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The Supplement to the Tropical Agriculturist 



JAVA TEA EXPORTS IN 1908. 



The closing quotations are : — 



° Per lb. 



For Sheets and Biscuits 5a 4ci to 5s 4id 



Crepe, good and tine pale 5s 3d to 5s 7d 



„ Mottled and dark 4s 6d to 5s ud 



Scrap 3s 9d to 4s 4d 



Worms 5s 4d to 5s 7d 



Block 5s lOd 



Bambong, Crepe 4s 4d 



Scrap 4s Od 



Fine Para (Amason) 5s lid 



London Stock of Plantation Rubber : — 



1908. 1907. 1906. 



31st December 136 tons. H 5 tons. 78tons. 

 For the fortnightly fluctuations in prices both 

 for Wild Para and Plantation for the last four 

 years, see our special Chart. 



Lewis & Peat, Brokers. 



MORE CARAVONICA COTTON SEED 

 ON THE MARKET. 



An advertisement appears elsewhere, announ- 

 ces another source from which this seed is obtain- 

 able and this advertiser informs us that his is a 

 highly cultivated Caravonica cotton seed and that 

 he intends to keep on improving both texture and 

 yield as much as possible and to supply reliable 

 seed only. His present crop he has not yet 

 finished picking, but a parcel of 25 cwt. seed 

 cotton he ginned for seed gave a return of 49 "5%, 

 and an equally good return is anticipated from 

 the remainder of the crop. 



COTTON PLANTATIONS IN EGYPT. 



The benefits of the Assouan Reservoirs are 

 plainly shown in the comparative list which we 

 publish below of the cotton area cultivated 

 before and after the Reservoir : — 

 Upper Egypt. 



Years 



Fed. 



Kan tars 



1902-3 



95,356 



471,150 



1907-8 



313,956 



1,278,000 





Lower Egypt. 



1902-3 



1,180,324 



5,367,640 



1907-8 



1,289,268 



58,222,000 



— Egyptian Post, Jan, 14. 



PRODUCTION AND EXPORT OF 

 JAVA TEA 



is undoubtedly on the increase and Java 

 must be reckoned with for the future as an 

 important factor in the world's supply. The 

 figures we publish elsewhere, show an increase 

 during 1908 of 7£ million lb, over the crop 

 of 19U7— a 25 per cent, increase ! The 

 monthly crop returns have shown a steady 

 increase, which indicates that the advance will 

 be permanent. Nor has the production of Java 

 yet reached its full capacity. A number of 

 estates will only return larger yields with 

 increasing age. Java's tea shipments to 

 England from 1st January to 31st December, 

 1908 are 12,629,513 1b. against 9,107,312 lb, for 

 the corresponding period of 1907. To other 

 countries they have been 36,579,536 lb. against 

 29,288,402 lb. Holland takes 4£ million half- 

 kilos more than in 1906, England about 1 

 million and Russia nearly half-a- million more 

 than in 1907. We commend the figures which 

 appear elsewhere to the attention of "the 

 trade" and growers in Ceylon. 



19U7 

 191 10 

 1905 

 1904 



[" Bureau Tea-Expert."] 



Circular No. 98 Bandoeng, 20th Jan., 1909". 



Java Tea Exports to end of Dec— in Half-Kilos. 



Year Holland England Kussia Australia 



1908 .. 18,237,684 11,481,376 1,172,860 806,030 



1907 ... 14,?45,F8S 8,313,920 739,60! 658,322 



1906 .. 13,899,9j"6 9,942,76 i 563,110 162,232 



1905 .. 13,199,354 8,246,498 1,109,060 211,854 



Other Total Half 



ports Kilos English lb. 



182,148 33,254,124 H K 3rt.-579.638 



850,966 26,624,002 H K 29,286,406 



186,972 24,959,108 H K 27,455,012 



346,492 23,408,324 H K 25,749,156 



— 22,619,144 H K 24,771,058 



190 1 — — 20,347,598 H K 22,382,357 



1902 ... — — 15,3)5,886 HK 16,880,474 

 1901 .. — — 15,214,234 HK 16,735,657 



a Singapore figures are for transhipment prob- 

 ably to Russia (via China ports). 



Note. — With very large December shipments 

 amounting to 3,407,00J H. K., which are the 

 largest monthly figures on record, the total in- 

 crease in the Java crop for 1908 has finally 

 proved to be 6,630,000 H.K. or 7| million English 

 pounds more than in 1907. 



This is an extraordinary advance to be made 

 in one year (a 25 per cent increase), especially 

 when it is considered that last year exports were 

 only 26,624,000 half kilos— which relatively small 

 figures should not allow for the large differences 

 that are possible in the Calcutta exports of some 

 220,000,000 English pounds or the 180,000,000 

 pounds from Colombo. 



Crops have shown steady increase during each 

 month of the year, which is a sure sign that the 

 increase will be a permanent one and that the 

 increased exports are not due to better con- 

 ditions either climatic or local, but to the natu- 

 ral increase from new areas of tea and from a 

 large number of estates which are still coming to 

 their full producing figures with increased age. 



There seems to be an idea that the Java figures 

 are never made up with perfect accuracy, but 

 the above figures must be taken as being as 

 nearly correct and official as is possible under 

 the present conditions of shipment and custom 

 house returns. 



Tea Shipments in 1907 and 1908 from India, 

 Ceylon, North China and Java. 



To England. 



British India 1st April to 15th December 1908 142,48 i,'.-9i 

 " 136,574,880 

 09.900,000 

 69,779,598 

 7,410,461 

 9,948,552 

 12,629,513 

 9,167,312 

 Total 



To Other English 

 Countries, pounds. 

 British India 1st April to loth Bee. 1908 44,417,497 186,901, 4S9 



— „- 19U7 44,616.805 181,091,745 



Ceylon 1st May to 21st Dec. o7,<i.»0,<iJU l< 6,986,046 



— „- 1907 36,596,627 106,376,225 



Murmhui 1st May to 11th Dec. 1908 41,525,504 51,933,965 



— „— 1907 4U.751.88U 50,700,441 



Java 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 19 8 23,950,023 36,579,536 



-„— 1907 20,119,090 29,v86,10i 



- H. Lambe. 



1907 



1st May to 21st December 1908 

 — „— 1907 

 1st May to 11th December 1908 

 — „— 1907 

 Java 1st January to 31st December 1908 

 1907 



Ceylon 

 Shanghai 



