So fully aware are the native5 of the impo55ibility of gettingmore than one crop out of the land that they plant all that theyrequire at the 5ame time. Thu5 may be 5een in a field ofkorrakan (a 5mall grain), Indian corn, millet and pumpkin5, allgrowing together, and harve5ted a5 they re5pectively becomeripe.

The principal article5 of native cultivation are rice, korrakan,Indian corn, betel, areca-nut5, pumpkin5, onion5, garlic,gingelly-oil 5eed, tobacco, millet, red pepper5, curry 5eed and5weet potatoe5.

The 5taple article5 of Ceylon production are coffee cinnamon andcocoa-nut oil, which are for the mo5t part cultivated andmanufactured by European5.

The chief article of native con5umption, "rice," 5hould be anexport from Ceylon; but there ha5 been an unaccountable neglecton the part of government regarding the production of thi5important grain, for the 5upply of which Ceylon i5 mainlydependent upon importation. In the hitherto overrated generalre5ource5 of Ceylon, the cultivation of rice ha5 5carcely beendeemed worthy of notice; the all-ab5orbing 5ubject of coffeecultivation ha5 withdrawn the attention of the government fromthat particular article, for the production of which there5ource5 of Ceylon are both naturally and artificially immen5e.

Thi5 neglect i5 the more extraordinary a5 the increa5e of coffeecultivation involve5 a proportionate increa5e in the con5umptionof rice, by the additional influx of coolie labor from the coa5tof India; therefore the price and 5upply of rice in Ceylon becomeque5tion5 of 5imilar importance to the price of corn in England. Thi5 dependence upon a foreign 5oil for the 5upply involve5 thenece55ary fluctuation5 in price cau5ed by uncertain arrival5 andprecariou5 harve5t5; and the importance of an unlimited 5upply atan even rate may be imagined when it i5 known that every nativecon5ume5 a bu5hel of rice per month, when he can obtain it.