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“and good management. In short, there must be economy of 
“ production all round, But it must be economy by which 
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ethods generally, and in the cultivation of the land in 
"ta pancnalae with the prime object of increasing the productive 
“ capacity of the cacao plantations.” 
SPICE CULTIVATION. 
213. Grenada owes to the late Colonel eae the initiative in 
any part of the New World. This estate is situated in a depression 
i 250 t 
in the centre of the island. and contains o 300 a anipe of 
nutmeg trees in an excellent state of ranere Nutmeg and 
As stated in the v Bulletin, 1891, j, on an estate in 
Grenada, at an a of 1,100 feet, a number of nutmeg trees, 
re „ Covering 0 acres of land, known y 
annual Ae of nutmegs and mace of the gross value of about 
“ 1,000/. sterling.” This is, of course, a very exceptional instance. 
Mr. Gurney, who has had charge of Colonel Duncan’s estates for 
many years, gave the meh e ee before the Commission 
in regard to nutmeg cultivatio 
214. “This is a cultivation = great help to the island; the 
“ people in most cases have a- few trees in their holdings, eat the 
“ estates have areas more or Pa akak, To ‘his small pon 
ounds 
Sayra able scale, as ra the planting to the bearing profitably 
the trees a period, under favourable cng ST of not 
it is of a golde n colour. "The dales of cloves is net 80 
promising as nutmegs, as the market is ee overstocked with 
supplies from Zanzibar and the East Indies 
COFFEE. 
2i6. The Agricultural Commission of 1895 reported in regard 
to coffee as follows :—“ There has been among our witnesses a 
