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humboldt's cub a. 



CHAPTER IX. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Increase of tithes an evidence of prosperity — Table of agricultural 

 wealth — Hatos and Potreros (note) — Pecuniary relations of plant- 

 ers and merchants — Rate of interest — Slave-trade — Coffee planting 

 — Product — Yield per hand compared with sugar — [Note. — 

 Decline of coffee planting — Causes.] — Tobacco planting — Former 

 monopoly — Product — Decline — Factoria — Prices — Quantity pur- 

 chased, and where sold — Expenses of Factoria — State of tobacco 

 planting in 1820-5 — [Note. — Obstacles to tobacco planting — 

 Future prospects — Present product — Prices — Error of Baron Hum- 

 boldt — Probable causes of superiority of the tobacco from the 

 Vuelta de Abajo.] — Other products in Cuba — Wheat — Wine — 

 Wax. 



The increase of tithes being everywhere one of 

 the most certain evidences of the increase of public 

 wealth, I present here a statement of their product 

 for fifteen years. The tithes and minor ecclesiastical 

 revenues of the diocess of Havana, were farmed for 

 terms of four years, as follows : 



1789 to 1792 



$ 792,386 

 1,044,005 

 1,595,340 

 1,864,464 



1793 " 1796 



1797 " 1800 

 1801 " 1804 



