Cost anfc profit of Coffee IRalstng in Cepiotu 355 



According to the above data, a cuerda of coffee costs $4.26, and 

 ach tree yields a little more than 4 cents, and the proceeds per cuerda 

 are $12.36, and per tree a little less than 12 cents. 



One must consider the fact that in the above data no notice has 

 been taken of the cost of buildings, machinery, clerks, preparing the 

 coffee for the market, taking up of the crop, debts of the laborers while 

 on the plantation, and of the runaways and other items comprised in 

 the calculations made above regarding the cost of coffee in Soconusco. 



3. COST AND PROFIT OF COFFEE IN CEYLON. 



The preceding estimates, made before seeing Mr. Sabonadiere's 

 book, are, I think, fully corroborated by the estimate which that writer 

 gives of the cost and profit of 200 acres of ground planted with coffee 

 in Ceylon. 



I insert below Mr. Sarbonadiere's estimate, taken from his Coffee 

 Planter of Ceylon (2d edition, London, 1870), and without further al- 

 teration than that of the reduction to dollars and cents of the sums 

 which he puts in pounds sterling, making this reduction on the basis of 

 five dollars to the pound. 



Estimated expenditure to plant 200 acres of land with coffee and 

 bring it into bearing : 



FIRST YEAR SEPTEMBER, 1865. 



Purchase of 300 acres (2,766 cuerdas) of land at $5 per acre. $1,500 oo 



Survey fees 205 oo $1,705 oo 



Nursery or purchase of plants 250 oo 



JANUARY, 1866. 



Salary of European Superintendent for one year $600 oo 



Allowances 200 oo 



Native Overseer 250 oo 1,050 oo 



MARCH TO DECEMBER 31, 1866. 



Felling, lopping, and clearing up of 100 acres (922 cuerdas), 



at $12.50 per acre 1*250 oo 



Drilling holes in 100 acres, at $6.25 per acre $625 oo 



Staking 100 acres at $1.75 per acre 175 oo 



Planting 100 acres, at $2.25 per acre 225 oo 



Filling in holes at $2.25 per acre 225 oo 1,250 oo 



One mile of cart roads $250 oo 



Two miles path, at $75 per mile 150 oo 400 oo 



Carried forward $5,QO5 oo 



