average from the statements of births for five years, we find
that in every 100 legitimate whites there are 51.1 males, and 48.9
females; and in an equal number of illegitimate, 49 males, and 51
females. Among people of color, in 100 legitimate births, 50.6 males,
and 49.4 females; and in the illegitimate, 47.2 males, and 52.8 females.
And finally, that, comparing the totals, we obtain in the legitimate,
51.6 males, and 48.4 females; and in the illegitimate, 47.1 males, and
52.9 females. Consequently these observations show that in Cuba, in the
illegitimate births, the number of males is much less than that of
females, and the contrary in the legitimate births.

_Ratio between the Births and Deaths for five years._
+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| | 1825 | 1826 | 1827 | 1828 | 1829 |
| +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Births, | 3,129 | 3,443 | 3,491 | 3,705 | 3,639 |
| Deaths, | 2,698 | 2,781 | 3,077 | 3,320 | 3,712 |
| Difference,| 431 | 662 | 414 | 385 | 73 |
+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

_Agriculture._--The total number of acres comprising the whole territory
is 14,993,024. Of these, in 1830, there were used:

In sugar-cane plantations, 172,608
" coffee trees, 184,352
" tobacco, 54,448
" lesser or garden and fruit culture, 823,424
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Total acres, 1,234,832

Leaving over 13,000,000 of acres uncultivated. Some of these
uncultivated lands are appropriated to grazing, others to settlements
and towns; the remainder occupied by mountains, roads, coasts, rivers
and lakes,--the greater part, however, wild.

Total value of lands in 1830, $94,396,300
Value of buildings, utensils, etc., 55,603,850

The different products of cultivation were valued as follows:

Sugar canes in the ground, $6,068,877
Coffee trees, 32,500,000
Fruit trees, vegetables, etc., 46,940,700
Tobacco plants, 340,620
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Total value of plants, 85,850,197
Total value of wood exported, consumed
on the island and made into charc