Chapter 10

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.

In the south of Mysore all coffee land probably taken up. In north, land reported to be still available. Planters well satisfied with the Government.

Advances to labourers. Legislation as regards them much needed.

Proposed measure to meet the advances to labourers difficulty.

Legislation required to amend the extraditions laws.

The New Cattle Trespass Act. The want of a Wild Birds' Protection Act. The neglect of game preservation.

In consequence of game destruction tigers forced to prey heavily on village cattle. Great losses in consequence.

Cruelty of native hunters. Evidences of extermination of game birds.

The want of a Government Agricultural Chemist. The discovery of a new hybrid coffee plant.

Enormous yield from it.