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from 25 tons to 40 tons, you will increase your 

 output per man and reduce your field expenses 

 in corresponding proportion. It is better to 

 have 3,000 acres yielding 40 tons than 6,000 

 giving 20 tons per acre. To this extent planters 

 have the remedy of shortage of labour in their 

 own hands. It will naturally seem to some 

 people that labour being the limiting factor 

 recruiting for the niines should be put an end 

 to. This question, however, cannot be dealt 

 with wholesale, but requires examination in 

 detail, and according to the circumstances of 

 each district. 



At only one estate in the Province is spirit 

 being manufactured from molasses, namely, at 

 Inhamacurra, where the lessees of the factory 

 are under agreement to distil rum for 60 reis 

 a litre for the Companhia do Boror, who have 

 a monopoly for the sale of the liquor in the 

 district, and retail it for 800 reis a litre. At 

 all other estates except Villa Fontes, where the 

 molasses are mixed with the megass for fuel, it 

 is wasted, the licences for the distillation of 

 spirit being prohibitive. This is an instance 

 where regulations operating against the exploi- 

 tation of a country's wealth demand revision. 



