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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 



[August i, 1883. 



(Coutitiited over.) 



District ami uame of 

 t/ompany. 



Hattighur 



Eria Baree 

 Majuligbur Estate 

 Kolapani Estate... 

 Koliabur Factory 

 yeconee Estate ... 

 Beheating 

 Bongoug ... 



CACH.Ut. 



Land Mortgage Bank . 



Borokai Co 



Indian Tea Co. Oachar . 



Craig Park 



Diilcherra... 



Budderpore Estate 



SVLHET. 



Laud Mortgage Bank . 



D.4HJEKMXG. 



Land Mortgage Bank . 

 Darjeeliug Co. ... 

 Leboug C'O. 

 Kungmook 

 Turzuni Estate ... 

 Poobong ... 

 Selimbong 



Doo.UiS. 

 Land Mortgage Bank . 



6 5p 



§2 j Yield. 



305 

 300 

 215 

 193 

 205 

 190 

 200 

 110 



l,2tl7 

 820 

 678 

 500 

 400 

 280 



785 



2,540 

 1,-534 

 729 

 260 

 1.50 

 135 



115 



111,539 

 111,167 





90,6405: 



4 9/16 

 it 



(Vverage 

 Sale Piece. 



75,575 

 66,480 

 66,260 



4 15/16 

 4 



4 1/3 



33,32912 1/16 

 29,893,31 



537,1 20j3i 

 199,2003' 

 208,7003* 

 171,700141 

 162,2005 

 83,883|3| 



180,96oJ2| 



527,8402j 

 566,102 4 3/5 

 265,704 4i 

 82,000,315/16 

 34.OO0I2 5/6 

 53,525 5 

 20,678: — 



50,160,54 



1 3 



llj 



1 5* 

 1 2I 



1 

 1 



oi 



1 2 1/10 



Oil* 

 1 7* 

 1 3i 

 1 1' 

 1 3 

 I 5 



1 21 



3 4/5 



3J 



3 1/6 

 7 



1 51 

 4 

 6 9/10 



lr'2i 



Finally, we have a very cordial reference to Cey- 

 lon teas in the Product MarkeW Sirkw, of -June 16th, 

 the latest to hand, as follows : — 



Common sorts sold steadily, but there was a brisk' de- 

 mand for the finest Indian descriptions and for Ceylon 

 growths, at firm rates. Of the latter 770 packages were 

 oiYered, and as most of these were of excellent quality, 

 the demand was unusually active. The improvement in 

 these gi-owths during the past season is very marked, and 

 if those interested in the production continue to produce 

 teas of equally satisfactory character, they are des- 

 tined to become as popular and as generally used as 

 Indian descriptions. The imports of the past season 

 from Ceylon reached about 1,000,000 lb., and as great 

 attention is now being paid to cultivation, a large annual 

 increase may he looked for. If it be true that Ceylon 

 tea can be laid down at Colombo for 6d. per lb., the in- 

 dustry has an immense future before it, as the quality of the 

 finer parcels from the island is magnificent. The reports of 

 the Indian croj) continue fauly satisfactory, although the 

 season ivill be later than the previous one. The demand 

 at the pubhc sales this week for the fine descriptions was 

 good, and Ceylon teas sold at lugher rates, while the 

 commoner quaUties met with but moderate attention at late 

 prices. The movement in Java teas has been unimportant, 

 as only small supplies were offered. 



There is the greatest possible encouragement to the 

 extension of tea cultivation in Ceylon. It will be 

 observed that the highest yield of tea jier acre 

 in India was, during the last season, 9 2-5ths 

 nuuuids or about 750 lb. per acre on the Talup 

 Estate, Assam, the crop being 753,200 11). from about 

 1,020 acres. Some of the Assam estates, however, 

 go as low as from 170 to 250 lb. per acre while 

 the average sale prices range from ll^d to Is 3id. 

 Ill Cachar, where the yield ranged from 250 to 430 

 lb., the average price ranged from ll|d to Is 74d. 

