LI I* It A K i 

 UNIVERSITY oi 

 CALIFORNIA, 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Estimates Difficulties in the way of accuracy Cost of land 

 SOUTHERN INDIA, First year Second year Third 

 year Fourth year Fifth year Sixth year Seventh 

 year Balance-sheet. CEYLON, First year Second 

 year Third year Fourth year Fifth year Sixth 

 year Remarks Crop Market value Balance-sheet 

 General result. 



A BOOK such as the present would be incomplete 

 without estimates of the cost of bringing a coffee 

 estate under cultivation, and of maintaining it in 

 that condition, as against the returns which may 

 reasonably be looked for. 



To furnish accurate statements of this nature is 

 now more difficult than ever, owing to a variety of 

 causes. In the first place, it is almost impossible 

 to say what sum per acre might have to be paid for 

 land at the outset. Looking at Ceylon, we find 

 prices for forest ranging from 8 to 2$ per acre, 

 while, if we embrace the districts of Southern India 

 in our survey, the figures may be almost anything, 

 from 10 rupees upwards. As shown in a previous 



