Agriculture In Morobe District, T.N.G.

This photograph gives a good idea of the rugged country surrounding the Leahy Brothers’ agricul tural lease near the Morobe goldfields town of Wau, T.N.G.

In this region, 3,500 feet above sea level, coffee has been found to thrive ex ceptionally well. Mr. C.

B. L. Wilde, who took over the N.G. Administration’s experimental farm near Wau, some years ago, now has 100 acres of Jamaica Mountain coffee under cultivation. The average yield to the acre, at Wau, is about one ton, and, although the coffee plants bear more or less con tinually throughout the year, September and October, having the heaviest yields, are re garded as the harvest months.—A.F.K.