 Darjiling crops were from 220 to 410 lb., the average 

 prices ranging from Is SJd to Is 7d. We cannot 

 yet show very large areas of tea in full bearing in 

 Ceylon, but the experience gained at this early stage 

 of a maximum yield equal to 700 lb. of manufactured 

 tea per acre in Hewaheta and Yatiyantota, and of 

 800 lb. in Ambagamuwa, warrants us in considermg 

 that Ceylon is likely to beat the best districts of 

 India in the yield of tea, a.s well as by-and-bye in 

 the average prices gained in the Lonjou mai'ket. 



— Just as we are closing this, we receive a letter 

 from a well-known tea-planter who says in reference 

 to our Yatiyantota and Awisawella districts : — " This 

 will be a great tea region. During the last six 

 months, I have made 400 lb. per acre off my tea all 

 round and yet the oldest is scarcely 4 years and 

 a portion is only 3 years old, and as far as the trees 

 are concerned I could have got more." 



KKVJEW OF BOOK ON AGRICULTURE. 



Ai/ricul/ure : By William T. Lawrence. Edinburgh: 



W. & R. Chambers. 



A littlf work of little pretensions, but of much more 

 than ordinai'y merit, bearmg the above simple name, 

 has recently been issued by the above linn. For 

 halt a century this firm has been noted for the ex- 

 cellence of the different educational series issued by 

 them, and this new venture should add considerably 

 to their reputation. We have cirefuUy read every 

 one of the 340 paragraphs contained within the sub- 

 stantial cloth binding, and are constrained to say ihat 

 nowhere have we met with a book, elementary or 

 otherwise, containing so much information in so little 

 bulk, and in such simple, easily understood laiiffuafe. 

 Its author, W. T. Lawrence, Hereford, has proved 

 himself particularly well qiialitied to reich the mMt 

 opaque understandings. We can hardly think of boys 

 so dull as to be incapable of understanding the science 

 of plant-growth as here taught, and we woukl urge 

 oil school boards in agricultural districts the desirability 

 of iatroduciag this subject as one of the necessary 

 elements as treated in this manual. It is well printed, 

 well bound, and low-priced. 



But w'hile bearing in mind, and placing the interest 

 of the cjuutry tirst, we are not forgetful of our own 

 readers. Frequently the treatment; of gardening and 

 farming subject from a scientific standpoint nec-ssitates 

 the use of terms tliat make the writer's words less 

 iutelli^ible than is desirable. This is almost nlw.iy3 

 unavoidable so long as the readers know little or 

 nothing of the science of agricultural chemistry. 

 Frequently we have been asked to recommend 

 books to such, to enable them to master the subject 

 so far a5 to enable them to grasp tae meaning of 

 the terms now so largely us-'d by many wri'ers. This 

 is a S'linewhat thankless task, as such works are either 

 high-priced or useless, and generally contain an amount 

 of matter not wanted that the general reader has not 

 the patience to wade through and pick up the grains 

 of kno%vleJge lie is in search of. To such we can 

 cordially recoinmed this manual 



Oar intention was to have made sever.il quotations 

 to show how simple, terse, yet clear and satisfactory, 

 is the language used, but, though we had marked 

 rather a large number of pissages, we find selection 

 rather dilhcuit. Almost at random we select the follow- 

 ing, which occurs under the heading " Properties 

 <iK SciILs.'' — "If you were to take three flower pots 

 and fill the (irst with marbles, the second with sand, 

 and the third with line soft powdered c irth, and then 

 pour water into them, you woukl tin I that the water 

 would run through the pot tilled with marbles almost 

 as soon as you poured it in ; bui that it would take 

 a little longer to run through the one containing sand, 

 and still louuer to soak through the third. This sliows 

 that tlie liner the particles of the substance the longer 

 it will hold water : and why ? Because small particles 

 lie so much closer together than large ones, and the 

 spaces between then are too small to let the water 

 run through quickly. Now clay consists of very fine 

 particles (finer particles than any other kind of sod), 

 tlicrefore it is able to hold watir for the use of plants 

 better than any other soil. But the tine particles of 

 clay may be pressed together so closely when damp 



