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EXPENDITURE AND REVENUE IN 

 TRINIDAD, B.W.I. 



FROM the foregoing estimates it will be seen 

 that the Portuguese African estimates and 

 those of Mr. Brown differ considerably as 

 regards the cost of up-keep and making the 

 copra ; so it may be as well to add the fol- 

 lowing, taken from the Bulletin of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Trinidad, W.I., for 

 July-December, 1912, pp. 173 et seq. It runs 

 into several pages, but we give only the 

 details for opening up and bringing 550 acres 

 into bearing during the first six years : 



Expenditure, 

 ist Year. 



Cost of land (550 acres at 505. per acre) ... ^"1,375 



Clearing 130 acres at 305. ... ... ... 195 



Roads and traces ... ... ... ... ... 50 



Lining, holing, planting and seed-nuts (100 acres) 165 



Weeding and cutlassing ... ... ... ... 150 



Draining ^25, ward rates and taxes ^32 ... 57 

 Stock (5 oxen, 2 cows, 2 horses, i cart, stable, 



pen) ... ... ... ... ... ... 300 



Labourers' barracks (12 rooms) ... ... ... 300 



Dwelling-house ... ... ... ... ... 400 



Supplies and contingencies ... ... ... 100 



Superintendence ... ... ... ... ... 200 



Total ^3*292 



