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The Supplement to the Tropical Agriculturist 





Broken Pekoe. 



Pekoe. 



Pekoe Souchong, 





Price 



Price 



Price 





As. P. 



A3. 1\ 



As. P. 



1888 



10 3 



g 





'J 3 



1889 



9 9 



7 



5 



5 7 



1890 



8 10J 



7 



2 



5 8i 



1891 



8 ''i 



7 



9 



5 3 1-3 



1892 



11 3'l-3 





6 5} 



1893 



9 2 1-5 



7 



2 2-3 



5 4 4-5 



1894 



11 8 



9 



4 4-5 



7 2 5-7 



1895 



9 





3 4-7 



5 11 



1890 



8 73 



Q 



9 9-10 



6 5i 



1897 



7 5 5-7 



g 



(1? 



4 10 2-3 



1S98 



7 



5 



g 



4 7 



1899 



6 91 



6 



8| 



5 2-3 



1900 



6 



5 







4 1 2-3 



1901 



6' 11 



5 



2 1-3 



4 5 1-3 



1902 



6 1 



5 



2i 



4 3i 



1903 



6 6J 



. 



10 



5 2 



1904 



5110 



5 



4 



4 6a. 



1906 



6 3 



5 



2 



4 2 



1906 



6 8 



5 



7 



4 7 



1907 



7 2 



6 



10 



6 2 



1908 



6 6 



6 







5 2 



1909 



7 8. 



6 



9 



6 



Sales of Indian Tea in London. 

 Messrs. Gow, Wilson and Stanton report that 

 the sales of Indian tea (of the 1909 season) on 

 garden account from July 1, 1909, to June 10, 

 19)0, amounted to 1,534,833 packages as com- 

 pared with 1,371,275 packages sold during the 

 same period in the previous year. The average 

 price realised in 1909-10 was 8'34d per lb. as 

 compared with 7'9d per lb in 1908-09. The de- 

 tails lor each district are as follows : — 



19M-10. 



cent on their aggregate capital of 199 lakhs and 

 7 6 per cent on the total capital of 244 lakhs in 

 that year. Sixty-two companies have up to now 

 declared dividends for 1909 amounting to 96 

 per cent on their aggregate capital of 198 lakhs. 

 The total dividends so far declared for 1909 on 

 an average amount to 7 2 per cent on the total 

 capital of 263 lakhs in 1909. 



The value per R100 of joint stock capital as 

 calculated on the prices of the shares of 68 com- 

 panies quoted in the Calcutta market was RlOO 

 in March, 1909, and of 69 companies was R112 

 in March, 1910. 



Similar particulars about the 69 companies 

 registered in England with sterling capital of 

 £10 2 millions (1,526 lakhs) are available and 

 show that the total dividends declared in 1908 

 by 64 companies out of them with an aggregate 

 capital of £8 millions (1,203 lakhs) amounted to 

 7 2 percent, which means 5 - 8 per cent on the 

 total capital of £10 millions (1,488 lakhs) in that 

 year. This year the dividends declared up to 

 now by the 47 companies come to 3'3 per cent 

 on their aggregate capital of £6 millions (or 934 

 lakhs.) 



Assam (Brahmaputra Valley) 



Cachar and Sylhet (Surma Valley) 



Chittagong 



Darjeeling 



Terai 



Duars 



Kangra, etc. 

 Nilgirisand Wynaad 

 Travancore ... 



© a 

 " ?f 

 £>M 



3 a 



827,656 

 29H.527 

 5,175 

 65,487 

 13,293 

 21!, 044 

 149 

 34,079 

 87,4-3 



© 1 — ■ 



8-97 

 7-09 

 7-01 

 11-73 

 773 

 7-72 

 WOO 

 7-54 

 7-38 



Persons Employed in the Industry. 



The number of persons employed in the in- 

 dustry in 1909 is returned at 515,950 permanently 

 employed and 81,126 temporarily employed. 

 Compared with the return of the previous year 

 there is an increase of 6,462 permanent employes 

 and of 6,407 in the number of temporary hands. 

 In Southern India, the work is sometimes done 

 by contract, and in this case no record of the 

 labour employed is available, and the figures are, 

 therefore, not complete. 



Capital Employed. 



According to the returns of the Registrars of 

 Indian Joint Stock Companies and the account 

 of the companies registered in London as re- 

 ported by the Indian Tea Association, the capi- 

 tal of joint stock companies engaged in the 1!25 

 crores or about £17 millions, viz : — 



Companies registered 



in India 

 Companies registered 



3,86,80,140 



"in London £14,096,658= 21,14,49,870 



Particulars are available concerning the pre- 

 sent position of 84 companies registered in India 

 which have an aggregate paid-up capital of 263 

 lakhs. Of these companies, 62 companies de- 

 clared dividends for 1908 amounting to 9 3 per 



THE RUBBER INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL. 



H.M, Legation in Brazil have furnished the 

 followiBg information relative to the rubber in- 

 dustry in that country :— In 1908, 38,206,461 

 kilogs. of rubber, valued at 11,784,637^. were 

 exported, while in 1909 the exports amounted to 

 39,026,738 kilogs. valued at 18,926,06R, the 

 price per kilog. having risen from 4*030 milreis 

 in 1908 to 7-736 milreis in 1909. These figures 

 show that the statements which have been made 

 that the increase of price was due to a reduction 

 in the amount of Brazilian rubber collected were 

 unfounded; on the contrary, thore was a small in- 

 crease of some 820,000 kilogs. in the production. 



It is only reasonable to suppose that, as the 

 rubber-bearing territory secured to Brazil by her 

 late treaty with Peru is worked, and as the com- 

 munications by river and the Madeira-Mamore 

 railway, which is in course of construction are 

 opened up, the production will largely increase. 

 It must be remembered that Brazil has an enor- 

 mous advantage over the plantations in other 

 parts of the world; in Brazil the only expense 

 in connection with the production of rubber is 

 that of gathering it, while in the case of culti- 

 vated rubber there are all the expenses con- 

 nected with the plantation to be considered. 

 On the other hand, owing to the care taken, 

 the plantation rubber is put upon the market 

 in far better condition than is that of Brazil. 



Although the natural supply of rubber in 

 Brazil seems to be almost inexhaustible, it ap- 

 pears that the authorities of the State of Para 

 are alive to the dangers of the competition of 

 plantation rubber and of the wasteful collection 

 of "seringa," the growth of which is confined 

 to the Amazon. This they show by encouraging 

 the laying out and cultivation of plantations 

 and granting various privileges to the cultiva- 

 tors. — Board of Trade Journal, Aug. 4. 



