, 1874-05-02

be the centre of the whole. The smaller brush
wood were at once set fire to, the larger left
upon the ground for future dealing with.
Meantime these fallen trees shelter the young
coffee plants from the heat of the sun, and are
considered by him as a protection to his plant
ing operations. Wherever a picket was driven
THERE coffee was planted either by selected
berries, or IN the shape of young plants pro-
cured from an old abandoned plantation in the
neighbourhood. He has been most successful
SO far, his planting promising beyond his ex-
pectations SO soon as the May seasons shall have
indicated what plants are to be permanently left
to form the plantation, there will be twenty
thousand coffee trees for future growth, and it is
gratifying to state that the prospect at this mo-
ment warrants our speaking in the highest terms
of the present condition of the plantation.
While the above operations we're being carried
out, Mr.. Cohen planted the t~hirty-six acres
with Red Beans (at intervals between the Coffee
trees) and from these be realised a crop of three
hundred bushels, which be sold at los per
bushel, the purchasers rushing eagerly into the
heart of the forest to buy them on the spot
when they were thrashed, SO singularly fortunate
was he in producing a far better quality of bean
than was ever before seen in the precinct. At
this moment also there is advanced (the great
err portion in the curing house, the remainder
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Tobacco, reared upon the 10 acres of land out
side the sc in Coffee and Bean culture. Nor is
this all. No longer living upon sufferance in
the old tenement alluded to, Mr. Cohen has Q.
rected a largo building presently to be the
store-hoUsoo OF the property sixty feet in length
by thirty-three in width, which is built entirely
boards, shingles, joists, uprights and laths-
of wood felled on the land worked up into
building purposes on the spot; not a foot of
white or pitch pine, or Of any imported or soft
wood having been used in its erection. He has
REFUSED an offer Of e. per 100 lbs. for his To-
bacco (of which the yield will be somewhat
over hundred bales of one hundred pounds
each) samples already sufficiently advanced in
cure warranting the assertion that it will be the
premium Tobacco of Jamaica, as rivalling any
Havana leaf ever grown. Of pumpkins there
is on the land such an enormous yield that he
finds it difficult to store them, and he has been
compelled to purchase pigs in order to con-
sumo them, he not having carts or stock to
send them to market. To cap the climax of
this pregnant instance of enterprise, it shonld
be mentioned that Mr.. Cohen is an Englishman
who has passed his Gath year, (having resided
ID Cuba 81 years. with, we regret to add, not
too strong a constitution, yet with energy and
resolution sufficient for twenty young men. His
sons are all Cubans can scarce speak a word
VI LhSlISu yet lnOu9n Clelr latn0r is a wealthy
man, are all accustomed to, and love a planting
life. To him belongs the head-work to them
the carrying out his plans each one labouring
from daylight to dark with a vim and zeal it
were we'll our Creoles could aspire or attain to.
Strong, stalwart hands, they neither smoke q
cigar nor (like their father) touch spirits. II
is this earnest determination of bread winning
manual and agricultural pursuits that places
them in such marked contrast with Jamaicans
in their station of life. It is their earnest de-
termination to achieve independence that we
bring to notice as worthy emulation. What
right, with the above example before it has ia
maica to be poor in the midst of Wealth :
Here arc men who will reverse the maxim, and
in six years time be positively wealthy in the
midst of idle poverty-idlencss standing by
and letting golden opportunity glide away from
it. This coming year Mr.. Cohen proposes to
clear one hundred more acres, ten of which will
be planted in Coffee and Cocoa. Mr., Cohen's
calculations are extremely moderate. If in the
fourth year, his Coffee trees bear, and yield
by one quarter of a pound of berries each tree,
his first years harvest will be five hundred
bags of one hundred pounds each, equivalent
to gl,750; the next years crop Of fresh trees
Of the second years planting giving the same
return his tobacco being doubled in proportion
progressively and yearly.