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Brought forward . 
Dollars. 
50-00 
Clearing jungle ....... 
25-00 
Pegging 
6-50 
Price of plants ...... 
25-00 
Keeping clean ....... 
6-00 
Gathering crop . . . . . ■ . 
11-00 
Attending kiln ....... 
6-50 
Erection of kiln ....... 
25-00 
First year’s cost ....... 
265-00 
2nd year. 
Keeping clean ....... 
6-00 
Planting ........ 
10-00 
Gathering crop ....... 
11-00 
Attending kiln ....... 
6-00 
Miscellaneous ....... 
25-00 
Buildings ........ 
25-00 
Total . 
348-00 
Sale of two years’ crops, say 8,000 lbs. dry ginger 
at 15 cents per lb. .... . 
1,200-00 
Seen expenditure ...... 
348-00 
Profit . 
852-00 
The return, 8,000 lbs. per acre, seems very large com- 
pared with that of Jamaica and India. 
REGIONS OF CULTIVATION 
India . — It is cultivated in all the moister and 
warmer parts from the plains to 4,000 or 5,000 ft. in 
the Himalayas. In Malabar the best is said to be the 
produce of the district of Sherwood, situated to the 
south of Calicut. This part of India has been famous 
for its ginger for three centuries at least, its cultiva- 
tion here being mentioned by Linschoten (1596). 
In Bombay the crop is of considerable importance. 
In 1888 to 1889 it occupied 918 acres, of which 640 
were in Gujarat. In Bengal ginger is largely grown, its 
cultivation extending to Nepal and other localities on 
the border of the Himalayas, and that of Nepal is 
