Our Guatemalan neighbours seem to turn no small attention to the 

 cultivation of the Arabian coffee. YYhil-t i r will doubtless prove snittil »le 

 to the high areas of the Colony, the introduction of the hardy and rich 

 Liberian coffee — so well suited to low-lymi: areas, with it- comparatively 

 heavier crop, averaging from 6 lbs. to 8 lhs. per tree, 400 of which can 

 be accommodated on each acre — should receive the consideration it 

 deserves. Judging from the experts from the Malay Peninsula, and the 

 imports to the United States, there is a promising field of demand 

 offered in the direction of the latter for the growth of Liberian 

 coffee and of such commodities as jute and other fibres, indigo, ginger, 

 and spices generally. 



Cohune Oil. 



The Cohune oil industry remain- yet dormant, if I except the use 

 for domestic and cooking purposes to which it is put among the families 

 of mahogany and logwood cutters. Two-fifths of the Colony, viz., 

 1,933,762 acres, are, it is estimated, uuder this graceful native "Prince 

 of Wales " palm. If we allow 25 trees to the acre, a very low average, 

 and 1,000 nuts as the annual yield per tree, and accept that 100 nuts 

 yield a quart of oil, this dormant industry, if awakened to full activity, 

 would yield 276,537 tons of oil at a price per ton appreciably above 

 that which obtains for cocoanui oil, to which it is superior. 



Pine Products. 

 Then, again, apart from its resinous property, which was turned, I 

 understand, to profitable account some years back, the native pine is 

 estimated to cover a third of the Colony, or, 1,613,136 acres, and to 

 average 100 trees per acre on our great southern pine-ridge. Its wood 

 is said to almost equal that of the yellow pine of the United States, 

 which, in the beginning of 1888, was reported to have been nearly 

 worked out and might, in part, have to be replaced by the local pine. 

 The growth on the older pine-ridges of the Colony may, when opened 

 up, prove of sufficient age and diameter to make it worth while to have 

 attention turned to adding this timber to our exports, as can doubtless 

 be done with many other valuable woods as yet unknown. 



Cocoa-Nuts and Henequen. 



The coral patches and marine islets we know as " Cays," that fringe 

 to the eastward the waters of this Colony, offer a condition of site 

 exceptionally favourable for the growth of henequen and the cocoanut 

 tree, described as the most tender of palms as regards frost, the friend 

 of tropical agriculturists. The area of such Cays is given approximately 

 as 112,527 acres, which might be turned to much more profitable uses 

 and yield than obtain at present. With even a quarter of such acreage 

 suitable for the culture of such products as eocoanuts and henequen, ir 

 could be covered with plantation-; of the former numbering 2, S 13,200 

 trees with an annual yield of at least 100 nuts (a low aver 

 gating 2*1,320,000, worth, at the current rate per thousand, 1,406,600/., 

 I might explain that such an aggregate of nuts on the basis of 1 lb. from 

 7 nuts or 14 per cent, fibre, should yield 18,000 tons of fibre that would 

 realise in the London markets from 30/. to 10/. per ton, according as it 

 is suited for brushes, mats, or stuffing. 



The annual export from the Colony of cocoanuts during the past five 

 years has averaged in number 1,651,933, and in value $32,505. 



