Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-17
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Sr:-I have received yours, this eve
ming, and will endeavor to make satisfac-
tory answers.
/. All who have tried the Liberia coffee
as far as have heard, say that it is equal
in quality TO the Mocha or Java. b.
3. In September and October lines should
be collected, and the seed separated by
rotting and MASKING them. and sown in
nursery, and coffee preserved for seed in
in January: Feb and March, teams and
harrows prepared rice sown in April,
and the lime see dlings transplanted into a
hedge, and coffee sown in nursery
Two men will easily enclose forty acres
with hedge in ten days. After planting,
it requires scarcely any other care, and
will in eighteen months be sufficient to
prevent the passage of domestic animals.
When well grown It will prevent the in
trusion of monkies - as it is thickly set
with thorns. The price of a yoke Of
bullocks is about $50. The rice will be
cut in August, and the land Immediately
plowed, as the roots are small and soon
| decay, they will by this time obstruct the
plow much less than at first. Peanuts
may be planted at this season, ana are one
Of the best products for commerce-of so
quick growth and of so little expense. AT
| the first plowlng we may also raise corn,
| pumpkins, peas, millet, sweet potatoes,
Sc. La the next March the ground should
be plowed again, marked, and cross mark,
ed, and planted with corn. La May a
coffee plant is to be set in every thined
hill of every !hined low, being at the dis.
lance of about 10 feet. Afterwards the
same things may be produced, twice a
D year, until the coffee is four years old. by
blowing between the rows of coffee, which
NAV be MANFRED by the trash left on thu
;, ground. A. Five hundred trees per acre
# 5. Il always bears when cultivated on tn
81 year, though but a small quantity. 6
In seven years, think, from my observa
y ton of a number of trees about that age
J. they will average four pounds per tree
I'll We have not yet seen the tree attain il
full growth, but il doubtless requires abou
fifteen. wears. Z. The usual cost of clear
= inc land in Liberia, and introducing Gro
a, of rice, is about five dollars worth I
1T goods. at African prices, per acre. III
. natives are accustomed from their child
i hood to that kind of work, and will do q
much as a white man, for Is cents
e day, or three dollars per month; larg
- part of the country is covered only by
,el recent growth of wood, as the natives cles
- new falms every year. They neither q;
p nlows nor hoes, and when the bushes an
as trees are cut and burned, The land 10 pr
-, ma red to receive the seed of whatever the
cultivate. The usual allowance OF labo
d ers in the West Indies is. one slave to 9
Cd acre of coffee: but we have three wome
ad children, and natives for It's prosecutio
lis 10 all of which circumstances II Is We
well adapted.
Yours. &c. w. JOHNSON.
A Remarks on the ab0re by the Editor
10 Africa's LUmiRary.
a. The above correspondence explains
- self. It's object seems % have been 10
H'e slruct some who were preparing 10 il
ian crate 10 Liberia. We inserted it in Q
columns foI the special benefit of such
are already here, and who are DESTROYS
'no becoming more intimately acquainted "
Ike the resources Of the -particula
sis! in the agricultural line.
We conceive the whole production
be most marvellous. We will, howey
swallow entire animal, if the follow
facts are altached:-The cost Of clear
an acre Of land, and introducing croT
lseo generally from twenty dollars and upwa
ime % fifty dollars; and never less than fft