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CASSAVA : COST OF CULTIVATION. 



The following statement of the cost per acre of cultivating and 

 harvesting Cassava on old ruinate land has been sent by a culti- 

 vator in the Magotty district, St. Elizabeth. 



Job l^ork. 



Cutting 



Burning and clearing up 



Digging 4,840 holes (3 feet distances) 



at 3d. per lOO 

 Sticks at 3/ per cart load — 2 loads* 

 Cart hire — 2 days at 5/* 

 Planting suckers — 8/ 

 2 weedings at 8/ 

 Harvesting — 6/ 

 Supervision — 10/ 



10 



£426 



Cartage, where the fields are within measurable distance of 

 the mills, say ten tons to the acre, ought not to exceed 10/. 



REPORT ON COCOA IN ST. MARY. 



Mr. W. Cradwick, Travelling Instructor, to the Director of Public 



Gardens. 



Sir, 



Ramble P.O., 25th Feb., 1905. 



3 lots surface soil 



I have sent to Dr. Cousins, the Agricultural Chemist, samples of 

 soils as follows : — 



E. Hope Dyer, Highgate P.O., Orange 



River property 

 A. M. Edwards, Riversdale, Mission pro- 

 perty, Mt. Hermon 

 do do do 



Jno. Lockett, Troja P.O., Kendal 



do do do 



H. J. Rudolf, Hampstead P.O., Belle- 

 ville 

 do do do 



Richard Sutherland, Oracabessa, Home 

 Cottage 

 do do do 



Josiah Campbell 



do do do 



Isaac Milbourne, Port Maria, Preston 



do do do 



* Omit these items for fields once established. 



