713 
AGRICULTURE IN MALACCA. 
Shaving allowance at 8 Cents per month each man Drs. 
Remittance to China at Drs. 4 each man.. 
Coarse clothing for 12 men... 
One Chinese Overseer at Drs. 5 per month...... 
Picked Nuts 7,000 at Drs. 12 per mill. 
A Cart and a Buffalo, and materials for four hous¬ 
es for coolies. 
Implements... 
tt 
tt 
tt 
tt 
tt 
tt 
11 . 
48. 
3. 
60. 
84. 
50. 
* 20 . 
52 
Dollars 663. 92 
Second year's Cost. 
Twelve Chinese immigrants. 
Drs. 
84. 
Rice .. 
tt 
115. 
Dried Fish. 
64. 80 
Tobacco. 
tt 
3. 63 
Shaving allowance.. 
tt 
11. 52 
Remittance to China... 
48. 
Coarse clothing.. 
tt 
3. 
Chinese Overseer... 
tt 
60. 
Tear and wear of buildings, carts, and 
implements. 
tt 
20. 
-409. 92 
Five following years at this rate. 
.2049, 60 
Total expenditure for seven years.. 
..Drs 3123. 44 
I have allowed twelve coolies in the above estimate, as I con¬ 
template employing them in the manner shewn hereafter, but 
should they not be required to be so employed, their number may 
then be reduced to eight or ten. The passage money of each cooly 
is also rated at 7 dollars, although it is often as low as 4 and 5 
dollars. The price of rice is upon the same principle take at 
Drs 46: as the adoption of these maximum average prices will 
compensate for unforeseen contingencies not included in the calcul¬ 
ation. 
This estimate is made upon a supposition that nothing else is to 
be cultivated in the intermediate spaces, but if the principle of 
rotation of crops be admitted to be an improver of the soil, as it is 
maintained in Europe, I w ould suggest (what I myself practise) 
the cultivation of culmiferous, leguminous and bulbous rooted 
plants in rotation, and of these chillies, kachang, sweet potatoes, 
yams, and pumpkins, are the favorites of the Chinese. It is ad¬ 
mitted that some of these by their broad leaves draw' much of their 
nourishment from the air, while the roots of others aid in dividing 
and pulverizing the hard clayey soil. The cultivation of [these 
plants will considerably lessen the expenses of the first four years. 
