72 Agriculture in Mexico. 



The yield of cacao, coffee, tobacco, and vanilla is given as 

 follows : — 



bs. £ 



Cacao ----- 1,298,000 57 ? ooo 



Coffee 48,054,000 828,000 



Tobacco - 19,659,000 299,000 



Vanilla ----- 518,000 19,000 



From the preceding figures, and others of less importance 

 furnished, the following table can be formed of the value of 

 the vegetable productions of the country in the year 1897 : — 



Value. 



Cereals ^11,367,000 



Vegetables -------- 1,892,000 



Cacao, coffee, tobacco, vanilla - 1,203,000 



Sugar-cane (sugar, molasses, etc.) - 1,569,000 



Roots and tubers - - 556,000 



Textile fibres - ------- 2,317,000 



Alcohols and fermented liquors - - - - 1,607,000 



Products of the vine (wine and spirits) - - - 38,000 



Oleaginous plants 86,000 



Dye-woods 238,000 

 Tanning plants ------- 28,000 



Gums and resins ------- 69,000 



Medicinal plants 1,000 



^"20,971.000 



If to these figures the value of the production of wood and 

 timber, given as /J 1,786,000, is added, the total is raised to 

 £22,757,000. 



The inquiry into urban and rural property gave a sum of 

 £66,032,000 as the value of the territorial property of the 

 Republic, a figure which, it is thought, might safely be 

 raised to £80,000,000 in order to arrive at an estimate of the 

 real value of the properties in question. It is to be remem- 

 bered that these figures represent only the " fiscal " value of 

 the property, an amount which is always notably below the 

 reality. The total value of the urban property amounts to 

 £29,825,000; that of the rural to £36,207,000. In many of 

 the States the value of the urban and rural property is about 

 equal ; the chief exception is the Federal District, where 

 the urban property is estimated at £11,545,000, and the 

 rural at £2,296,000. On the other hand, the rural property 

 in Hidalgo is valued at £1,748,000, and the urban at only 

 £197,000. The State in which the value of the rural pro- 

 perty is greatest is Guanajuato (£3,279,000), followed by 

 Jalisco (£3,130,000). From the extent of the Republic, and 

 the fertility of many parts, a greater value of rural property 



