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13. Mr. Batty has planted his coftee plants 14 feet apart, which, m 
sidering ^m growth they have already made, does not seem too m 
The growth of some of the trees on this plantation is almost ende on 
Many of us have grown as much as five feet in one year, and the 
foliage is of great size and most luxuriant. 
14. Besides coffee, Mr. Batty has also planted cacao on an extensive 
This valuable ide seems to thrive equally as well. as coffee, 
the plants which I saw being in a healthy and flourishing condition, 
especially the ones supplied from the Botanical Station at Aburi during 
the previous year. ‘The cacao is planted at distances of 13 feet apart 
and shaded with plantains and bananas, which answer the purpose 
admirably. 
15. Tobacco was also being tried by Mr. Batty. He had about 2,500 
plants each of the Havana and Sumatra varieties. They were well- 
grown plants, with enormous leaves of a good texture, and if the opera- 
tion of curing has been successful shoal produce a good marketable 
article. 
16. After my visit to the Cape Coast district I returned to Accra and 
proceeded to Aburi, where I arrived on the 22nd Januar 
. On my arrival I commenced at once to clear the land purchased 
by the Government from the Rev. A. W. Clerk, and succeeded in clearing 
the bush from the pcre of the 16 acres during the months of February 
and March. The weather qnd this period was excessively dry and 
very suitable ja is kind of w 
ich Mice the land already possessed at the 
for the p 
It is a valuable piece of land, consisting for the mos 
black vegetable mould, and free from stones and gravel, with the excep- 
tion of a small tract of about an acre in extent near the Akropong road, 
tony. 
used a part of it as a aati garden, and found that 
potatoes did splendidly, Mei had a t 
from seed which was got o out fro ar Mem. Sutton an ns, Reading. 
Corn, cassava, sweet potatoes, be. have also been planted on this new 
land. ey assist in keeping down the undergrowth and bringing the 
land under blader and the produce comes in tp for red pigs, 
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20. A ait ote of palm trees has bodi allowed to remain. These 
I pro n out to emicat distances apart, and clean and trim 
up the remainder, then a fence round and allow the eha to run 
about in. They will be well pioteotéd from the sun, and the palm nuts 
make very goo 
21. After I had completed the clearing of this land I made a 12 foot 
road round it, and planted a boundary o of cocoanut palms at distances of 
25 feet apart. ese form an excellent and permanent boundary, an 
am pleased to say are all growing well, not one having died wb an the 
dry season experieneed since they were planted. is boundary of 
nut palms has been continued around the whole estate, ubout 300 
plants pores been planted out in this wa 
22. On the land formerly cleared and under cultivation a great 
mount of work has been done. On my return I noticed that cacao on 
the land videte from the west end of the bouse to the town of Aburi 
not grown as well as it should have done, and could see that 
the cause was want of shade. Plants of castor oil (Ricinus eee 
had been planted, but they had grown up spindly and did not efford 
sufficient protection, so I have planted bananas and atiina ptian 
