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up, are retained and carefully trained up tile prop, to 

 which they are tied by means of ligatures of some 

 strong creeping plants, such as the ukar mcedin. 



One Chinese, after the plantation has been formed, 

 can take care of two orlongs of land. The usual 

 mode is this : an advance is made by the capitalist t6 

 the labourer for building a house and for agricultural 

 implements ; he ihen receives two dollars monthly to 

 subsist on, until the end of the third year, when the 

 estate or plantation is equally divided betwixt the 

 Contracting parties. 



The Chinese, and even European cultivators used 

 formerly to engage the Chinese, who had just arrived 

 from China ; they paid off their passage-money, and 

 then allowed them two dollars monthly, for provisions* 

 for one year, with a suit of clothes, by which means 

 the cost of the labor of one man averaged about UvroC 

 dollars monthly ; but this plan is attended with risks. 



The cost attendant on the cultivation of two orlongs 

 of Kind, with pepper, for three years, — the Chinese 

 labourer receiving the usual hire of jioe Spanish 

 dollars monthly, — will be nearly as fallows:— 



Price of land, clearing and planting Sp.Drs. 40 



Quit-rent ©75 cents ^aimum, ^orlong, „ 9 



Two thousand plants „ 4 



Ditto diddap props, „ 6 



Implements, * <> 



House, » * „ 10 



Labor „ 200 



Interest, loosely calculated at » „ 30 



Total, Spanish Dollars, 305 

 In a very good soil, a pepper vine will yield about 

 Jth of a pound of dry produce at the end of the first 

 year { at the end of the second, about a quarter of a 

 pound, and at the expiration of the third, probably one 



