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CHAP. 



Dollars. 



Brought forward . . 5OOO 



Clearing jungle ....... 25*00 



Pegging ........ 6*50 



Price of plants . . ... 25 '00 



Keeping clean . . . . . . . 6*00 



Gathering crop ....... 11*00 



Attending kiln . 6*50 



Erection of kiln . 25*00 



First year's cost 265*00 



2nd year. 



Keeping clean ....... 6*00 



Planting 10*00 



Gathering crop . . . . . . .11 *00 



Attending kiln 6*00 



Miscellaneous 25*00 



Buildings . 25*00 



Total . . 348*00 



Sale of two years' crops, say 8,000 Ibs. dry ginger 



at 15 cents per Ib 1,200*00 



Seen expenditure 348*00 



Profit . . 852*00 



The return, 8,000 Ibs. per acre, seems very large com- 

 pared with that of Jamaica and India. 



REGIONS OF CULTIVATION 



India. It is cultivated in all the moister and 

 warmer parts from the plains to 4,000 or 5,000 ft. in 

 the Himalayas. In Malabar the best is said to be the 

 produce of the district of Sherwood, situated to the 

 south of Calicut. This part of India has been famous 

 for its ginger for three centuries at least, its cultiva- 

 tion here being mentioned by Linschoten (1596). 



In Bombay the crop is of considerable importance. 

 In 1888 to 1889 it occupied 918 acres, of which 640 

 were in Gujarat. In Bengal ginger is largely grown, its 

 cultivation extending to Nepal and other localities on 

 the border of the Himalayas, and that of Nepal is 



