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•When the object is to know, by approximation, the value of the rural 
productions, whether'spontaneous or from labor, the calculation should 
include the value of the woods. To do so, we have made use of certain 
facts, but also of the following suppositions : 
The value of the wood exported in 1829, was - - .^155,563 
Suppose only ten times greater the quantity consumed on 
the island - . - - “ , ■ ~ 1,555,630 
The charcoal consumed has been valued already at - 2,107,300 
Total value of the produce of the woods 
^3,818,493 
But as this may belong to the department of commerce, we shall sup¬ 
pose that the agricultural value be only one-tenth, or ^381,849. On the 
other hand, the annual cuttings of timber and firewood, for consumption 
of the interior, and for exportation, cannot be graduated at more than 
1-500th part of that standing, in woods, when the vast extent of this is 
considered •, and connecting this circumstance with the foregoing, the min¬ 
imum value of the woods of the island of Cuba will be equal to that of 
the agricultural annual income multiplied by 500, or ^190,924,500. 
Now, in continuance of the foregoing general calculation, the repre¬ 
sentative value of the slaves and animals musthe estimated, which render 
productive the capital invested in lands, engines, utensils, and plantations. 
The value of these I have, calculated in the preceding articles, in the man¬ 
ner following: 
100,000 slaves in sugar and coffee estates, at ^300 - ^30,000,000 
31,065 do in smaller cultivation - - - 9,319,500 
7,927 do in tobacco - - - - 2,378,100 
Total value of 138,992 slaves, supposed useful, at ^300 >^41,797,600 
The others being supposed of little or no value. 
1,058,732 beeves and893,538 hogs existing in the original 
grazing grounds - . _ ^21,282,077 
140,539 oxen for labor and hauling - - - 7,026,950 
186,973 horses, supposing 20,000 employed in other 
private uses, separate from estates - ' - 9,348,650 
9,642 mules and asses, deducting 10,000, which may 
. be found in other occupations - - 771,360 
46,962 sheep, goats, &c. - - - - 187,848 
1,000,000 domestic breeding birds - - - 1,000,000 
Total value of animals - 
Recapitulation. 
Lands - - - 
Plants, including the woods - - - 
Buildings, engines, and utensils - - - 
Slaves - *- - - . _ 
Animals - - . - , ■ - 
Representative value of the agriculture 
b016,885 
^?94,396„300 
276,774,697 
55,603,850 
41,797,600 
39,616,885 
^508,189,332 
Representative value, of the capital invested ^317,264,832 
