The value this year exceeds that in any year during the last ten years though the amount exported 



was not as large as in 1888. , . z -^i, i.u 



Venezuela, Columbia, and Hayti, having declined to enter into reciprocity agreements with the 

 United States in connection with the McKinley Bill, their coflfee, exported to the States, amounting in 

 the total to 76,096,700 lbs., becomes subject to a duty of 3 cents per lb. 



Shipment of coffee in parchment is strongly recommended to small settlers, who have no mill ot 

 their own They will find it much more economical than to pay, as some of them do, as much as 3s. 

 per bushel for milling. The remarks made by the Collector of Taxes in Trclawny is that, all the cof- 

 fee (which was but an average crop) was badly cured, no care being taken iu its preparation at all, 

 which means a great loss of money to the producers and the Island. 



Corn Imported. 



Imported. Bushels. Values. 



1892 178,357 £26,735 15 6 



1891 212,898 31,934 14 



i Yr. 1890 71,771 10,765 15 3 



1889 108,586 16,287 18 



1888 90,341 18,068 7 



1887 83,760 16.752 



Corn cannot be grown here as cheaply as in the States, and therefore the importation will probably 

 increase as the means of communication between ports and remoter parts of the Island are improved. 



Exported. 



233 pieces and 



i Yr. 



1892 

 1891 

 1890 

 1889 

 1888 

 1887 



West Indian Ebony or Coccus Wood 



Tons. 



Cwt. 



Values. 





241 



19 



£640 6 



6 



500 



3 



1,375 8 



3 



150 



17 



377 2 



6 



383 



2 



956 15 







57 



5 



143 2 



6 



46 



5 



115 12 



6 



13 



^..v...... ^^^^^^ ., only valuable when it can be supplied in large pieces. 



Attention should be paid to clearing this wood of the parasites by which it is so liable to be covered. 



Exported. 



Fustic. 

 Tons. Cwt. 



Values. 



1892 

 1891 

 ^ Yr. 1890 

 1889 

 1888 

 1887 



677 6 

 950 1 

 655 

 793 8 

 2,463 8 

 4,181 5 



£2,031 18 

 2,612 12 9 

 1,768 10 

 2,142 3 7 

 7,390 4 



12,543 15 



Exported. 



Ginger. 

 Cwt. Qr. Lbs. 



Values. 



1892 

 1891 

 \ Yr. 1890 

 1889 

 1888 

 1887 



16,272 2 11 

 10,885 2 21 

 4,948 17 

 8,952 1 1 

 10,222 13 

 9,927 2 



^640,681 9 10 

 24,492 15 11 

 11,133 6 9 

 18,615 8 9 

 19,462 18 2 

 17,789 4 6 



The export of Ginger has taken an immense stride during 1892, and the value per cwt. has also 

 increased. 



The growing and curing of ginger is an industry admirably suited to small settlers, while the 

 preparation of preserved ginger is one which may well be recommended to the notice of the Women's 

 Self-Help Society. Ilints on ginger are given in Bulletins Nos. 26 and 29. 



Fihre. 



The cultivation and preparation of Sisal Hemp is one of the most important amongst new indus- 

 tries. Extracts from reports full of details for the practical planter, written by Mr. James M. Roe on 

 the Bahamas Plantations and by Mr. C. R. Dodge, Fibre Expert for the XJaited States, are publish- 

 ed in Bulletin No, 24. It is not a cultivation for the small settler. Not less than 200 acres should 

 form a plantation, and perhaps not less than 500 acres can be worked economically. The plantation 

 should be in such a situation that roads and tramways can be easily made through the whole extent. 

 At Hope, planters can see for themselves all that concerns the practical cultivation. 



The question of machinery for extracting the fibre is not one that is at present of pressing mo- 

 ment for the island, but enquiries are constantly made by me as to the progress of improvement in ma- 

 chines, and the invention of new processes, A report on the Weicher Machine was given in Bulletin 

 No, 22. Hon, Captain Jackson, Colonial Secretary in the Bahamas, informs me that Albee Smith is 

 improving his machine, that Van Buren'a is very like Kennedy's, and that much is expected of an in- 

 vention by Forbes, — a process of extraction by steam in closed cylinders. Correspondence is also main- 

 tained on the subject with Mr. C. R. Dodge. 



