Value of forest land top soil as a manure, and as a substitute
    for farmyard manure.

The comparative cost of farmyard manure and top soil.  Remarkable
    result from an application of pink-coloured soil.

If top soil costs the same as farmyard manure the former is
    better.  Reasons for this being so.  A compost of pink soil and
    manures may be made, which will equal good farmyard manure, and
    cost but little more.

The manurial value of pulp, and of dry fallen leaves.

Manurial value of green twigs of trees, ferns and wood ashes.

Night soil.  Lime.

Bonedust.  Fish manure.

Oil-cakes.  Proportion of phosphate of lime in castor cake.

Nitrates of potash and soda.

Potash.  A manure of doubtful value in the case of Mysore soils.

Attempt to ascertain value of potash as a manure for coffee.

How to grow young plants in old soils.  Coprolites, discovery of,
    in Mysore.

An agricultural chemist wanted for the province.  A careful record
    should be kept of manure applied.

Bringing round a neglected plantation.  Steps that should be
    taken.

Manurial experiments.

Native manurial practises should be studied.  Application of
    various soils as top dressing by native cultivators.  The best and
    most economical way of manuring coffee has yet to be discovered.

Manurial experiments need not be costly.

CHAPTER XIII.—­NURSERIES, TOPPING, HANDLING, PRUNING, ETC.

The selection of seed.

Irrigated coffee near Bangalore.  Mr. Meenakshia’s gardens.  The
    selection of a site for a nursery.

The best time for putting down the seed.

Plants should be grown in baskets.  The pits for vacancy plants.

Topping.  The best heights for.

The time when trees should be topped.

Handling and the removal of suckers.  Its importance as regards
    rot and leaf disease.

Pruning.

Management of pruning, with reference to rot and leaf disease.

The removal of moss and rubbing down the trees.  The cultivation
    of the soil.

Difficulties connected with the proper cultivation of the soil.

The best tools for digging.  Renovation pits.

Renovation pits valuable as water-holes.  Their value in
    connection with water conservation.

CHAPTER XIV.—­THE DISEASES OF COFFEE.

Leaf disease, or attacks of Hemeleia Vastatrix.

Mr. Marshall Ward’s report on leaf disease in Ceylon.  Leaf
    disease probably always existed in Mysore.  Said to have caused
    much loss on some estates.

Losses of leaves from other causes commonly attributed to leaf
    disease.  No reason to fear it if land is well cultivated,
    manured, and shaded.  Evidence that shade can control leaf
    disease.