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THE tROPlCAL AGRICULTURIST, 



[August i, 1885. 



Gnoss ExpENDrTUBE AND Cost pee pound of Tea, aftee 



DEDUCTING THE DIFFEKENCE IN THE RATES OF EXCHANGE. 



In 1S82, £27,256 ... cost per lb. Os. ll-82d. 

 „ 1SS3, £25.461 ... „ Is 117d. 



„ 1834, £23,707 ... „ Is 018d. 



AccoDNT Sales Weight of Tea, Average Pkices, and 

 Proceeds. 

 In 1882, 553.02716. at Is 3-33d £35,336 

 „ 1883, 4B3,(i8llb. at Is 6-59d 35,927 

 „ 188J, 468,2391b. at Is 5-41d 33,975 

 Dividend. 

 The Directors beg leave to recommend to the members 

 the declaration of a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent, 

 free of income tax, payable on and after May lltb, IS85. 



After providing for this dividend a balance will remain 

 on the pro6t and loss statement for 1884 of £782 10s 3d, 

 which will be carried to the credit of the reserve fund. 

 Dividends Declared. 

 On 1882 crop of tea, 6 per cent. 

 „ 1883 do 74 „ 



„ 1884 do 7 „ 



Reserved Profits. 

 The following sums have been set aside from the prolits 

 asa reserve fund, viz. : — 



From profit and loss account, 1880. ..£1,073 10 11 

 Do do 1881... 1,312 14 



Do do 1882... 199 19 4 



Do do 1883... 688 18 2 



Do Jo 1884... 782 16 3 



Total.. .£4,057 17 2 

 Tea Season, 1885. 

 The manager at Darjeeling has prepared his estimates 

 for 1885 on the basis that fair average weather will prevail 

 throughout the season ; a diminishod rainfall, similar to 

 that experienced during the past season, must necessarily 

 upset an estimate prepared in this way, but under favour- 

 able conditions and estimated quantity of tea ought to be 

 produced. 

 Estimated CnoP of Tea and Expenditure in 1885. 

 Ambotia Plantation, ... 208,000 tfe. R59,2U8 

 Ging do ... 132,000,, 43,434 



Tukdah do ... 108,000 „ 88,660 



Phoobsering do ... 72,000 „ 24,668 



(judder charges ... — 13,834 



Totals.. .520,000 lb. RI79,694 

 Dieectors. 

 Mr. John Farley Leith and Mr. Henry Smith retire from 

 the direction by rotation iiu this occasion, and, _ being 

 eligible, they beg to offer themselves for re-election as 

 Dirsctorsof the Company. 



AnDITOK. 



Mr. John W. Roberts, the auditor of the OottipaBy, begs 

 to offer himself for re-election for the ensuing year.— "if cm" 

 and Colonial Mail, 



(From the Planter and Farmer,) 



Bkbs.— It iii Bitid that theru are In America no less thati 

 three niilliou stocks of bees, producing au annual yitjkl of 

 I2il,(i00,0i:0 lb, of honey, 



It is fM by on AmerlcaU eobteiHJJOtai'y that a good 

 *i)rinkllng of a pint of sulphuric acid, diluted with a pail 

 t)f Water will effectually purity poultry yards if oprlnkled 

 lu theiil. Disease Will be eradicated and noiioui* gases 

 ile^itreyed. It pfTectually keejje cholera awaj*, 



Til a I'lioDUcTiON ol' MaIzb in the United States during 

 1884 is said to have bet<n greater than in any previous 

 vear. It is estimated to have anlounted to 1,875,000,000 

 bubhels. 



Thk avebagk rmcE of wheat in England foi' last J-eaf 

 Was 358 8d. In 1883 it was 41« 7d per quaftef, The 

 loinur is the lowest average for upwards of a century. 

 In 1780 the annual average was the same, viz., 308 8d. 



The Eog trade of Great Britain is simply enormous. 

 lu 1853 the return .show thkt tlio importation of eggs 

 am ouuted to 7,83R,9C8 great hundreds of 120 eggs each, 

 yalBed &% »2,73i,0^9, 



Sweet Potatoes is Japan. — Seventeen square miles 

 iu Kigoshima prefecture are devoted to the cultiv- 

 ation of sweet potatoes. — /a;>an Weekly Mail. 



