he birds and are carried in
on the feet and clothing of the laborers and visitors. We have no weeds
that run to seed in less than thirty days, and if the fields are gone
over, once a month, and any weed that can be found pulled up and buried,
the work of weeding will be reduced to a minimum. But if the weeds, that
are bound to spring up, are allowed to run to seed, the work of weeding
will be greatly increased and will require the labor of a large gang to
keep the fields in order. If taken in time, the labor of one man will
keep from 15 to 25 acres quite clean. During the first year after
setting out the fields, all that is required is to keep the fields clear
of weeds and the replacing, with a healthy tree from the nursery, any
tree that from any cause looks sickly and does not come along well.

It will be found that in parts of the field some trees, while looking
healthy, do not grow as fast as the average of the trees, this is often
due to the soil not being of as good a quality. Knolls and side hills
are not generally so rich as the hollows and valleys, and the coffee
trees, planted in the poorest parts of the field, should be fertilized
until they are as vigorous as the trees in the best parts.

HANDLING.

During the second year the young trees will have begun to make a good
growth and will require handling. In order to make clear the description
of the operations of handling and pruning, it may be well to describe
here the component parts of the coffee tree.

The underground portion consists of a tap root and numerous lateral or
side roots. The parts above ground consist of:

1st. The stem or trunk.

2d. The primaries or first branches; these grow from the trunk in pairs
at intervals of from two to four inches, the two primaries, making a
pair, grow one opposite to the other, the pair above radiating out at a
different angle and so on to the top of the tree.

3rd. The secondaries; these are the branches that grow in pairs from the
primaries.

4th. The tertiaries; these are the third branches that grow in pairs
from the secondaries in the same manner as the secondaries grow on the
primaries.

5th. The leaves that grow on all the branches.

During the whole of the second year, the field should be gone over at
least every two months and all the secondaries that make their
appearance should be rubbed off; this can be done by a touch of the
fingers, if the secondaries are not more than two or three inches