Altogether Costa Rica, in 1892, had 8366 coffee-fincas with 26,911,078 coffee-trees, and a crop of 378,224 quintals or 17,388,704 kilograms, valued at 10,954,744 pesos. It may be interesting to learn the amount of the coffee crops since 1883, given in sacks of fifty-nine or sixty kilograms each. Sacks. 1883 153,379 1884 277,158 1885 157,515 1886 150,618 1887 218,032 1888 171,898 1889 215,793 1890 256,576 1891 235,703 1892 179,970 1893 190,700 1894 179,613 1895 184,825 1896 195,263 1897 227,582 Another important agricultural product of Costa Rica is the banana. Its cultivation was begun on the Atlantic coast in 1879, and the first 360 bunches were shipped, February 7. 1880, by steamer “Earnholm” from Port Limon to New York. In 1884 there were 350 farms, comprising over four thousand acres of land, containing 570,000 banana plants, from which, in that year, 420,000 bunches were obtained. Before 1879 banana plants were set out in coffee plantations to shade the young trees and shelter their berries. The bananas were used to feed pigs. The laboring classes kept a few plants, using the fruit boiled with salt, or roasted on hot coals instead of bread. The following table shows the banana export figures since 1883: Bundles. Tons. 1883 110,801 3,693 1884 420,000 14,000 1885 401,183 13,373 1886 595,970 19,866 1887 889,517 29,651 1888 854,588 28,486 1889 990,898 33,030 1890 1,034,765 34,492 1891 1,133,717 37,791 1892 1,178,812 39,294 1893 1,278,647 42,621 1894 1,374,986 45,833 1895 1,585,817 52,861 1896 1,692,102 56,400 Sugar cane is used largely in Costa Rica as fodder and in the manufacture of aguardiente; also to produce the raw sugar or dulce, which is consumed entirely by country people. In 1889 sugar cane by provinces was raised on the following number of acres: In San José on 4819 acres; in Alajuela on 5076 acres; in Cartago on 1466 acres; in Heredia on 1114 acres; in Guanacaste on 719 acres; in Puntarenas on 1471, and in Limon on 122 acres. The aggregates were 14,787 acres, and a production of 1,368,000 pounds of sugar and 18,454,000 pounds of dulce. Cacao culture has received but little attention in Costa Rica, because the more profitable coffee plantations absorb all the time and capital. The number of plantations regularly established up to 1888 was 198, having in all 56,426 trees that yielded in the same year 331,900 pounds valued at 165,770 pesos. Most of the cacao was cultivated in Aserri, Atenas, Naranjo, Heredia, Paraiso, Guanacaste and Limon. Cacao was exported from 1884 to 1889 as follows: Years. Pounds. Value in Dollars.