The Supplement to the Tropical Agriculturist 



decade. A primary cause for this is that the 

 world's visible supply of coffee on the 30th June 

 last, 11,085,000 bags, was considerably lower 

 than it had been since August, 1906. The 

 deliveries of coffee, both in Europe and the 

 United States last season, were somewhat 

 below the average for the last five years, but 

 this cannot be ascribed altogether to a falling- 

 offin consumption, since the stocks in both 

 countries at the end of Jnne last were consider- 

 ably smaller than they had been at any time 

 during the last five years. But the figures 

 which will probably most interest the older 

 planters are the estimates of the current season's 

 coffee crop in all the coffee producing countries 

 of the world, which have been tabulated with 

 the greatest care by four firms of leading Rotter- 

 dam coffee-brokers, viz, Messrs. Duuring and 

 Zoon, Dalen and Plemp, Kolff and Witkamp, 

 and Leonard, Jacobson and Zonen. Side by 

 side with these figures we give in the following 

 table the actual yields, in bags of 60 kilos each, 

 obtained in each of these different countries in 

 the two previous seasons, i.e., the twelve months 

 ending the 30th June, 1910, and ] 91 1 : — 



WHITE-ANT-PROOF TIMBER. 



1911-12. 

 (Estimates 

 Rio and Santos 13,500,000 

 Bahia & Victoria 470,000 

 Mexico, Costa Rica, 



Guatemala, New 



Granada, Central 



America ... 1,650,000 

 Laguayra, P. Ca- 



bello, Mara- 



caibo. ... 1,000,000 



Cuba, Porto Rico, 



and British West 



Indies 

 Hayti 



Java, Government 



and Private ... 

 Padang 



Menado, Macassar, 



Timor, etc. ... 

 British East Indies 



and Manilla... 175,000 

 Africa, Mocha, etc. 160,000 



1910-11. 1911-12. 

 ) (Actual.) (Actual. 

 10,548,000 14,944,000 

 350,000 409,000 



1,750.000 1,523,000 



950,000 1,070,000 



180,000 

 400,000 



330,000 

 50,000 



150,000 

 350,100 



200,000 

 40,000 



18,000 20,000 



120,000 

 150,000 



230,000 

 451,000 



127,000 

 59,000 



13,000 



207,000 

 142,000 



Total ... 17,933,000 14,628,000 19,175,000 



If this estimate proves nearly correct, and the 

 deliveries in Europe and the United States 

 remain as last year, viz., 17,663,000 bags, it is 

 evident that the statistical position of coffee at 

 the end of this season will remain very much 

 as it was at its commencement. On the other 

 hand, if the crops turn out as estimated, and 

 the deliveries equal those of two years ago, viz.. 

 18,824,000 bags, the world's visible supply of 

 coffee will be reduced and prices will probably 

 increase. It is noteworthy that in the record 

 year, 1903-07, when over 20,000,000 bags of 

 coffee were shipped from Brazil alone, the total 

 production in the word amounted to 24,020,000 

 bags and the deliveries in Europe and America 

 to only 17,677,000 bags. The price of No. 7 

 quality Rio in New York varied during that 

 season between 5'20 and 6 95 cents per 'lb., or 

 about half what it is at present. 



THE CYPRESS OF WESTERN 

 AUSTRALIA. 

 Interesting Particulars, 



A Perth (W. A.) correspondent writes : — In 

 tropical countries the depredations of the white- 

 ant are as familiar to most people as anything 

 possibly could be. Large sums of money have 

 been allocated in various Eastern dependencies 

 of the Empire to stimulate research work which 

 may result in an exterminator of the dread ther- 

 mites being formed. So far, however, success 

 has not been recorded. There are palliatives, but 

 at best these are mere stop gaps. A timber able 

 to resist white-ants has long been wanted, and 

 now it appears to have been found in the great 

 north-west of this State. So important is the 

 subject that no excuse is necessary for detailing 

 the virtues of the Cypress pine, for such is the 

 name given to thetree which produces this extra- 

 ordinary wood. Mr. C. Young has lately reached 

 Perth from the north-west, where he located a 

 belt of Cypress pine. I asked Mr. Young to tell 

 me all about it, and his reply was : — 



" The timber growing on my land is what is 

 generally known as Cypress Pine (Calistris Ro- 

 busta) and grows, in many instances, to a height 

 of 80 feet and upwards, with a diameter of 2 feet. 

 The area is situated 40 miles from the Port of 

 Wynilham, the most northerly port of Western 

 Australia. The western boundary of the area 

 is only some ten miles from a navigable arm 

 (that is up to ten feet of the dead low tide) 

 of the Cambridge Gulf. The grain of the timber 

 is very close and works up to some satinlike 

 polish ; one of its several features is that 

 it does not warp, twist or shrink in the process 

 of drying or seasoning. It is not only white- 

 ant proof, but is the most valuable timber 

 known for use in the construction of jet- 

 ties and wharves where the teredo plays 

 such havoc with other woods. I have 

 long resided in the north-west of the State, and 

 the white-ants there are as plentiful as anywhere 

 in India, Ceylon, or the Straits, and 1 can 

 emphasize strongly the imperviousness of the 

 Cypress pine to the thermites. Many of the 

 telegraph poles used in the northern territory 

 between Port Darwin and Pine Creek are of 

 Cypress pine, and have been erected thirty- 

 nine years ago and are sound as a bell today. In 

 white-ant infested countries, the Cypress pine 

 is of unique value for railway sleepers. There 

 is, of course, its value in the manufacture of 

 furniture and internal decorative work of 

 houses. It lends itself in both cases to as- 

 tonishingly beautiful results. There is no fear 

 of the timber being exhausted. On the area 

 referred to alone I estimate the present cutting 

 capacity at 300,000 loads of 600 feet per load. 

 Unlike most forest areas the cutting of the 

 already marketable timber would not mean the 

 extinction of the forest. Millions of young 

 pines in all stages of growth are there to take 

 the place of those cut. The Cypress pine only 

 grows in its natural state in the white-ant 

 infested area. The pine forests are found over 

 an enormous territory of the north of Austra- 

 lia, but at present, owing to inaccessibility, 



