March i, 1887.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 



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high culture is universally imitated. Much import- 

 ance is attached to obtmiing dense plantation so 

 as to check weeds as much as possible. To ae- 

 cure this end the trees are planted at very small 

 distances into the unbroken soil 4x4. Rhynlaud 

 teet may be taken as minimum distance. The 

 plantations havmg densely grown up, thiunmg out 

 is commenced witli by uprooting stifled trees and trees 

 about to be stifled, or merely by cutting twigs if it might 

 appeir that the open space left by the tree being 

 felled would be too large. " Early, frequent and 

 moderate harvesting " may be taken as a rule. This 

 mode of working has proved in the long run to be the 

 most profitable one to .planters, because it requires 

 but little care in keeping up plantations and leaves 

 the trees to develop powerfully and undisturbedly. 

 On production falling off by thmning out, felling 

 of the whole plantation will have to be resorted 

 do. Barks are generally sun-dried, owing, however, 

 to the damp climate in which estates are situated, 

 drying kilns are gradually getting into use. 



Gdm Leaves fok Diseased Fowls. — A correspondent 

 writes to the Toini and Country Journal that tht-re is a 

 remedy for the ills of the pou, try-yard always at hand 

 in the gum trees around it. He says : — "For diarrhcea, 

 dysentery, aud cholera in fowls, get a quantity of 

 eucalyptus leaves (whits or blue gum ; I havf usel both) 

 Dry the leaves sufficiently to make them brittle, 

 crush, and make into pills with the aid of a little bread 

 or dough. Put as much of the powdf-r (i. e., crushed 

 or powdered leaves) as you can lif- with a shilliug into 

 each pill. Give one to each fowl afifec'ed, and if neces- 

 sary repeat the dose next day. I have not had a single 

 death amongst my fowls since I used the foregoing 

 remedy. I lost seventeen in two days with cholera, 

 and the four I saved out of the twenty-cme I had, could 

 not stand when I gave them the pills. They are now 

 fine healthy birds. I have recommended the remedy to 

 several people, and in no case has th^re been a si gle 

 failure. I lost at the same time a collection of Ausira- 

 liau parrots from the same complaint, and it was by 

 observing a flock of pirrot.s on the white gum trr e that 

 I found out the remedy. I have not lost a single parrot 

 since. I give any pirrot Riling a little powdert^d leaf 

 in a tube, inserting one end into the throat of the 

 bird and blowing the powder into it. Put a few leaves 

 into the cage for them tn eat. Finally I may add that 

 1 have taken a large pill, composed of the blue gum 

 for a very severe attack of dysentery, which proved 

 effectual, and the best remedy I have ever used. I 

 have been a severe s^ufferer. I think the eucaljptus 

 is iSature's remedy for the foregoing complaints, aud 

 is worth try'\ag."—QueensIander. 



Ageicultcre axd Planting in Kwala Lumpue and 

 Kla.ng— Quite close to the town lies the prop, rty of the 

 " Selaugnr Sago and Paddy Company," a block of land 

 six thousand acres in extent ; the land appears to be 

 suitable in every respect for the cultivation propo-ed, 

 but it is no ^ecret that the estate has been dreadfully 

 mismanaged, and that its pro-pects are not very brisi^ht. 

 Arab gentlemen in general have many adm rabie 

 characteristics, but they have yet to make their ranrk 

 as successful managing directors of public companies. 

 There appears to be a good deal of young sago on 

 this plantation, but I saw no paddy. Another enter- 

 prise under native management is the plantation of 

 about a thousand acres belonging to the Datu Dagang 

 who conducts his business on truly oriental and 

 patriarchal principles. He has attracted some hundreds 

 of Javanese to settle on his laud by offering them each 

 a house and a plot of land plus forty dollars per 

 annum in hard cash, in return for which they have 

 to plant up his estate, all crops, except those grown 

 iu their own vegetable gardens, being the property of 

 the Datu; the sjrtem seems to work very well, the 

 .Javanese, who did not appear to me to be working any 

 harder than was good fur them, are quite contented, 

 and as for the Da'u, although he does not expect to 

 see any speedy return for his money, as he thinks it 

 will pay best to principally plant fruit trees which 

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will have to be in the ground for some years before 

