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we are making all our own palm-oil ; and when 
it rains so that the children can not work on the 
farm I have them cracking palm-nuts. We sell 
the kernels at five shillings per bushel, in cash. 
My next report will show a few shillings for 
kernels ; and when we get fixed we will make 
palm-oil soap, and sell it. Next dry season I 
shall sell some arrowroot and some ginger; also, 
some cassava. We have sold some cassava al- 
ready. Everything on the farm looks well, except 
the corn and cotton. I do not count much on 
them this year, but I shall not give them up. We 
shall get some cotton. I have sent a sample to 
England, to see w^hat it is worth there. Our 
children are living almost altogether on farm- 
products — cassava and sweet-potatoes. We have 
a good lot of sweet-potatoes. 
I am now setting hedge-fence, — setting posts 
and tying palings to them to protect the hedge 
until it grows. I am planting the Bahama-grass 
for pasture. I shall keep sheep and cows as soon 
as the fences are completed. I keep a watchman 
now, who carries a gun, and looks after things 
generally at night. The leopards are still very 
numerous. 
I think you need have no fears about the indus- 
trial farm being a failure. How long does it take 
to get a farm so that it pays in America, wliere 
