Ix Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



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EXPENDITURE AND REVENUE IN TRINIDAD, B.W.I. 422 



A set of tables, year by year up to the I7th year are 

 discussed published by the Bulletin of the Board 

 of Agriculture first cost of the land, of clearing, 

 weeding and bringing into cultivation cost of 

 reaping, making copra, &c. then the revenue dis- 

 cussed finally we include a summary of the seven- 

 teen years' work, showing expenditure and revenue 

 total expenditure (550 acres planted), ^18,143 

 before the estate becomes (about the twelfth year) 

 self-supporting. 



BRITISH NORTH BORNEO AND THE NEW HEBRIDES ... 429 



The cost of land there the question of labour 

 rubber being planted rapidly introduction of 

 Chinese labour the Javanese will Filipinos be 

 obtainable the low price of land in B.N.B. the 

 question of mixed crops and very large estates 



, coco-nuts, cattle, and Manila hemp paper making 

 again sisal and Manila hemp, coco-nut husks, 

 bamboo, &c., as raw material B. N. B. Govern- 

 ment doing all they can to encourage coco-nut 

 planting robusta coffee, soya-beans and ground- 

 nuts discussed the New Hebrides practically un- 

 know^i, but "great" for coco-nuts also good for 

 cacao, coffee, and cotton proof of. how coco-nuts 

 flourish and yield (with illustration). 



SAMOA IN 1913 437 



Mr. Moors' valuable experience how and why the 

 Islands have increased their output native v. 

 European owners the true age at which the palms 

 yield question of distances for planting nuts to 

 the ton of copra manure and iron benefit the trees 

 distrust exaggerated reports as to yields would 

 it pay to thin out the nuts and leave only the forty to 

 come on ? the question of picked v. dropped nuts 

 for copra drying methods weeding grasses, 

 good and bad cover crops ground provisions 

 diseases and pests the Rhino beetle, its advent 

 and spread how it is being checked varieties of 

 copras discussed rubber and cacao v, coco-nuts 

 the value of potash manures Samoa very healthy 

 Chinese and perhaps Javanese labour introduced. 



