THP TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
Novimber I, 1H90.] 
323 
1889 respectively 
Anuatto 
Arrowroot 
Beeswax 
Oattle, 11-' at 
Oocoa 
Cocoiuits 
Ooffee 
Oinohona bark ... 
Fruit, bananas... 
„ limes 
„ mangoes . 
„ oranges... 
„ pineapples 
„ shaddocks 
Ginger 
Hides 
Honey 
Horses and Mule 
Lancewood spars 
Limejuice 
Pimento 
Rum 
Sheep’s wool 
Sticks (walking) 
Succades 
Sugar 
Tamarinds 
Tobacco, cigars. 
„ (unmanu- 
factured) ... 
Tortoise shell ... 
Turtle 
„ (prepared 
and dried) 
Wood, bitter ... 
„ ebony 
,, fustio 
„ lignum vitse 
„ logwood ... 
Yams 
Amiatto 
Arrowroot 
Beeswax 
Cattle, neat 
Cocoa 
Coconuts 
Coffee 
Cinchona bark ... 
Fruit, bananas... 
„ limes 
„ mangoes . 
„ oranges... 
„ pineapples 
„ shaddocks 
Ginger 
Hides 
Honey 
Horses and Mule 
Lancewood spars 
L mejuioe 
Pimento 
Rum 
Sheep’s wool ... 
Sticks (walking) 
■ Succades 
Sugar 
Tamarinds 
Tob<cco, cigars 
„ (unmanu- 
factured) 
Tortoise shell ... 
Turtle 
„ (prepared 
and dried) ... 
Wood, bitter ... 
,, ebony ... 
„ fustic ... 
,, lignumvitje 
„ logwood... 
Yams ,,, 
may be taken 
1888. 
524.429 R> 
27 cwts. 2 qrs. 21 lb 
1,933 cwts. 1 qr. 21 lb 
79 
4,750 cwts. 0 qr. 6 lb 
5,909,301 (number) 
98,965 cwts. 2 qiv. 3 lb 321,440 2 
Value 
£ s. 
3,583 11 
38 3 
4,822 15 
790 0 
10,640 2 
4,015 (number) 
3,093,393 bui:ches 
634 barrels 
299,584 (number) 
47,910,177 (number) 
9,812 dozens 
10 barrels 
10,222 cwts. 0 qr. 13 lb 
277,828 lb 
1,680 cwts. 1 qr. 
100 (number) 
7,921 (number) 
85,963 gallons 
66,559 cwts 2 qrs. 2 ttj 
1,868,490 gillons 
19,4,8 lb 
16, 8“^2 loose, 628 bundles 434 12 
73 cwts. 0 qrs. 22 lb 469 14 
490,480 cwts. 0 qr. 251b 288,402 7 
4,939 lb 
7,008 lb 
20,682 10 10 
3 
0 
9 
0 
0 
8 
0 
0 
0 
6 
0 
0 
6 
8 
9 
0 
8 
0 
0 
9 
0 
0 
151 7 
270,671 17 
317 0 
268 9 
64,673 14 
1,471 16 
6 0 
19,462 18 
6,788 2 
1,344 4 
2,377 0 
2,383 15 
2,865 8 
44,727 19 
202,419 15 
323 12 
90 
3,504 
2,008 lb 
2,688 (number) 
8,587 lb 
218 tons 10 cwts 
57 tons 5 cwts. 
2,463 tons 8 cwts. 
20 tons 13 cwts. 
100,901 tons 6 cwts. 
28,194 cw' s. 1 qr. 
1889. 
