Wooden sugar-cane mills 1,277 Iron sugar-cane mills 800 Coffee estates with machinery 148 Stills for distilling rum 340 Brick ovens 80 Lime kilns 45 _Land under Cultivation_ Cane 14,803 acres. Plantains 30,706 " Rice 14,850 " Maize 16,194 " Tobacco 2,599 " Manioc 1,150 " Sweet potatoes 1,224 " Yams 6,696 " Pulse 1,100 " Horticulture 31 " Coffee-plants 16,750 acres 16,992,857 Cotton-trees 3,079 " 3,079,310 Coco-palms 2,402 " 60,050 Orange-trees 3,430 " 85,760 Aguacate-trees 2,230 " 55,760 Pepper or chilli or aji trees 500 The live stock of the island in the same year consisted of: Cows 42,500 head. Bulls 6,720 " Oxen 20,910 " Horses 25,760 " Mares 27,210 " Asses 315 " Mules 1,112 " Sheep 7,560 " Goats 5,969 " Swine 25,087 " Turkeys 8,671 " Other fowls 838,454 " This agricultural wealth of the island, houses, lands, and slaves _not_ included, was valued at $37,993,600, and its annual produce at $6,883,371, half of which was exported. These statistics may be considered as only _approximately correct,_ as the returns made by the proprietors to the Government, in order to escape taxation, were less than the real numbers existing. The natural wealth of Puerto Rico may be divided into agricultural, pastoral, and sylvan. According to the Spanish Government measurements the island's area is 2,584,000 English acres. Of these, there were Under cultivation in 1830, as above detailed 117,244 acres. In pastures 634,506 " In forests 728,703 " ------------ Total _tax-paying lands_ 1,480,453 " The pasture lands on the north and east coasts are equal to the best lands of the kind in the West Indies for the breeding and fattening of cattle. On the south coast excessive droughts often parch the grass, in which case the cattle are fed on cane-tops at harvest time. There are excellent and nutritive native grasses of different species to be found in every valley. The cattle bred in the island are generally tame.