CHAPTER XL 



ESTIMATES AND EXPENSES. 



IT will doubtless be expected that some estimate should 

 be here given of the cost of opening and subsequently 

 cultivating coffee estates. It must be evident how- 

 ever, that this is entirely dependent on the rates of 

 wages, which differ materially in different countries, 

 and which vary even in the different districts of Ceylon 

 and of Southern India. The number of hands requisite 

 for the different descriptions of work will be given 

 with the average cost in Wynaad and Coorg. 



Works. Hands. Cost per acre. 



s. d, 



Clearing heavy forest .30 .0150 



Lopping and burning off .10 .050 



Lining and pitting .50 .150 



Filling pits and planting .10 .050 



Eoads . . . 40 . 1 



Trenching six inches deep .50 .150 



Do. twelve do. .50 .150 



600 



To this should be added the costs of 



plants . . .100 



And an average for tools per acre of . 010 



Carried forward 7 10 



