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Cultural Industries at the Gold Coast.—The following extract is tak 
from =g Report on the Gold Coast for the year see pud published 
by the Colonial Office. [Annual Series, 1895, No. 
“ The only important advance which has been iit in the cultivation 
everal 
size been 
natives in the country of Akwapim, and the larger plantations fi the 
neighbourhood of Cape Coas t, more especially that owned by the 
Glasgow firm of Messrs. Miller Brothers and Com mpany, are beginning 
to produce the coffee berry in paying quantities. It wil een on 
deut, to the table of exports, that the export of coffee has increased 
from 12,899 Ibs. in 1892 to 21,437 lbs. in 1893. 
“ It is satisfactory to note that the export of kola-nuts has uem 
3d. 
cig value in 1892 being 13287. 7s. 3d., whereas it was 25,7164. bs. 7d. 
n 1893. f stated in my report for 1892 that more would x heard of 
PR as an article of export, and there is every reason to suppose 
d 
that attention is now being given to this valuable Soma product, 
ee is to be found in large quantities in the hinterland of the Gold 
Coas 
Tis trade in rubber was very good, as the following comparison 
with the trade in 1892 shows :— 
c Weight. | Value. 
Ibs. 
acc z : ; : 2,002,000 — 
LOI o iu Er ames aoe ae 3,895,990 - 
** A good dai of general work has been acne in the Government 
botanical station during the year and considerable attention has been 
paid to the plantations of coffee and cacao, 1 n the cultivation of both of 
hrough the country of Akwapim to the interior are large numbers of 
ida clearings in which coffee plants, —— n by purchase from 
the botanical station, are to be seen in t flourishing condition. 
The Liberian coffee plant appears to chet gi but there a are large 
quantities also of the Arabian coffee plant, the berry of whi hich, however, 
" small. and apparently deteriorated. It will probably be necessary for 
e Government at no distant date, if the coffee in ustry is to be 
foii into a trade, to instruct these native cultivators in the proper 
way of preparing the berry for export. At pee us most primitive 
method is employed. The berries are Maipo and with a round 
