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Excerpt from Cultivation of Tobacco in Sumatra Only a portion of the acres constituting an average-sized estate is under cultivation at any one time. When land was plentiful and concessions were easily obtained, the field was cleared and planted in tobacco but once in twelve or fifteen years, in order that the jungle should grow on it again and make it almost virgin soil. But since all the best land is now taken, this time is considerably lessened, and it is usual to allow but four or five years to. Elapse between successive plantings Of the same field. Fig 1. - Diagram showing arrangement of fields and sheds on Sumatra plantation. A B is the ma plant road; aa, sheds; bb, small roads crossing fields parallel to main plant roads. Are each 60 feet wide from north to south and 960 feet long from east to west. The estate is divided into a number of fields under a manager, 0 administrator, as he is there called.. The maximum number of field for an estate is about 400. The size of a field is usually 131; acres, am this is given to one Chinese coolie to cultivate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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