EXPENSE
L. s. d.
To digging the ground 1 0 0
Planting arrowroot 0 6 0
Twelve load of seaweed, at 1s. 0 12 0
Rotten manure for onions, 10 loads, at 2s. 1 0 0
One bottle onion seed 0 16 0
Sowing onion seed and keeping the plants clean 0 10 0
Planting out onions 1 0 0
Cleaning onions after set out 0 15 0
Tops and making basket 1 8 0
Pulling, cutting, and basketing 0 18 0
Carting and shipping 0 8 0
Digging arrowroot 2 0 0
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10 13 0
Clear profit on quarter acre 22 13 9
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33 6 9
PRODUCE
By onions sold 20 16 0
By arrowroot 12 10 9
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33 6 9

This is at the rate of L90 15s. clear profit per acre, which is more
than double the worth of the land. I have not named the arrowroot
plants, because I have planted my land with them again, but they might
be fairly put to the credit of the account. The above statement shows
what may be done with good land and good management; but even if a man
can only clear L10 on an acre of land, he ought not to grumble.

Dr. Ure gives a most interesting and lucid account of the mode of
manufacture in the island of St. Vincent, where the plant is now
cultivated with great success, and the root manufactured in a superior
manner.

It grows there to the height of about three feet, and it sends down
its tap root from twelve to eighteen inches into the ground. Its
maturity is known by the flagging and falling down of the leaves, an
event which takes place when the plant is from ten to twelve months'
old. The roots being dug up with the hoe, are transported to the
washing-house, where they are thoroughly freed from all adhering
earth, and next taken individually into the hand and deprived, by a
knife, of e