67 
7312.; coffee, 2267. ; fruit, 831/.; firewood, 964/.; ground ri 
200l. ; hides, 1537.; kola nuts, 16/.; manures, 1481. ; poultry, 
6967, ; cocoanuts, 91/.; turtle shell, 1187. 
SUGAR LNDUSTRY. 
ivation ; t em 
ettlers, are scattered all over the 
sugar works still existing are kept up chiefly for the 
distillation of mrs of which there is a local annual consumption 
of 60,000 gallon 
The e gradual wee of E exports of sugar from Grenada is 
shown in the following table 
Year. Value of Exports. Year. Value of Exports. 
£ 
1882 20,688 1893 731 
1883 25,877 1894 30 
1884 18,395 1895 15 
At the present time the aie does not produce sufficient sugar 
for its own consumption. In 1895 upwards of 500,000 pounds of 
muscovado sugar were imported from the neighbouring colonies. 
201. The growth of other industries is shown in the following 
comparison of exports for the years 1881 and 1893-94 :— 
Exports. | 1881. | 1893-94. 
| | 
Lbs. Lbs. 
E | 8,864,000 8,500,000 
Spices ae ss 100,000 200, 000 
Sugar 3 2,038,000 | 14,000 | 
202. There are some good lands at low elevation not yet taken 
ap for any seated industry. One witness considers that such lands 
are more suited to the cultivation of the sugar 
ing else . and were it possible to make sugar a paying 
ety, in the West Indies, such lands would Held. splendid 
return 
Cane farming and central factories are suggested as 
the most iatis means for effecting this 
CACAO. 
203. The first planting x cacao in Grenada took place on 
mountain lands in a cool and moist atmosphere, above the then 
