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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [March r, i8Sz 
meet the market, whatever it may be, and still make 
money. The manager's figures may be faulty — I 
cannot vouch for them — but at least I have had 
them endorsed by several native est ite owners of my 
acquaintance, whose signatures are known at the 
Madras Bank and the O. 13. 0. Here they are: — 
Investment of a capital of £10,000, contributed by 20 
proprietors in sums of £500 each. 
Dr. £ s. d. 
To purchase of 2,000 acres of coconut 
ilu d cinnamon land, at E15 3,000 0 0 
„ Surveying 75 0 0 
„ Making roads (which require 20 
acres) 200 0 0 
,, House for superintendent 50 0 0 
,, Clearing 1,500 acres at E5 (net, ex- 
clusive of timber sold off) 750 0 0 
,, Plants for 750 acres coconuts (75 
per acre) 281 5 0 
Plants for 750 acres of cinnamon 
(3,000 per acre at E2) 225 0 0 
Setting 56,250 coconut plants at 3 
cents 168 1 6 
Planting 750 acres cinnamon at 
" R125 93 1 6 
Holing and covering do. 131 0 6 
Weeding 1,5U0 acres, 1st year, at 
£1 1,500 0 0 
10 watchers at £1 per month 120 0 0 
Superintendent's salary at £3 per 
month 
Total cost at end of the 1st year 
Weeding, watchers and superintendence, 
2nd year 
36 0 0 
Same for 3rd year, £ 1, 656 
,, 4th year, 1,656 
£6,629 
8 6 
1,656 
0 0 
£8,285 
8 6 
3,312 
0 0 
Cb. 
£11,597 8 6 
Bv crop of cinnamon in the 4th year 
562| bales at R37 50 p"r bale. ..£21,075 
Deduct cost of peeling at R16 ... 9,000 
1,207 10 0 
,, Crop 5 th year at 1 bale per acre, 
750 bales, at same price 1,612 10 0 
,, Crop 6th year the same 1,612 10 0 
.. 7ih vear, an increase of 25 per 
" cent 2,015 10 0 
Sth year, same rate of increase 2,418 10 0 
" „ 9th year, do. 2,821 10 0 
" ,, 10th year, at 3 bales per acre 3,225 0 0 
" First yield of coconuts on 750 acres 
" atE24nett 1,800 0 0 
£16,713 0 0 
In the 15th year the income will be 
For Cinnamon £3,225 0 0 
„ Coconuts 3,600 0 0 
OAWNPOEE EXPERIMENTAL FAEM : 
[The figu 
for cinnamo 
never chea] 
part of the 
—Cor. of Ceylon Times.] £6,825 0 0 
:e's look too good to be true. The market 
i is not very promising, while coconuts were 
, ; than now. No allowance is made for 
laud turning out unsuitable for cinnamon or 
aner planting, as in the case of the Hoirekelly 
estate: 2,000 full-grown coconuts per acre is, we sus- 
pect, a good average yield lor a property of 750 acres, 
and therefore we would put £2,500 instead of £3,600 
uh the full income from this source. So with cinna- 
mon, £1,000 off the above income would be a safer 
estimate, hut even then tho investment offers a very 
encouraging return. — Ed. T. A.] 
.rations at the Kanhpur ex- 
the past year records the 
nterestuig experiments with 
1 implements and machinery, 
ed five belonged to the nitio- 
plant ; liemp plant ; cattle- 
nbination with gypsum, and 
., bone-superphosptiate, boue- 
The report on 
perimental farm 
results of some 
manures and agri 
Of the manures 
genous class, viz., 
dung ; cattle-dung 
pouclrette ; and th 
dust and ashes of cattle-dung, were noD-nitrogenous. 
The crops to which the manures were applied were 
wheat and barley and sugarcane. 
In the case of the wheat and barley the restdt 
was to show the immeuse superiority of the nitro- 
genous over the non-nitrogenous manures, the former 
producing in every case a marked increase iu the 
yield, and in every case but on--, that of cattle-dung 
in combination with gypsum, an increase of the net 
profif, while the latter eitlier increased the yield in 
so slight a degree as to lead to a diminished profit, 
or actually diminished the yield. 
Among the nitrogenous manures, again, the greatest 
increase in the yield was produced by poudrette ; 
but green soiling, which c ime very near it in this 
respect, produced a slightly better pecuniary result. 
Next to green soiling and poudrette, came cattle-dung 
as regards increase both of yield and net profit. 
Among the non-nitrogenous manures the best results 
were obtained from ashes of cattle-dung, with an 
increase of grain of 56 per cent, but a slight decrease 
in net profit per acre ; while bone-superphosphate 
gave an increase of yield of 39 per cent, with a 
net pecuniary loss on the cultivation, and bone-dust 
gave a small increase in yield of grain with a decrease 
of straw aud a diminution of net profits to the ex- 
tent ot E2-2-4 per acre. 
Hemp wa3 found equally efficacious with indigo 
as a green manure, and in one case, in which two 
areas, each 200 square yards, the one green soiled 
and the other fallow, were put under wheat, the 
manured plot gave a better outturn, by 73 per cent 
as regards grain, and 24 per cent as regards straw, 
than the fallow. Experiments were also made with 
gypsum alone ; but the results were conflicting, 
360 lb. per acre in one case increasing the yield by 
45 per cent ; and 100 lb. and 200 lb. per acre actually 
diminishing the yield iu two other cases. 
The experiments on sugarcane were made with 
cattle-dung, guano, aud guauo followed after an 
interval of 12 months by bone-superphosphates. The 
best result was obtained with the last named, the 
outturn per acre with 6 maunds 24 seers super- 
phosphate being 2,584 lb. of sugar, and the net profit 
E94-4-3, and with 3 maunds 32 seers superphophat-s, 
1,591 lb. of sugar, with a net profit of E44 11. 
The next best result was obtained with cattle-dung, 
260 mds. per acre, producing a yield of sugar of 
1,9641b. with a profit of E56-10-3, and 130 mds. per 
acre, producing a yield of sugar of 1,542 lb. with 
a profit of E39-S-5. Guano alone, in the proportion 
of 12 mds. 35 seers to the acre, gave a yield of 
2,554 lb. of sugar, with a loss of E23-0-9, and in 
the proportion of 3 mds. 18 seers per acre a yield of 
1,848 lb. of sugar, with a profit of R10 12-10. 
Some inter sting experiments were carred out with 
different forms of winnowers, an English in.srtument 
(by Deli), a farm-made instrument and t ie ordinary 
native method being tried in competition. With a 
high wind the results as regards both time and 
econnmy was in f.vour of the English winnower, 
which winnowed 100 mds. of grain in 18b. 58m. at 
a cost of 15 - 4 as., the native method coming next, 
and doing the work in 28h. 37m. at a cost 18 - 7 as, 
while the arm-inade winnower took 32h. 16m. to do 
the work, at a cost of 21 - 1 as. In a calm, on the 
other, while the English winnower did almost equally 
