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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

Name: The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
Author: Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Botany, Economic

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                   |       |         |         |       |       |of cost|
                   |       |         |         |       |Excess |of free|
                   |       |         |         |       |of cost| over  |
                   |       |         |         | Cost  |of free| SLAVE |
                   |       | Average | Average |of pro-|labour | TRADE |
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                   |Average|  under  |  during |cwt. of|or com-|  the  |crease
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                   |produc-| or com- |  three  |  at   | labor,|Brazil |in the
                   | tion  | pulsory |years of |present|  per  |  at   |British
        COUNTRY.   | under |  labor, | freedom,| date, | cwt., |7s. 6d.|planta-
                   |slavery| for the | for the |exclu- |taking |  per  |tions
                   |or com-|supply of|supply of|sive of|  the  |  cwt. | since
                   |pulsory|  Europe |  Europe |inter- |average|making |emanci-
                   | labor.| and the | and the |est on |cost of|  the  |pation.
                   |       |  United |  United | capi- |  the  |average|
                   |       |  States,|  States.|  tal, |latter |  of   |
                   |       |         |         |  etc. |at 11s.| slave |
                   |       |         |         |       |  per  | trade |
                   |       |         |         |       |  cwt. | labor |
                   |       |         |         |       |       |8s. per|
                   |       |         |         |       |       |  cwt. |
  -----------------+-------+---------+---------+-------+-------+-------+------
  _British         |  s. d.|   Tons. |   Tons. | s  d. | s. d. |  s. d.| s. d.
    Plantations_.  |       |         |         |       |       |       |
   Antigua         |  7  6 |   7,767 |   8,963 | 16  6 |  5  6 |  8  6 |  9  0
   Barbados        |  6  0 |  17,174 |  16,378 | 15  6 |  4  6 |  7  6 |  9  6
   Grenada         | 11  0 |   9,634 |   3,779 | 17  6 |  6  6 |  9  6 |  6  6
   St. Kitts       |  5  0 |   4,382 |   5,558 | 19  0 |  8  0 | 11  0 | 14  0
   St. Vincent     |  5  6 |  10,056 |   6,636 | 19  6 |  8  6 | 11  6 | 14  0
   Tobago          |  5  6 |   5,321 |   2,514 | 19  6 |  8  6 | 11  6 | 14  0
   St. Lucia, etc. |  5  6 |   9,600 |   8,650 | 19  6 |  8  6 | 11  6 | 14  0
   Jamaica         | 10  0 |  68,626 |  30,807 | 22  6 | 11  6 | 14  6 | 12  6
   Guiana          |  6  8 |  44,178 |  24,817 | 25 10 | 14 10 | 17 10 | 19  2
   Trinidad A*     |  3  0 |  15,428 |  16,539 | 20 10 |  9 10 | 12 10 | 17 10
   Mauritius       |       |  35,000 |  50,000 | 20  0 |  9  0 | 12  0 |

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