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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 



[August i. 1882. 



The final stage is to arrest fermentation by drying, 

 which may be effected in many ways, usually by the help 

 of machinery. The entire process of manufacture after 

 "withering" does not take more than about fonr 

 hours and a half. All that now remains to do is to 

 sort the tea in sieves, according to size and quality, 

 thus distinguishing the various grades, from flowery 

 pekoe to broken congou, and to pack it for shipment 

 in the well-known tea chests.* — Hunter's "Indian 

 Umpire." 



♦ 



MANITOBA:— A SAD PICTURE. 



A planter ^vrites : — 



" If you would publish the enclosed cutting from 

 the Money Market Sev'mo, it might be a warning to 

 many men who are thinking of leaving Ceylon for 

 Manitoba." 



Dec. 10th, below -!ero ^6 



TO THE EDITOR OE TUE " MONEY M.4KKET REVIEW." 



Sir, — I read the letters (in reply to mine) of your 

 coiTCspondents, " S. A." and "H." 



In reply, I repeat, "the counti-y is sunply a fraud ; 

 the climate renders it imfit for man or beast. " "H.," 

 in saying "the glass never reaches the limit "I gave, 

 must be tli-eaming. I copy from our own Globe of 

 3rd February 1880, as follows : — " Register kept by 

 the son of a Canadian clergyman in his office in 

 Manitoba : — 



Dec. 17th, below zero 48 

 42 

 43 

 38 

 52 

 56 

 43 



So if you take, say, the 24th December, the glass 

 registered 88 degrees below freezing ! ! ! 



" S. A. "'s nephew wi'ites that the wheat there is 

 " as good, if not superior," to that of some of the 

 States. This confirms my views, but is mthin the 

 mark. INIanitoba wheat is the finest in the world. 

 I enclose two samples cut there on the 13th August 

 last, perhaps the only samples (except what I keep) 

 in ear from that country in Eurojje. But, I repeat 

 the railways will prevent the WTetched fanners from 

 keeping even body and soul together. / have seen 

 thifi (love too often — to my cost. 



As to ' large numbers of Canadians going t o Mani- 

 toba, as also emigrants from the United States,' it 

 is perfectly true, but do not let the British public 

 suppose they go to farm ! ! Their sole reason is to 

 extract the coin which English emigrants are (delus- 

 ively induced) taking out with them. As a proof 

 of i;he baits held out to speculators, I may say that 

 ■ to\™ lots are selling today in Winnipeg for a higher 

 price than they are in Loudon streets. 



Lastly, I own large properties not a thousand miles 

 from Wumipeg, and have worked them with abund- 

 ant capital and machinery as a farmer. The result 

 is that I find farming will about pay expenses, ci-edit- 

 ing the farmer who works hard with the wages of 

 a day labourer. My lands are left to utter neglect 

 now, because I cannot sell ; just now railways in- 

 duce purchases by selling on " long time " and the 

 unfortunates do not see the awful pit into which such 

 bargains lure them. Nothing would induce me to 

 live above 42 degrees. 



"City" life in the North-AVest is not so bad, be- 

 cause you have amusements, and can stay indoors, 



* What does Dr. Hunter mean by " the well-kno^vn 

 ea-chests." Is the Indian tea-chest "a thing of beauty 

 nd a joy for ever"? — Ed. jT. T. 0. 



but when the question resolves itself into caxising 

 gentlemen, ladies and children, to take up lau'l in 

 the bleak prairies, it is nothing short of murder. I 

 repeat, deliberate murder. I could instance many 

 deaths from exposure there — one of an English cavalry 

 officer, two years ago, who went outside to cut wood. 

 His wife found him an hour after frozen to death 

 — she and her poor children left there without a 

 sixpence. 



Let " S. A." and "H." refute one of my state- 

 ments, and I will say no more. The " bubble " is 

 almost daily the theme of many who have been there 

 and returned. I meet them constantly, and all de- 

 plore what is going on. — I am, sir, &c., F. F. 



London, May 6th, 1882. 



THE BRAZILIAN COFFEE EXHIBITION AT 

 THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 



Our last number contained a full report of the 

 banquet given by the Brazilian Consul-General in 

 Loudon. Mr. J. L. C. de Salles, on the occasion of 

 inaugurating the Coffee Exiiibition, by samples of that 

 article drawn from the various sources of its growth 

 in Brazil. 



In addition to the steps taken by Mr. de Salles, 

 thus far noticed, we may mention that he has made 

 arrangements in the building of the Consulate for the 

 exhibition of a large number of the different sorts of 

 coffee sent for this purpose, in their original state, 

 in order that brofiers, merchants, and others may 

 inspect and taste them, thus judging for themselves 

 as to the popularity that Brazilian coffee is gradually 

 assuming amongst those of other producing countries. 

 Moreover, and, in order that this should be more fully 

 known, the Consul-General has taken the trouble to 

 distribute over England some hundreds of samples of 

 the coffee already roasted, in japanned tins of three 

 or four pounds each, the result being a great demnnd 

 for more trials ; indeed, everything possible is being 

 done to bring this important subjeet fully under 

 public notice. We have ourselves been favoured with 

 one of these packages, which we shall turn to the 

 best account. 



One of the drawbacks to which the consumption 

 of coffee in this country is exposed may be said 

 to be the difficulty in finding compel cut coffee- 

 makers. In the first place, as regards its quality, 

 we believe that, wiih all the revenue restrictions 

 as to the use of chicory only as a mixture, 

 coffee is very extensively adulterated in other 

 ways before it reaches the consumers' hands, and 

 in the next place, little care or attention is ex- 

 ercised with it for daily use, even in well-regulated 

 family circles, whilst for wholesale consumption in 

 coffeehouses, or out of doors, a compuund is too fre- 

 quently produced of anything but an agreeable nature. 

 In France, on the Continent, and in the United States, 

 the princii^le is better understood, and what is called 

 "cafe noir" or " caf(5 an lait,", the latter used with 

 good milk, are amongst the most, healthy and agree- 

 able of beverages, the latter particularly so for labour- 

 ing men going to their work in the morning; "cafe 

 noir" is used more as a luxury or ban boiiche, but in 

 both cases the requirements of the consumers are 

 studied. John Bull is too apt to take things by the 

 name they are called, whether coffee or tea, and not 

 to question the particular ingredients, otherwise the 

 consumption of coffee amongst us ought to be much 

 more on a par with the exteut of popuLation ; true it 

 is that beer and alcohol enter more largely into this 

 category of beverages, and il will take a long time be- 

 fore this habit is changed. — South American Journal. 



