mid Magazine of the Ceylon Agricxdtural Society, 001 



Balanue Sheet for 1907. 



1907. £ s. (I. 



Jan. 1. To, Balance brought forward 



from 1916 .. 3,170 



Dec. 31. To, Remittances by 39 



Committee Fo. 16 ..7,0 



Dec. 31. To, Sundries (Exchange 



and Interest Fo. 159 .. 113 16 6 



By, Expenditure : — 

 Doc. 31. In Belgium Fo. 88 

 Switzerland „ 9-' 

 Denmark ,, 112 



Holland „ 145 



Austria ,, 152 



Sweden ,, IBS 



Germany ,, 168 



France „ 172 



Roumania ,, 200 

 By Salary 



„ Travelling expenses 



,, Bank balances: 



National Bank of India 

 Dresden Bank, Berlin 

 Credit Lyonnais 



£ s. d. 



20 



100 



4 9 12 1 



82 3 11 



677 17 6 



5* 9 



4,932 15 5 



1,120 



25 



300 (I 



250 



1,978 2 10 

 121 4 

 146 11 9 



2,248 18 7 



10,283 16 6 10.2S3 16 6 

 (Signed) J H Remton, E. & O. E., 5th Feb., 1908. 

 I hereby certify that I have examined the books and 

 vouchers and they agree in every respect. -(Signed) J A 

 MOKHAM, 5th February, 1908. 



would bo too much ; but ia tho large cities anil 

 towns of England this question of water has had 

 to be studied very closely, and it is well known 

 that a blend that will sell well because it pro- 

 duces a well-flavoured liquor when infused with 

 local water in, say, Liverpool, will be unsuitable 

 for, let us say, Birmingham or Glasgow. Idio- 

 syncrasies of taste have, as we have indicated, 

 also to be taken into account; but the great firms 

 of tea- blenders in London and elsewhere do not 

 omit to take the characteristics of each city's 

 water-supply into consideration when preparing 

 their bleuds, and some grocers in those cities 

 study this matter perhaps still more carefully. 



However, Ceylon tea has unquestionably been 

 gaining favour among the people of the North 

 American Continent. Planters have to consider 

 whether the future development of this trade, that 

 has prospered so well, can be safely left to the 

 merits of their produce. Can the aid given in 

 the way of advertising, and bonus-giving, and so 

 on, be withdrawn without impairing the pros- 

 pects of Ceylon Tea in America ? Whatever 

 Ceylon men may think, a very similar question 

 has to be considered in respect to Iudian tea. 

 — M. Mail, May 25. 



CEYLON TEA IN JAPAN AND AMERICA. 



Dr. Hugh M Smith, Deputy Commissioner of 

 the Bureau of Fisheries, United States Depart- 

 ment of Commerce and Labour, on a visit to 

 Ceylon speaking of Ceylon tea, said he had had 

 it in Japan even in the small Japanese inns in 

 remote places. He explained that the Japanese 

 called it Ko Cha or red tea, as distinguished 

 from their own green tea. Asked if he thought 

 it was pure Ceylon tea, Dr. Smith said he 

 thought it was the same tea as given in Ceylon. 



"CEYLON TEA IN AMERICA." 



Mr. W. A. Courtney, tho Ceylon Tea Com- 

 missioner, has contributed to a New York 

 paper an article on "The Growth of Ceylon 

 Tea." The title is misleading, for the subject 

 dealt with is the growth of the American trade 

 in Ceylon tea ; but what Mr Courtney says is 

 very much to the point. 



Mr Courtney says a few words that may not 

 be wholly palatable to American dealers in tea 

 though there can be little doubt that he writes 

 from knowledge. To some Americans "blending" 

 appears to mean nothing more than thothrowing 

 of two or three different grades of tea together 

 — mere mixing in fact. This idea Mr Courtney 

 wisely seeks to dissipate. He is careful, however, 

 to refer to another important point, and this is 

 the impossibility of expecting that a blend com- 

 posed of ten or more different grades can pos- 

 isbly have the same appearance as a straighttea... 

 Perhaps, however, it would have been well if Mr 

 Courtney had added a few words as to the 



DIFFERENT TASTES AS TO THE FLAVOUR OF TEA 



manifested by different communities, and the 

 influence of the character of the water available 

 at each particular centre of consumption. To 

 urgo the study of the water of each village 



CEYLON TEA EN ROUMANIA. 



Mr. Dinga, of the Roumanian Parliament, 

 now in Ceylon, is to stay some weeks, tour, 

 write a book for Roumanians and a paper to be 

 read to the Bucharest Geographical Society on 

 his return, 



Ceylon tea, he says, has increased greatly 

 in vogue in Roumania, imported via Russia. 

 He adds that tea is sold in the markets, and 

 some who boast of selling Ceylon tea alone 

 actually sell other kinds. This, no doubt, 

 has a bad effect on Ceylon tea. Other kinds 

 were mixed with Ceylon tea and passed off as 

 pure Ceylon tea, Others were benefiting at 

 the expense of Ceylon. The best thing would 

 be to establish a real agency ; that would, he 

 says, help Ceylon a good deal. Mr. Dinga is also 

 interested in studying Ceylon precious stones ; 

 there is a market for them in Roumania. 



TEA SN GERMANY. 



[To The Editor, "Indian Planters' Gazette."] 

 Dear Sir, — I noticed from a late issue of the 

 H. cfc C. Gazette that an "Indian tea house " has 

 been opened the other day in Berlin, and that 

 it was crowded by the public who thronged to 

 inspect the "wonderous Orient within" consist- 

 ing of Indian draperies, brass ware and rich 

 Mirzapore carpets, scarlet ar;<l yellow uniformed 

 Indian servants, serving the fragrant cup be- 

 tween bright pyramids of Indian tea. No 

 doubt the endeavours of those connected with 

 the above mentioned enterprise deserve every 

 praise, but I doubt very much that the consump- 

 tion of tea by the masses will be appreciably 

 influenced thereby; and the calculation that the 

 Germans could consume 360 million pounds of 

 tea, provided their per capita consumption 



