directions should be left. After this, it will be better seen what
may be necessary to be done to each individual tree; neither should
the shade trees be forgotten; as a general rule, they are
prejudicially thick.

By attending to this, I am quite satisfied that a very material
increase in the produce will be seen; indeed, I may say that on this
depends the chief difference of 1¼ lb. and 11 lbs. per tree; for I
consider it a very fair inference, that the average obtained here
can be realised in any other place in this island, and to any
extent, under the same circumstances of light and air, unless on
very poor soil, of which we fortunately have but little.

At twenty-four feet apart there would be seventy-five trees per
acre, or 250 per quarrée. This, at 11 lbs. per tree, gives 2,750
lbs. of dried cacao per quarrée, at 5 dollars per 100 lbs., gives
137 dollars 50 cents gross; deducting 80 dollars per quarrée
expenses, leaves 57 dollars 60 cents net profit. Thus an estate of
120 acres, or 36 quarrées, would contain 9,000 trees, at 11 lbs. per
tree will give 33,000 lbs. of cacao, at 5 dollars gives 4,350
dollars gross per annum; deducting 80 dollars per quarrée (a much
more liberal sum than is at present laid out), leaves a net balance
of 1,950 dollars, or 16 dollars 25 cents per acre.

Now this, it must be remembered, would be the produce from 9,000
trees, and from an estate containing only 36 quarrées of land (which
cannot be considered a large one); what, then, might be expected
from estates containing 40,000 trees?

I have been recently favoured with the following average return of