Sept. r, 1893.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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Now that I have made things clear how this variety 
can be planted with success in Barma, and also 
proved that it is to be a lasting and standing pro- 
duct of value, I am able to state what can be done 
to bring it into bearing. It can be planted fairly 
well at the cost of R 120 per acre, and brought 
into bearing for 11350 with care, if all that I have 
pointed out here is properly attended to, and bear 
in mind that it thrives best not beyond the voice 
of man, that it must have daily attention for its 
protection from cattle and it must not be knocked 
about, but tended to with care. After it comes into 
bearing see what a gold mine it is to be. I have 
Eointed out already that I have Individual trees 
earing i cwt. husk or cherry coffee per tree. Now 
if we will take it at Burmese measure you will un- 
derstand this better. Say one basket per tree, and 
to take this at 8 viss per tree of husk or cherry 
coffee. Another thing must not be lost sight of here, 
i.e., that the Liberian coffee contains far more per- 
centage of husk than the Arabian, or we will call 
it Ceylon cofl'ee. 1 point out this not to mislead any 
one on this important point, which has again and 
again been misunderstood even by expert planters 
who have not had experience in the manipnlation 
of this product. Now we will take, instead of 8 viss 
to the tree, only 1 viss. Mind I am now speaking 
of clean coffee or rice coffee i^repared for the shop 
or London market, i.e., say that 8 viss of husk only 
produce 1 visa clean coffee. Now 1 viss of clean 
coffee brings at the present moment in Tavoy R2-8-0 
per viss: Now we will take the lowest percentage 
of trees per acre leaving allowance for shade trees 
and roads and drains, &c., say, 600 trees per acre. 
See what this will bring in yearly, or again, to put 
it at the very lowest, put it at 5 viss per tree of 
clean coffee and value it at E2 per viss, and again 
flee what this will bring in per acre of cultivated 
coffee. This is about the lowest average and is the 
lowest amount which I have put down for information 
to the Government of India, which has been called 
for from me. I put down the very lowest, namely, 
896 pounds or 8 cwt. per acre. At the present moment 
clean coft'ee in London is selling at over 12it shillings 
or, say, i;6 sterling per cwt. See what this will 
oome to per acre, £48 sterling. I need not say 
more on this point as the very lowest average re- 
commends itself. 
We will now take £48, or say R600, allowing the 
rupee to revert to the value of Is, 8(/. Now R600 
will allow an expenditure of R300 per acre, and 
with this amount on an estate of 4(J0 acres much 
could be done to bring this variety into even greater 
perfection and allow expenditure on building roads, 
drains, dams, tools, machinery of all necessary sorts 
for irrigation purposes ; much can be done here by 
irriga'ion in the dry season. I have proved this, 
and this amount should allow a liberal amount for 
cultivation, such as luanuring with cattle mantire 
and compost, making new cattle sheds and roads 
for cart traffic and the purchase of pigs and cattle. 
I'igs could be fed on jack fruit and poonack from 
the rice-mills, such as paddy-dust, and after 
this liberal all wance the planter would have a proiit 
at the very least of R300 per acre yearly. I do not 
reconmieud the Ceylon coffee, i.e.. Coffte ATCibica to 
be planted below an elevation of at tne very least 
of 2,000 feet, and it will succeed much better at 
3,000 or 4,000 feet elevation. I planted 14 acres 
here; it gave a maiden crop and went out, i.e., died 
right out. 
You will see by this report that where the culti 
vation of Liberian coffee stops, Ceylon coffte begins. 
From 2,000 up to 6,000 Cey on coffee can be grown 
with this variety, but 1 do n"t consider ihe conditions 
in Burma yet ripe for tliis valuable cultivation. 
ShoQld planters wish to embark in this cultivation, 
let them do so by all means, but at their_own risk. 
I do not rcconuuend it for the reasons, fiist, of 
droad of the leaf disease ; it I think must have a 
time of rest for this evil to leave tiic coffee or work 
itself out by ultimate death of the trees where it 
exists, Where it does not exist it will again flourish 
aucl pay \Yell ia this coimtry, but the local Govei-n- 
ment ought not to recommend it as the time has 
not come as yet to recommend its cultivation again 
on a large scale. 
Besides, the present existing circumstances in this 
great country do not afford facilities to reach ele- 
vation. Take this into consideration. Where are 
your roads ? Nowhere. At this elevation I strongly 
recommend the cultivation of Liberian coffee, cocoa 
cardamom, cinnamon, croton oil trees, 'ginger' 
Colombo root, sapan wood, pepper, vanilla, and all 
manner of fruit- bearing trees for shade purposes. 
And above all, next to Liberian coffee, I would' 
strongly recommend cocoa for Burma, as the soil 
and conditions are suitable for its cultivation. 
The local Government ought to procure fresh 
cocoa pods for those that would give a guarantee to 
cultivate the same. As I have already remarked, it 
can be grown side by side and interplanted with 
the Liberian coffee as the great Lib* rian trees would 
answer for shade for the valuable cocoa.— //aHwo/i 
Gazette. 
THE WEST INDIAN COUHTS AT THE 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 
THE BAHAMAS. 
The first Bection of the West lodian department ia 
that occupied by the Bahamas. The exMbiteare not 
at present numerous, being represented only by a few 
epnoLiiens of fib:e, coral, woods, and certain seeds and 
specie?, &c. A very attractive feature in this section 
is, however a ooUeotioD of pictures and photographs. 
These illustrate the remote past, a century ago, and' 
the presant day, and serve as a picture history of 
the colony. 
JAMAICA. 
The whola of the West Indian section is inatalled 
in the west lialf of the intermediat* gallery, the greater 
pert of it being occupied by the Jamaica aecttou. 
'Ihe entrance to the Court is under a fine screen 
the pauels of which are beautifully inlaid with woods' 
from the colony, and cannot fail to be admired by the 
vibi'ors. At the eutranca to the Court there are two 
casts, thirty feet long, largely given up to the recep- 
tion, on the aoath wall, of coffees, eugare, medicinal 
drugs, a large exhibit of the rums produced in the 
colony, spices, &o. The large and increasing impor- 
tation of these products from the island of Jamaica 
is well known. The island is very tightly classed as 
a verltabla garden, and the collection in this Court 
cinnot fail to more deeply impress the visitor with 
that view. 
Ia the case on the north wall is a large collection 
of tugnrs, not less than two hundred specimens to 
each (.f which is affixed a number. By referring to 
the lufortnation against that number, in the posses- 
sion of the Imperial Institute authuritiep, the whole 
of the details concerning each specimen can he giten 
— such as the estate and locality from which the 
sugar was imported, the price at which it can bo 
placed upon the London market-, quantitj imported tio 
The whole of these specimens will, as in the other 
B'!ctioii8, be replenished from time to time as new 
consignments arrive, so that it will not be a mere 
collection of obsolete samples, but praotioally a living 
museum, where the lateet information concerning 
each p-rticular product can be obtsiued and turned 
to accLunt. 
Noticeable also ia the collection of turtle in various 
forms, as used for food and other purposes. The 
eoouomio products of the colony are also shown in a 
number of beantifully coloured drawings, tastefully 
fraiutd and armnged upon the screen at the weal 
end of the section. This, no doubt, will be much 
admired. 
The oentTe of the court is occupied by a trophy of 
the timbers of thp colony in logs, one B!^e fimply 
plautd and puliohed, which arraugemenl uut uuly 
shows the outside of the tree, but also a orofs section, 
and the heait-'irood. 
