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429. Under the shade of the pimento trees cattle are raised on a 
rich grass, called pi se eh grass, that thrives on dry limestone soil. 
Pimento may therefore be regarded as only a bye-product on 
lands usually prasi to stock raising 
GINGER. 
430. Ginger a heats en pa is vipa associated with 
Jamaica, This can be grown in almost every part of the tropics ; 
but the ginger l in the rich soils in Ae mountains of Jamaica 
usually fetches the highest prices. What is commercially known 
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as common Jamaica ginger has lately risen from öls. to 74s. per 
cwt., while good qualities have risen from 62s. to 98s. 6d. per cwt. 
These prices are due to the exceptionally large proportion of oil 
contained i e ai kim: The is an exhausting 
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fertility a these yeg by the use of suitable manures. In 
xperiment carried on by the Jamaica Agricultural Society at the 
oe of the Governor, good crops of ginger have been 
produced on abandoned lands. If this is confirmed by further 
trials, one of the most important problems connected with the 
maintenance of the ginger industry will have been satisfactorily 
solved. 
431. It is needless to pass in review all the numerous other 
industries now existing, or capable of being called into existence, 
in Jamaica. The exports of annatto, lime juice, isha dye 
woods, bitter-wood, lancewood rs, satinwood, ebo r cocos 
wood, lignum vitæ, walking sities (from thinnings. of sain) 
trees), phen iamarinds, sarsaparilla and nutmegs are already 
more ess prominent. They could be greatly increased at any 
time if Specie al attention were devoted to them. There are also 
medicinal plants, essential oils, spices, such as car seam eno 
pepper, cinnamon, and vanilla, coca, sisal hemp, cassava, chilli 
castor oil, papain ‘(the dried juice of the papaw), une cinchona 
barks. All of these already exist in the island, and are only 
waiting for favourable circumstances to be Ter a into 
important industries 
INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURE. 
432. In Jamaica there exists a larger body of landholders than 
possibly in bari other part of the West Indies. This is variously 
estimated at numbers ranging from 90,000 to 100,000. There are 
no doubt aa persons who have more than one holding, but it is 
m that one in every an persons in rss ca is l aisis of 
bei ing systematically Pop gene and of anra crops. ‘Tt is this 
n the economic condition of the island that 
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