Mango, should be sawn up as soon as they are dry.  Sawn wood should be brought home at once and stored in a house sheltered from the east wind which dries up the wood extremely, and a careful list should be kept of it.  Wood for rafters is the better for being put into a tank and left there for four or five months.  I may explain that stone posts (we use the literal translation from the Kanarese) are blocks of from 8 to 12 feet in length, which are raised by fire by an ingenious process.  The natives first light fires on the slab of sheet rock they desire to operate on, and then cut small holes along the segment they wish to split off.  They then drive wedges into the side of the rock, and the segment splits off, giving a stone post of the length required (they may be raised as long as 20 feet) and about 18 inches wide and 5 inches thick.  There are no more useful things to have a supply of on an estate, and we use short ones for the posts of wire fences and for stiles.  They are particularly useful for supporting verandas.

To prevent white ants attacking the roofs of buildings I have successfully used the following mixture.  Tar, one pailful; asphalte, 2 lbs.; and castor oil, one seer.  Mix and boil these ingredients.  Afterwards add sand.  Then plaster the mixture on the top of the walls to the depth of about two inches, and on this place the wall plates.  This plan was adopted when one of my bungalows was re-roofed many years ago, and we have not a sign of white ants, though they are numerous all around the house.

If posts, when put in the ground, are buried in sand, and surrounded with it up to the level of the floor, white ants will not attack the wood, as they cannot apparently work in sand.  This is important to remember, as wooden posts are often used for cattle, and other sheds.

Toddy trees past yielding toddy should be cut down, split into convenient sizes for reapers and other purposes, and should then be smoked to preserve the wood.  As I previously pointed out, the toddy tree (Caryota Urens palm) is a most useful tree, and the seeds of it should be freely sown in the fences, waste jungle, and the bottoms of deep ravines, but it is not a desirable tree to have in the plantation.

Wood for handles should be kept in store, as it is of great importance to use well seasoned wood.  Jack roots are valuable for all short handles.

Lines, or rows of houses for labourers should be made of sun-dried bricks, and roofed with corrugated iron.  For sanitary reasons they should, if possible, be divided over several sites.  The manager should occasionally visit the lines, and a duffadar be appointed to see after them, and that no dirty water is thrown down in front of the doors.  The houses should be numbered, and a list of the occupants kept.  New arrivals should be at once reported, as bad characters are often harboured in the lines.  A pensioned sepoy might be advantageously employed to look after