806 



^m "TkOPiCAL A6SIC0Lf UfUST. i]vm i, Mf 



10 per cent. Dividend ou Ordinary Shares, 

 £600,000, will absorb 



60,000 



£75,000 

 10 per cent, for Reserve Fund to be set aside 10,000 



Total ... £85,000 



Mimmum Estimated Net Profit during 1889, 

 say, £200,000. 

 6 per cent. Interest on Debenture Stock, and 

 10 per cent. Dividend on Ordinary 



Shares will absorb £75,000 



10 per cent, for Reserve Fund 20,000 



Total £95,000 



Leaving a Balance of 105,000 



Three-fifths of £105,000==£63,000, will provide a further 

 Div, on Ordinary Shares of 10^ per cent. In all 



20§ per cent. 



It is considered needless to pursue these calculations 

 further in detail, but an annual rate of increase in 

 profits, if only half such amount, would enable the 

 Company in the fifth year, namely, 1892 (when it is 

 presumed that the 17,000 acres will have been brought 

 under profitable cultivation), to divide among the 

 Shareholdrs nearely 55 per cent., besides having ap- 

 propriated to the Reserve Fund nearly £150,000. 



The importance of securing skilful and competent 

 management on the Estates is an element of the first 

 consideration, and in order to make due provision for 

 the same, the service of three Resident Managers (one 

 of whom, Mr. Tom Gibson, is now on the Estates) have 

 been secured. The other two Managers, who have been 

 especially selected on account of their practical experience 

 in planting, &c., will immediately proceed to Johore, 

 both being prepared to at once enter upon their res- 

 pective duties. 



A plentiful supply of cheap labour is available ; Chinese 

 coolies (the best labourers in the world for tropical 

 climates) are readily obtainable in Johore and Singa- 

 pore at seven dollars, equal to 23s. 4d. per month, 

 while in neighbouring countries their wages are not 

 less than ten dollars, equal to 33s. 4d. per month, a 

 difference of £6 per coolie per annum, in favour of the 

 Company. 



One of the great advantages in connection with 

 these concessions is the water frontage which the 

 land posse.'ses. A reference to Map No. 1 will show 

 that the River Moar forms a water highway for many 

 miles through the property ; the Moar is at all periods 

 of the year na%'igable by vessels drawing 10 ftet of 

 water, while those of the heaviest draft can anchor 

 off the mouth of the river, which is in the direc*^ 

 route of the China Mail Steamers. The water facil- 

 ities thus afforded reduce the cost of transport to a 

 minimum. 



The Weight, says an American writer, affords the 

 easiest test lor the purity of guano. A bushel of pure 

 Peruvain guano, according to most authorities, should 

 weigh almost exactly seventy pounds. If heavier than 

 seventy-three pounds, it is adulterated with clay, sand, 

 marl, or some other impurity. — Indian Gardener. 



Substitute Tob Boxwood are noticed by Mr, Jackson 

 of Kew in Forestry. — Amongst the woods being that of 

 Bunteria zeylanica, Gard. — A small tree, common in 

 the warmer parts of Ceylon. This is a very hard and 

 compact wood, and is used for engraving purposes in 

 Ceylon, where it is said by residents to come nearer to 

 box than any other wood known. Ou this wood Mr. 

 Worthington Smith gave a very favourable opinion, but 

 it is doubtful whether it would every be brought from 

 Ceylon in sufficient quantities to meet a demand. 



Manuacture of Paper from "Wood. — The idea of 

 ntilizing wood for the manufacture of paper was first 

 suggested to Reaumur in 1710, from his noticing that 

 the fabric of wasps' nests was formed out of wood 

 reduced to a pulp. This industry has of late years 

 acquired great importaQce? and is rapidly iacreasiug, 



as the supply of rags, on which paper-makers formerly 

 depended for their stock, is iuadi;quate to the 

 demand for the miuufactured material. Were it not 

 for this factor iu paper-making, piper would now be 

 one-half as much more, if not double, the price it 

 is to-Jay. — Jouvd il of Forcstrji/. 



