AGRICULTURE IN MALACCA. 
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No other expense will be necessary for the first year. The clear- 
ers will be allowed to plant paddy during that year, the owner 
receiving one-third of the produce as his share, which according to 
the estimate already giving for Paddy cultivation will be about 
four coyans, equal in value to Drs 80, leaving only Drs 7 b as the 
first year’s expense. 
The second year’s disbursement may be as follows : 
Cost of 12 Chinese immigrants for one year .... 
Chinese Overseer. 
Implements (not including ploughs). 
Nuts 40,000 at 50 cents per mille. 
Houses for coolies * * * * . 
Seeds. 
Drs 329. 92 
60 
23 
20 
30 
12 , 
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50 
Drs 472. 42 
'Deduct. 
Produce of Paddy this year averaged at 20 
coyans........ Drs- 400 
One third of this amount to Chinese coolies 
and Overseer. „ 133. 
267. 
Drs. 205. 42 
Balance of expense for 2nd year. 
Third year . 
Chinese immigrants.. ...Drs. 329. 
Ditto Overseer.. .. . 
92 
Ten Buffaloes at Drs 15 
Ten ploughs 
Six Harrows 
500 gantangs of seed 
Deduct. 
Full produce this year 37 \ coyans 
at Drs 20 per coyan. 
One third of this to coolies and 
Overseer. 
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60. 
150. 
30. 
3. 
12. 40 
Drs 585. 42 
Drs 750. 
tt 
250. 
-500 
Balance of 3rd year’s expense.Drs. 85. 42 
After the paddy crop this year they may also be made to raise a 
crop of sweet potatoes and kladi, and to rear a number of wholesome 
pigs for the market, which, besides bringing you income more than 
sufficient for the disbursements, will also most materially improve 
your dung pits. 
Fourth year as the third. 
In the fifth year your plants will be more than three years old, 
and they will require more earth for the roots, so that only half of 
