38 Grenada. 19 May, 1875 Crops are now [illegible] employ his cart by sending it to fetch up all the rubble and other manure he can get. This he hauls into his land, and thus improves its bearing power considerably. Mr Branch also does some cane cultivation and he grinds his cane by windmill power. Beyond to Cacao cultivation, in Malta Haly Hutchinson kindly allowed me to make the following extract from a dispatch he has done under date of 14th March 1875: "In Grenada, on a well managed estate, the total cost of production of cacao, including wages, repairs, and cost of current improvements may safely be placed at £1.8.0 per bag of 150 lbs." "At the present price of cacao, a bag of 150 lbs. of well cured cacao clears about £4.6.0 after payment of freight and commission. Cacao on good lands averages five bags, and even with prices - as safe average for middling lands is three bags per acre" "The labour of cutting the cacao and bringing it to the house can will not cost anything in this case, but in order to be on the safe side, I shall place the cost of preparing the cacao including management and delivery on the wharf at £1.14f. "At present prices this leaves a margin of £2.07- per bag" This extract is from an able despatch relating to the 39 Grenada. 19 May, 1875 opening up and cultivation of the newly discovered Richmond Valley in the interior of St Vincent. The Grenada scheme is to open up this valley by a road leading upto and through it, to create or surveyed lots principally for Barbados & slave who would receive freeholds on the condition that they cultivate cacao, and sell the produce to the Govt Monopoly. This scheme if carried out by an able man would be undoubtedly a successful one, but as the Governor said, the difficulty was to get a good man. I have to mention that before we reached the house of the Rev W Branch, we came to a Barbadian settlement which appears to be very prosperous. Barbadians (principally blacks) had settled in the district and made themselves into a permanent community. Here and there was a diminutive sugar plantation with its small windmill and tanks. Justified also by the roadside a wheelwright and blacksmiths shops & other shops. Indeed one might suppose that they were in Barbados - for the stately Barbadians are very rarely distinguished. At a place called Vincennes I got two Cask stone implements. One however, had to give 7b 6d.