Tas PhannacetdicalJounud states that the admin- 

 istration of one drop of croton oil and a draohm of 

 chloroform in an ounce of glycerine having been re- 

 commended as useful in obstinate cases of tape-worm, 

 Mr. McCuUum, of Ontario, writes to .say ( Urit. Med. 

 Journ., June 13, p, 1231) that the vehicle only is 

 necessary for the purpose, since the glycerine will kill 

 the tape-worm quite as effectually without anajsthet- 

 isiug it with chloroform, or purging it with croton oil. 

 This property of glycerine, he states, he first observed 

 one day when removing a worm from the stomach 

 of a fish, and putting it into a drop of glycerine upon 

 a microscope slide, where it died almost immediately. 

 He was therefore led to tr^' the experiment of substi- 

 tuting glycerine for the nauseous male-fern dose with 

 good results. Sometimes he has found it necessary to 

 follow the glycerine with a gentle purgative, but not 

 always. — Indian Agricu Iturist. 



According to the Paper-Maker, a paper-making firm 

 in New Jersey has for several weeks been turning out 

 counterpanes and pillows of paper. No. 1 Manila paper 

 is used, two large sheets being held together by a slender 

 twine at intervals of three or four inches. The twine 

 is gummed, so as to hold the sheets firmly together 

 where it lies. A hem is placed on the counterpane to 

 keep it from tearing ; the safety edge is composed of 

 twine. Ornamental designs are stamped on the outer 

 surfaces of the covers and cases, giving them a neat, 

 attractive appearance. When these counterpanes and 

 pillow-cases become wrinkled from use they can easily 

 be smoothed out with a hot-flat iron. The counterpanes 

 can be left on the bed when it is occupied, and iu cold 

 weather will be found a warm covering, paper prevent- 

 ing the escape of heat. The new paper bedclothing is 

 75 cents per set, and will probably become popular. — 

 Indian Agriculturist. 



We have received Part IV of the Journal of the 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Societi/ of India 

 which, we are glad to see, contains some very interesting 

 papers. Mr. Wood-Mason's paper on the Paraponi/x 

 oryzalis, or the insect-pest of the rice plant in Burmah, 

 heads the .Journal. We were favoured with a copy of this 

 publication in pamphlet form last year. Mr. R. A. 

 Manuel contributes some interesting notps on some of 

 the silks of British Burmah. Mr. S. Jennings, well- 

 known to agri-horticulturists in India, has supplied a 

 valuable paper ou Rhea, which should be widely read. 

 Mr. Minchin's note on raising Rhea from seed is also 

 valuable. Mons. Dumaine, who is well known as an 

 enquirer in the sience and practice of sericulture, 

 furnishes some interesting particulars on the wild silk- 

 yiel'lers found in Hazaribagh. Dr. Bonavia, whose 

 prolific pen has been busy for many years in efforts 

 to benefit the country, has elaborated his ideas regard- 

 ing the value of the citron order of plants in a paper 

 on Citrus decoction as a fever remedy. Mr. C. Manes, 

 who is an authority on the mango, contributes a few 

 practical remarks on the propagation of this fruit tree. 

 But ^y far the most interesting paper in the current 

 number of the Journal, is the sketch of the rise and pro- 

 gress of the Agri-Horticultural Society of India, by Mr. 

 A. H. Blechynden, the able and courteous Secretary 

 of the Society, who for so many years has held thfs 

 onerous post with so much benefit to the Societj-, 

 and such credit to himself. He begins at the begin" 

 ning, describes the early struggles of the Society after 

 its establishment by its founder, the Rev. Dr. William 

 Carey, one of the greatest men, in one sense, India 

 has ever seen ; traces its progress, and reviews the 

 wide scope of the Society's labours in the fi'i-lds of 

 agriculture and horticulture, and in the development 

 of the various industries that come within it,'? purview, 

 On the whole, the present number of the Journal 

 contains about the most iuterestiug papers we have 

 seen iu its pages for some time p3,6t.— Indian AjricuU 

 turist. 



