Conx.— Modes of Cultivation}. 



\Tere the Pitrldie to lie converted into rice, the 

 profit would probabh be s onetimes diminished by 

 about IS Spanish dollars, as the 1 cost of unliusking 

 and winnowing the paddie would amount to To Spa- 

 nish dollars being 1 [ dollar the cooucha, alid especi- 

 ally as paddie and rice dp not always hear the same 

 illative value in the market. The price of 35 dol- 

 lars has been .1 *umed as that which has, fbr very 

 many > ears hack, been deemed a fair average onei 

 Whether it will continue to lull or rise* will depend on 

 events winch it is not easy u> foresee. But the proba- 

 bility is rather in favor of enhanced prices in the 

 t.ovan. At the end of the 2d. year, the clear profit by 

 the above estimate is 70 Sp. dollars after the Capital 

 has been returned and interest and all charges have 

 been deducted. For even subsequent year therefore 

 we have 



12 enyans of paddie @ 35 drs. ^p'coyau, Dis. f'2 » 

 Expense ol cultivation 7 „ 7G 



•3 J t 



Quit-rent and interest , . . . « |6 



total profit, Sp ( Drs. 329 

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iThis will be a profit of 16 dollars rfn orlong after 

 deducting interest on the outlay. This will nearly 

 correspond with the rent in hind received from the 

 best land. 



It will (fe borne m mind that the highest present 

 fate of productiveness has hern stated at 800 gimtangs 

 of paddie rtn orlong, which woidd admit of a net pro- 

 fit, on one orlong, of '2o^ Hp. dollars. If is probable 1 

 that a failure of the crop mav be looked for once in 

 ten or twelve years ; for in these i t - ions ih< re is evi- 

 dently a cycle of seasohs, although the cause is not 



