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and planted with coffee and cacao, and the first yield was obtained in 
1893. The actual cost of the plantation has been 2,4007., and with this 
modest expenditure the plantation will undoubtedly hah a very profit- 
able undertaking. 1 enclosé an extract of the portion of Mr. Holmes’s 
report which refers to the plantation, in case your Lordship should wish 
to send it to the Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew 
(Extraet.) 
Distriet Commissioner's Office 
Ca us Coast, October 13, 1894. 
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I have visited Messrs. Milter Brother vid Company's plintaded at 
Kuby Kul twice during the guar uarter by the kind permission of their 
agent, Mr. Batty. The estate consists of a commodious house 
and ayt sheds and about 450 acres. It is situated about 10 miles 
inland. The Cape Coast Sefwhi main road (which is now being con- 
above the sea level. I first visited the plantation in 1892, when there 
on only about 20 acres planted with cacao and Liberian coffee ; the 
> part was covered with thick bush and forest: The plantation is 
only four years years -— the first planting from the nursery being in June 
as been increased year by year in areas of about 
50 acres at a FUR ind the rearing of plants Mb — e 
proceeded as under :— 
Falt No. a No. of Coffee Number Yield of Yield of 
` į Plants reared. | Plants reared. planted. Cacao. Coffee. 
1890 - 500 3,000 Planted out uu Sa 
1891 - 1,500 3,000 ye — — 
1892 - 2,000 15,000 $ — aiy 
1893 -~ 2,500 3,000 ii 21 cwt 18 ewt. 
1894 - 1,500 1,500 E Crop in progress of 
picking and curing. 
8,000 25,500 25,500 — = 
Tn nursery 1,500 15,000 -— c a 
9,500 40,500 -— ái — 
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The coffee trees are planted. out 13 feet eie Mg but I think it 
— — found from experience that 10 feet 
s now cleared which remain b be planted. . ‘The 
valey bise been utilized for the cacao and th evite portions for 
ffee. At present there are roughly 150 ee fly p planted with trees 
which are of the followin ng respective ages, viz. :— 
20 acres coffee, 4 years old. 
cacao, 
vica acre of these trees were brought from Aburi Botanical Gardens.) 
60 en 3 ayon ears old. 
id » 
20 oy coffee, 2 " 
15. .,, cacao, lj ». 
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