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COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



prosperous. In the previous year, 84,357 cwts. was 

 exported, valued at ^160,617, of which 51,153 cwts, 

 went to the British Isles. 



Of Liberian Coffee, 1,633 plants, and 17 qrs. 

 of cherry for seed, were sent of the Government 

 gardens a very small amount. 



During three years the number of acres 

 under Coffee cultivation in the island has been 

 -(1881) 19,885; (1882) 22,842; (1883) 21,132. 



Ground provisions, which are the ordinary food 

 of the people, occupy the largest cultivated acreage ; 

 next come the lands in sugar cane, and then those 

 under Coffee. 



Last year's mean rainfall is thus summarized 

 in inches and fractions : 



In the district of the Santa Cruz Mountains 

 the Coffee is grown upon the red ferruginous earth 

 overlaying the white limestone formation. The 

 climate and rainfall there is said to be very similar 

 to those of Algiers. 



