(UUU, OR THE BETEL VINE. 7* 



mite the price of 100 bundle* is about 6 dollars; beyond 

 them, the average is abou! l\ both oil the island and in 

 Province VVellesley, for picked leaves. In the latter 

 district 50 cents, are given for 10?) bundles. The cost 

 of cultivation averages as follows : — * 



ONE ORLONG, FIRST COST. 



Value of laud ' 10 



Dicing, holing and planting 35 



6,000 posts & I J 100 00 



Implement 2 



Withes t 



2 coolies for 4 months, £> 8 dollars 04 



Cost, when the vines begin to yield, Sp. dollars 2A2 



ANNUAL PRODUCE, SECOND C03T. 

 Of 6.000 vines or 63,000 bundles Q> 50 cents 



<y/ 100 bundles ZV> 



Expense of cultivation and incidental 103 



Lowest rate of profit at the end of 20 months, Drs. 213 



Two hundred dollars are frequently given as rent 

 for6,000 plants, which, Mere the risk of biv prices left 

 out of the question, might be c msidnred as an enor- 

 m >us profit ; but, in fact, the risk is great. An nrlong- 

 covered with 0,000 flourishing betel vines will hardly 

 sell tor in >re than 360 Spanish dollars !! ISut the 

 dispr :ip trti'iu greater or less — according to circum- 

 stances— than the above, betwixt actual outlay ami rent, 

 a? id betwixt the rent and the market value, obtains 

 with refereuce to mostly every other kind of produce. 



Any very considerable increase to the present 

 a nouut of e iltivatbn of betel, without an increase iu 

 the de nand accompanying it — whieh, until the popu- 

 lation mu greatly advanced cannot be expected— * 