455,874 lb 
7 cwts. 1 q". 14 lb 
1 OlScwts. 0 qr. 22 lb 
26 
5,248 cwts. 3 qrs. 19 lb 
4,831,615 
578 11 0 
4,244 10 0 
1,132 
437 
143 2 
7,390 4 
61 19 
353,154 11 
11.277 14 
3,798 19 
11 6 
4,571 11 
260 0 
10,581 16 
15,219 11 
6 10 
0 0 
84,606 cwts. 0 qr. 8 lb 291,383 6 
3,321 (number) 66 0 
2,881,313 bunches 252,114 17 
701 barrel- 350 10 
170,988 (number) 100 19 
35,394,271 (number) 51,321 13 10 
8,292 6-12 dozens 1,036 11 
33 barrels 16 10 
8,952 cwts 1 qr. 1 lb 18,615 8 
260,641 ft 6,516 0 
1,248 cwts 1 qr. 2 ft 1,248 8 
67 (numbfr) 3,426 0 
8,062 (number) 2,821 14 
77,745 gallons 3,239 7 
46,179 cwi.s 3 qrs. 21 lb 47,842 8 
1,374.931 gallons 137,493 2 
23,031 11) 384 13 
171,144 loose, l,303bundles 2,576 11 
48 cwt. 3c|is. 13 lb 197 3 
323,238 cv ts. 1 qr. 1 lb 244,368 2 
1,775 lb 32 kegs 
4,4794 ft 
1,693 II) 
3,673 lb 
2,742 lb 
12,069 1b 
649 tons, 19 cwts 
383 tons 2 owts 
793 tons 8 cwts 
446 tons 19 cwts 
116,454 tons 
6,149 owts 0 qr. 16 lb 
45 15 
2,799 13 
79 13 0 
1,469 4 0 
5,007 14 0 
1,529 17 
1,299 18 
956 16 
2,142 3 
1,251 9 
375,226 10 
8,074 11 
The new struggling indu.stries in the above list will 
be noticed. Tobacco makes no way at present. The 
differ, nee in the export of yams between the two 
years suggests an unfavourable season for roots and 
ground provision. Upon the whole, the above table 
presents a state of things whicli is certainly capable of 
great improvement. The valuable and historic indus- 
try of sugar, for in.'-tauco — an expensive product 
requiring large capital for expenditure, principally in 
wages enjoyed by the industrial classes — should not be 
allowed to die out while Englishmen eat every year 
nearly a million tons of beet root sugar, produced by 
foreign labour, and aided by foreign State bounties. 
A careful consideration of the above figures will show 
that there is much to be done, not only in maintaining 
existing industries but in planting new ones, a number 
of which have been suggested, and will be referred to 
later on ; and it is for the purpose of calling attention 
to the undeveloped agricultural weal ih of the island 
that an exposition of its capabillities is so much 
desired. 
As the exhibition is primarily a display of Jamaica 
products, it was opportune on the part o! the Governor 
to issue a “ Message to the people,” recommending 
local effort in every part of the island. His Excellency 
mentions that prizes will ba offered for samples of the 
following, among many other things, grown or made by 
the people Sugar-canes, cacao, kola, bananas, oranges, 
ground provision, coconut, Sisal hemp, Manilla hemp, 
tobacco, cigars, cinchona, coffee, peppers, ginger, 
pimento, rum, logwood, fustio, aunatto, castor oil, 
coconut-oil, oattle and horses, sheep, pigs, poultry, 
birds, fishes, turtle, bees, carpentey, cabinet-making, 
basket-work, nets, mats, goldsmiths’ and silver work, 
models of cottage homes, boats, fancy work, &c. Greater 
researches for minerals are recommended. Gold, 
silver, and copper have been discovered in the 
Charing Gross mine, and ten tons of ore have 
been recently shipped to London. Special arrange- 
ments are also suggested for collecting large samples 
of the various rubber substances to be obtained 
from a number of trees. Prom the mineral, 
vegetable, and animal kingdom, a great variety of raw 
material could be obtained, some that might locally 
be manufactured or prepared for consumption, and 
others useful to the manufacturer abroad. In the 
diff rent parishes are found limestones, sandstones, 
flagstones, marbles, road materials, sands, ochres, clays, 
ornamental and precious stones, gypsum, copper ores, 
lead, iron, zinc, cobalt, manganese, antimony, gold, 
and silver. Few countries are better supplied with 
building-stone, wliich varies in degree from the finest 
marbles to coarse but enduring sandstones. Fine 
marbles of different patterns and colours are found in 
many parts. There is a great extent of granite rocks. 
Jamaica is rich in fibres, and a serious attempt is 
to be made to utilise them for several purposes- 
Bamboo and megass (or the sugar-cane after crushing) 
might become important for paper making. In the 
even of the Esparto grass failing, as was at one 
time feared, a substitute becomes very important. I 
have some excellent specimens of paper stock and 
writi ng paper, made some years ago by Mr. Rouiledge 
from bamboo and megass. There are many other u-t s 
for the fibres found in Jamaica. What is wanted is 
a good and iuexpensive machine for iheir extraction. 
The institute of Jamaica has offered a prize of £50 
for the best set of machines which may be shown at 
the Exhibition. I have communicated with the princi- 
pal English and foreign manufacturers upon the basis 
of information forwarded by Mr. Morris, of Kew. It 
might be interesting to quote some extracts : — 
“ The set of machinery might iuclu le a banana 
machine, as well as others. The banana machine 
should be portable and simple, adapted for the t.x- 
pressiou of water from the stem of the banana, to be 
constructed especially for the use of small plantations, 
and at a cost so as to be placed within reach of 
small cultivators. 
The following native and other fibre plants are 
already found in Jamaica, and machines are desired 
to clean the leaves or stems of any of them. 
7. Aloe Family, — 1. American aloe {Ayave amcricana). 
2, Keratto {Agave Morrisii). 3, Sisal hemp or hone 
