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acre. Now if a man grows 6 tons of sugar a year, the 
Fa€tory would take half, leaving him with 3 tons as repre- 
senting his year’s work; 3 tons are 6,720 Ibs. which at 
2c, means $134 40. Supposing $30 to have gone in 
manure, the net income would be $104 40, or just over 
$2 a week. Many planters think that too men could 
not tackle as many as 400 acres, but I think that if it 
could be arranged that 200 acres were cut in O€étober 
and the other 200 acres left over until the first 200 were 
‘ established’ it might be done. Under the present system 
of cutting nearly everything within three months, the 
men would have more work to do than they could manage 
when cutting canes and for some time after, and then 
scarcely anything at all to dofor several months. Under 
the present system of reaping all the crop at one time it 
might be advisable that the men would adopt the Barbados 
system and plant only 200 acres in canes and the other 200 
acres in provisions or other produce. In this case their 
sugar crop would average only 3 tons of sugar per man, or 
dedu€ting the half claimed by the Fa€tory, only 14 tons, 
or $67 20 a year per man from the Cane-farms. 
Cane-farming is only another development of the 
Sugar Industry, let us see what fresh fields and pastures 
new we might have. 
Wel!, after considering Sugar and Gold the next most 
important thing is, perhaps, Rice. But here again our 
black population would have to enter into competition 
with the East Indian Immigrant, who probably will almost 
monopolize this industry, The ‘ coolie,’ to use the usual 
but incorre&t designation, is perfeétly happy if he has a 
trash house with a smooth mud floor, good grazing for 
his beloved cattle, a plentiful supply of good water, and 
