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Payable bunches amounted to 40,916, or 303 to the 

 acre. The receipts were 458 from miscellaneous sources, 

 coco-nuts, cacao, and 2210 155. 3d. from bananas. 



The following is an example of the expenditure and 

 receipts on a portion of woodland fifty acres on a pen, 

 which has been utilized for cultivating bananas. 



The operations were commenced in October 1899, and 

 the expenditure to December 1901 amounted to 1312, 

 which includes interest at 6 per cent., barracks of six 

 rooms, purchase of suckers, and cutting down forest 

 land. 



The receipts month by month were as follows : 



Total 2155 6 4 



A word of caution is necessary in considering the receipts- 

 Every one who has had experience of growing bananas 

 knows how a sudden " blow ' may level hundreds of acres 

 of stems, and this may happen just when the bunches are 

 ready for the harvest, and a year's work and expenditure 

 are lost beyond redemption. The planter should therefore 

 insure himself in some way so as not to be left stranded 

 without money to carry on cultivation for another year. 



In the general review of banana cultivation in other 

 lands, various estimates are given of expenditure, which 

 may be compared with those stated for Jamaica. 



