Cost an& profit ot Coffee ttafsfng in Ceylon. 357 



Brought forward $*>73O OO 



One mile of cart road $250 oo 



One mile of path 75 oo 



Repairing of roads and drains 20000 52500 



Weeding 200 acres for twelve months at 50 cents per month 



per acre 1,200 OO 



Permanent Buildings. Store, 120 by 30 feet, three floors, 



iron roof and stone pillars $5,ooo oo 



Pulping house, water wheel, and machinery 2,500 oo 



Iron pipes for conveying the coffee to the pulper 1,250 oo 



House for laborers, 60 by 20 feet 50000 9,25000 



Crop Expenses. Picking, pulping, and curing 400 cwt. at $i . 50 



per cwt 600 oo 



Transportation of 1900 bushels parchment to Colombo at 



yi\ cents 593 75 



Cost in Colombo of curing 400 cwt. at $1.12$ per cwt. . . 450 oo 



Export duty on 400 cwt., at 25 cts. per cwt 100 oo 



1,743 75 



General transportation 375 oo 



Purchase of tools. 150 oo 



General contingencies 375 oo 



Loss by rice 375 



Medicines and medical attendance 100 oo 1,375 oo 



$15,823 75 

 Loss by exchange on $15,000, at 6 per cent 930 oo 



Expenses of the third year $16,753 75 



RECAPITULATION. 



First year's expenditure $10,679 o 



Second year's expenditure 7,289 oo 



Third year's expenditure 16,753 75 



Total expenditure $34,721 75 



Less value of 400 cwt. of coffee in the London market, 

 at $16.75 net per cwt 6,700 oo 



Estate Dr. Jan. i, 1869 $28,021 75 



Comparing the expenses and the yield of coffee in Ceylon, accord- 

 ing to the data supplied by the preceding estimate, with the expenses 

 and the yield of coffee in Soconusco, the total expenses are found to 

 be greater in Ceylon than in Soconusco, notwithstanding the fact that 

 some of the processes of cultivating and preparing the coffee for 

 market cost less there than in Soconusco ; while the yield is much smaller 

 in Ceylon than in Soconusco. 



Two hundred acres are equivalent to 1,844 cuerdas. Calculating 

 that in each acre there are planted 1200 trees, at a distance of six feet 

 apart, the usual distance in Ceylon, we shall have 240,000 trees, which 

 will give 130^- trees to each cuerda. 



According to Mr. Sabonadiere's esitmate, each acre of ground 



