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 _Hemeleïa 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. Bad kinds of shade trees cannot control, but increase leaf disease. Conditions under which leaf disease is liable to occur in the cases of good soil under good shade trees.