore coffee fetches the highest price in the London market.
Original Mysore coffee land tenures.
The new Coffee Land Rules introduced in 1885.
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