PLANTATION ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE. 155 



Brought forward -Rs. 561= ^37 8 o 

 Second year 



Weeding, 20 acres, at R. i per month = J 



Rs. 240 - !* 420= 28 o o 



Watchman, Rs. 15 per month = Rs. 180 - ) 



Third year ,, 420= 28 o o 

 Fourth year (weeding stopped, not necessary) 



Watchman, Rs. 180, drains, Rs. 50 = 230 - 230= 15 6 8 



Fifth year ,, 230= 15 6 8 



Sixth year ,, ,, 230= 15 6 8 



Seventh year 230= 15 6 8 



Cost up to seventh year Rs. 2,321 =^154 14 8 



It should be observed that the cost of superintendence is not 

 charged in the above. 



Mr F. Lewis, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Ceylon, gives 

 the following estimate of cost of opening and planting 300 acres 

 of forest land with rubber : 



Felling and clearing 300 acres of forest at Rs. 12 per acre - Rs. 3,600 



Lining 300 acres, 10 by 10 feet, at Rs. 2 per acre 600 

 Holing 300 acres, at 75 holes per coolie, at 40 cents, 



130,6804- 75 by 40 - 697 

 Filling and planting and carrying plants from nursery to holes, 



300 per coolie at 40 cents, 130,680^-300 by 40 175 



Draining 300 feet of drains per acre at i cent per foot run 900 

 Lines for coolies, one shed of ten rooms of 12 by 10 feet, 



mud walls and battacola roof, at Rs. 30 per room 300 



Roads for inspection, two miles, at Rs. 80 per mile - 160 

 Bungalow for assistant, improvements to present buildings at 



Midelland plantation - 75 



Plant nursery, including watering of seed beds 1 50 

 Weeding (assuming the opening of the land to be in July 



1897) at R. i per acre for six months = 30o by 6 1,800 



Cost of surveying lines round plantation, say - 57 

 Contingencies, such as special work, bridges over streams, or 



supplying vacancies, &c. 250 



Total actual outlay - Rs. 8,782 



(^585 9 4) 



Carried forward - Rs. 8,782 