 they bear a crop, ye' he is convinced that in the long 

 run it will become a very valuable property, and says 

 that if he does not live to get his money back, it will 

 make a very good proviion for his children. I greatly 

 regret that I had not time to visit Mr. Stephenson's 

 pepper plantation which has frequently been described 

 to me as being a very successful and profitable enter- 

 prise ; I rode over Rlr. .J. G. Davidson's gambler plant- 

 ation, about which, however, it is difficult to say any- 

 thing of much value, as the plants are very young and 

 the place is terribly overgrown with lalang and weeds of 

 all kinds, but for plants less than a year old, grown 

 under such circumstances they looked very well ; and 

 clearing foi- pepper planting is in progress on this 

 estate. I forgot to mention that there is a steam saw 

 mill a little way out of Klaug, belonging to the ubi- 

 quitous firm of Hill and Rathboue. Th« revenue for 

 the district of Klang during the first half year of 18S5 

 was S62,803, and since then the duties on oil, rice, 

 and tobacco have been abolished, in spite of which 

 judicious concessions the revenue for the first six 

 months of the present year was 878,736 or an increase 

 of S15,935, a most gratifying result which clearly 

 shows what progress the country is making. Mr. 

 Turney, like Mr. Syers, has acquired the art of 

 managing the natives and getting them to do what 

 is wanted of them without any bother or trouble. 

 — iS( raits Times. 



Ceylon Tea Advertising. — A planter writes: 

 — "I send you a circular being distributed in Aber- 

 deen. The "■unleashed Mongolian'' is very fetch- 

 ing!" The main parts of the circular are as fol- 

 lows : — 



Ceylon Tea ! Ceylon Tea ! ! Ceylon Tea ! ! !— 

 Having just arrived from Ceylon, where I was for 

 several years superintending the cultivation and man- 

 ufacturing of Tea, I have decided to open a business 

 solely for the sale of Pure Ceylon Tea, importing it 

 direct from the factories, so as to enable me to put 

 before the public the pure article at lowest possible 

 price. In Ceylon, Tea grows from an elevation a 

 httle above sea level up to 6,000 feet, and according 

 to the height where the leaf is grown and manufact- 

 ured so is its strength and flavour. Knowing the 

 altitude of most of the estates in the island, I will 

 be able to buy Teas so as to make a blend compris- 

 ing both Strength and Flavour. Ceylon.— In the minds 

 of the British public, the name has been chiefly asso- 

 ciated with the p-oduction of Coffee, but now that 

 Coffee in many districts has almost entirely collapsed 

 the Planters have turned theirattention to the cultiv- 

 ation of Tea, and, with their characterstic per.se ver- 

 ancp, are turning out an article, such as their Coffee 

 was. The Finest iu the World. 



All Ceylon Teas are cultivated and manufactuied 

 under personal European supervision, and with the 

 highest-class machinery to be had, packed on and 

 shipped direct from the estates, which insnres con- 

 sumers getting the pure, cle.an article. China and 

 Japan Teas are mostly cultivated in small patches 

 by peasantry, who gather the leaves and prepare the 

 Tea iu their huts in a very unfastidious manner. Petty 

 dealers hawk the country, buying up these small 

 quantities, and selling to larger dealers, whom^inipu- 

 late and sell to merchants. Did the people thoroughly 

 understand the difference between British-grown Tea 

 — such as Ceylon and that of China or Japan, it is 

 certain that those who could get the pure, clean 

 machine-prepared leaf, which is turned out from the 

 Planters' factory, would never touch the far from pure 

 article prepared by the hands aud feet of the unwashed 

 Mongnhan. Ceylon Tea is the most economical (in so 

 far that one pound will go as far as 1| pounds of 

 China), Pure, Wholesome, and Pleasant.' Purchasers 

 are cautioned to sre that they get the genuine arti- 

 cle. Every lb. sold by me is guaranteed Pure Cetlon 

 Tea. . 



The outside pages of th<^ circular show a very fair 

 engraving of "a Ceylon Tea Estate and Factory" 

 and " The Interior of a Ceylon Taa Factory." 



