200 TKMMINCK’s GENERAL VIEW OF THE DLTCft 
Hons less of coffee trees than in 1840. Tins diminution is merely 
nominal, seeing that these trees have served to replace those which by 
their small produce, have to be suppressed in the low lands of the 
Residency of Baglen. On the contrary the increase of trees planted 
from 1830 to 1840 amounts to very nearly the same number of 7 
millions. 
3rd. That in the season of 1842 there was planted nearly 20 mil¬ 
lions of plants ; of which 12 millions are to serve to replace the old 
trees, and 8 millions are destined to extend this culture. It is cal¬ 
culated that this island will very soon be in a condition to produce a 
million of piculs or 125 millions of fbs. (Dutch) of Coffee. Previous 
to 1830 Java scarcely exported as much as 40 millions of lbs. 
Culture or Sugar. 
1840. 
1841. 
Residencies in which sugar has to be pro- 
duced,.. 
13' 
13 
Number of sugar manufacturies,.. 
99 
111 
Families employed in sugar plantations, . 
148,247 
150,895 
Extent of fields in which the cane has to 
be calculated in bahits of 71 decametres. 
31,989 
33,668 
Quantity of sugar obtained in piculs, 
752,657 
734,427 
Extent of new plantations for the crop of 
1842 in bahus 
34,382 
37,722 
Average quantity in piculs, of sugar oh- 
fain per bahu ,. . 
23-| 
21i 
The results obtained in these two years hare generally been very 
unsatisfactory for this branch of culture. Heavy and continuous 
rains, the imperfection of mills and of mechanics are the causes. The 
canes grow better and produce more abundantly in the Eastern parts 
of the Island, than in the other residencies. 
It is a very general opinion that this branch of agricultural industry 
will be able to furnish, for the island of Java only, an export of a, 
million of piculs of Sugar; already the calculated produce for the 
year 1842 amounts to 856 thousand piculs of the quantity anticipa¬ 
ted. The improvement of machines and processes, the new con¬ 
tracts established with the cultivaterc 3 and the care which is bestowed 
to obtain the. most perfect qualities, will serve to give a considerable 
development to this culture. 
