The Cultivation of Cocoa. 
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Brought forward ... 
BUILDINGS. 
Dwelling house for proprietor or manager 
Dwelling house for overseer 
Houses for 50 labourers, at $70 each... 
Hospital 
Drying shed with rolling roof 
Trays and fittings 
Fermenting chamber of brick 
Droogerie 50 feet x 30 ... 
PLANTAIN CULTIVATION EXPENSES. 
Purchase of 211,750 plantain suckers at 2 cents.. $ 4,835 
Loading and transporting ... ... 381 15 
Planting suckers, each bed 7 rows parallel to small 
drains, at 10 feet distance = 211,750 suckers at 
70 cents per 100 ... ... ... 1.482 25 
8 
10,800 

8 3,000 

750 

3,500 

1,000 

, 1,000 

200 

■ 400 

300 

10,150 
COCOA CULTIVATION EXPENSES. 
Cutting 8,000 Brythrina suckers, 8 feet in length, 
at 40 cents per 100 ... ... ...Sg 
Transporting ... 
Planting Brythrina suckers, 2 feet deep, one row 
in the centre of each bed, at 45 feet distance ; 
28 x 250 = 7,000 suckers at $1 20 per 100 
Cutting cassava suckers, 250 bundles at 12 cents... 
* Ploughing : 244 circles per acre (20 feet distance, 
4 rows parallel to small drains) = 61,000 circles 
at 40 cents per 100 
Planting cocoa beans with the requisite cassava 
sticks, at 28 cents per acre 
32 
5 12 
30 
244 
70 
SUPPLYING AND WEEDING. 
Purchase of 70,600 plantain suckers at 2 cts. each..SS 1,412 
141 
494 20 
60 
Transporting 
Planting 70,600 suckers at 70 cents per 100 
Cleaning trenches 
Weeding young cocoa and supplying with beans, 
at 28 cents per acre = $70 for 250 w acres, 4 times 
per year 
Weeding 250 acres of plantains at SI 52 per acre, 
5 times 
280 
1,900 
6,098 40 
465 12 
Carried forward 
4,287 20 
8 31,800 72 
* In this estimate the beds are reckoned as of the usual width, viz., 37 feet instead 
of 30 as stated in the essay. They can therefore be planted with four rows of 
cocoa at a distance of 20 feet instead of three rows at 16 feet. The beds being 
wider, the shade trees must be put closer— 45 feet. 
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