Cocoa Leaves are thus referred to in the 

 proceedings of the Agri-Horticultural Society of 

 Madras : — Read letter from the Honorary Secretary, 

 dated 4th February 1S85, to Messrs. Thomas Christy 

 & Co., London, enquiring what preparations the leaves 

 of Eryihroxyloji coca require to tic them for the market? 

 Read the following letter from Messrs. Thomas Christy 

 & Co., dated London, 27th February 1S85, in reply :— 

 " Your favour of the 4th inst. is to hind. 1 very 

 much regret you did not act, if it was only to send 

 home 10 to 20 lb. of the coca leaves which are worth 

 here today lOs per lb., when dried in the shade and 

 received green, whereas by your delay of only send- 

 ing perhaps in the course of a month or so, the new 

 leaves will be in from Bolivia, Chili and Brazil, and 

 the price is very likely to fall down to 23 to 3s 

 per lb. We have had to empty all our show bottles 

 80 gnat is the demind for even a few ounces of the 

 le..ve8 for medicinal purposes. The extract from the 

 gifeu leaves ha? been selling as high as lOs an oz. 

 a-.d the alkaloid his been as high as 223 6d the 

 gramme. A pound of leaves when well prepared yields 

 a gramme of alkaloid. If you can send us over a 

 anpiily of the seed in bags by post, we shall be very 

 grateful for it. They only want tying up in bags and 

 direding here. Your earliest attention will muohoblige." 



Gambier and Pepper Plantations in North Borneo, 

 — Iu arldi'ion to the ordinary regulations under which 

 lands are leased it has been thought desirable to issue 

 special regulations having reference to the cultivation 

 of O'lmbier and Pepper, and with this view the court 

 have ordered as follows viz, : — that upon an applic- 

 ation for land being approved for the purposes named 

 a permit will be granted to the applicant to occupy 

 such land rent free for three years, at the expiration 

 of which period a rough survey of the land will 

 be made and a lease will be issued for 99 years for 

 so much of the land as shall have been Under cult- 

 ivation, and for the remaining acreage an extent 

 not exceeding two thirds of the cultivated portion 

 the whole being subject to au annual quit rent of 4Jd 

 per acre. The Company reserve the right to impose 

 au export duty on the produce of such lands. The 

 sale of lands fell short of the estimate for 1884, 

 principally in consequence of the nonpayment of cert- 

 ain large tracts alinated to Australian lirms who 

 however are expected to make good their liabilities 

 during the current year (1885.) — North Borneo Herald, 



AouicuLiURE FOR NATIVES. — Mr. S. Weerackody, 

 Interpreter Mudaliyar of the Kegalla District Court, 

 and a member of the Ceylon Agricultural Associ- 

 ation, sends us Part I of " Waawurawidi Saiigarawa, or 

 a Trtatise on Planting." " This work," the writer 

 says, '' is especially intended for the information 

 of the large class of Sinhalese landowners and cultiv 

 ators who are unable to derive muoli benefit from 

 books on acietttitiu and practical agriculture, publi»hed 

 in English boih in Ceylon and elsewhere," Thti 

 book will be oOiii|jlLied in toU parts, each containing 

 sixteen pages. The prioo iu advance .for the whole 

 book fer registered subscribeiB i<* R2, and each pftrt 

 is sold at 25 cents. Mr, Weerackody, In a Isttee 

 accompanying this part, says ;—" I have acknowledgud 

 in the introuuctiou my deep indebtedness to yoUl" 

 Invaluable journal, and other publicat ons on agri- 

 coltufe issued from the Observer Office, without the 

 aid of which, I must say, itcould hanily have been 

 possible for me to complete my bonk."^ Tuis first 

 part dobtains au Introduction and deals with the Plant, 

 the (oil, aud Manure, vegetable, animal and mineral. 

 The work is ffedicated by permission to Sir Arthur 

 Gordon. Mr. Weerackody deserves well of his fellow- 

 countrymen and >ve ii«p« iu# venture will be 4 fSese^i, 



