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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [November i, 1889 
instance the Linsum Estate in Suugie Ujong gave in 
1887 the first year the coffee was in full bearing 6 J cwts. 
an acre of c;eaned coffee; in 1588 just short oi 10 cwts. 
an acre, and up to July 31sb o! this j ear 81/5 cwts. 
have already been gathered. The adjoining estate, 
S'liao, in 1887, the first year (the coffee was all over 
tour years) gave5J cwts. or cleaned coffee to the acre, 
in 1888 it increased to 11 cwts. per acre, and up to 
July 31st or this year 6§ cwts. have been taken off the 
Estate. 
In Selangor there have been equally satisfactory 
results. Weld's Hill Estate in 1887, the first year the 
Estate was in full bearing, gave 7g cwts. an acre, in 
1888 close on 9 cwts. per acre and this year up to July 
31st it has already given 7j cwts. per acre. 
Batu Caves Estate in Selangor, when the coffee was 
under 4 years old, gave 5 cwts. an acre, and this year up 
to July 31st it has already given 4§ cwt. an acre. So 
important did we consider this information that we 
personally visited Messrs. Hill and Rathborne's office 
where they kindly allowed us to examine and verify the 
above figures from their report and account books. 
Such magnificent results from Liberian coffee, com- 
ing as it does after the collapse of the Rawang Tin 
Mine, will go far towards proving what we have so 
consistently maintained that in the Straits Settlements 
there is a fine field for the investment of Capital m 
planting and agriculture, when guided by experience 
and forethought. 
What we believe is essential to the future develop- 
ment of agriculture in the Straits is that every facility 
should be given to Indian labour to come to the Straits, 
and that advances given in India should be recoverable 
in the Straits, and that the agricultural labourer should 
arrive as a free man, who can, if he feels so disposed, 
refund any monies he may have received, and after 
giving one month's notice to his employer, may be free 
to go elsewhere. We be ieve the coffee planters are 
ready and willing to give 23 cents or equal to 51| rupee 
cents per day for good labourers. 
At present the monopoly of recruiting for the Straits 
is in the hands of a few people, and respectable rec- 
ruiters going from the Straits to bring their fellow- 
villagers are often arrested on trivial pretexts, and 
locked up in the Police stations. When released they 
come out but to fiud their gang scattered, and all their 
coolies disappeared. 
The presi nt restraints a' id difficulties which surround 
the Indian Agricultural labourer leaving his country 
to go and better himself in a neighbouring Colony 
under the same Government, are scarcely credible, 
and a grave responsibility rests upoa these who direct 
our Imperial policy when such an anomaly exists of 
thousands nearly starving in one portion of Her 
Majesty's dominions and Indian finances seriously 
imperilled thereby, while in another and not distant 
portion of the same dominions, employers of labour 
are clamouring for constant further supplies, which 
demand is met, though inadequately, by a continuous 
influx of Chinese. These take away their earnings and 
spend them amongst an alien race, whereas the loyal 
Indian subjects of Great Britain, who are also better 
customers uf English manufactures are prevented by a 
paternal government from coming freely to the 
Peninsula and participating in its general prosperity 
which would enable them to remit funds to be spent, 
among their couutrymen in British dominions and thus 
in a certain measure help to alleviate local distress re- 
sulting from the serious famines which too often occur 
audaie naturally so much dreaded. 
L iberian Coffee Chops Statistics 
From Estates in the Protected Native 
States of the Malay Peninsula. 
Lin'hum Estate in Sunoei TJ.iong. 
188-1 
1885. 
28 ac. under 4 years ) 
3 ac. under 3 „ J 
28 ac. over 4 „ \ 
12 ac. under 4 „ > 
25 ac. under 3 „ j 
Produced 
pikuls. cwt. 
84 or 99 
312 or 37Qi 
1S86. 
1887. 
1888. 
1889. 
(7mo.) 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
1888. 
1889. 
(7mo.) 
1886. 
1887. 
1888. 
1889. 
(7mo.) 
1888. 
1889. 
(7 mo.) 
— S. F. 
40 a". 
25 ac. 
65 ac. 
do. 
do. 
over 4 years ) 
under 4 ,, J 
in full bearing 
• do. 
do. 
Produced, 
pikuls. cwt. 
311 or 369 
345 or 409 \ 
512 or 643* 
518 or 615 
S'lian Estate in Sungei Ujong. 
8 ac. 
28 ac. 
8 ac. 
28 ac. 
9 ac. 
36 ac. 
9 ac. 
45 ac. 
45 ac. 
under 4 years \ 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
19 ac. 
36 ac. 
55 ac. 
55 ac. 
55 ac. 
i 
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i 
in full bearing 
do. 
Weld's Hill Estate. 
under 4 years ) 
under 4 „ J 
in full bearing 
do. 
do. 
Batu Oaves Estate. 
12 ac. under 4 years 
12 ac. under 5 years 
Press. 
78 or 92 
284 or 336 
208 or 238 
417 or 495 
300 or 366 
274 or 325 
339 or 402 
422 or 501 
406 or 482 
60 or 69| 
46 or 54^ 
Deli Tobacco.— The tobacco estates belonging to 
Messrs. Naher and Grob have been sold to the 
Senembah Tobacco Company, whose directors are 
J. Nienhuys and Dr. JanseD. The Fortuna Estate 
formerly owned by Mr. Lysius has been purchased 
by a company for $15,000. — Pinang Gazette and 
Straits Chronicle, Oct. 4th. 
Patent Ploughs and Sugar-cane Mills. — Mr. A. 
S. Massey, Engineer and Partner in the Napier 
Works, Madras, has filed specifications for the con- 
struction of light ploughs, and for improvements in 
sugar-cane mills. — Indian Agriculturist, Sept. 21st. 
Coffee Planting under Shade. — We draw 
attention to the letter of Mr. W. A. Tytler, following 
that of Mr. J. P. Hunt of Coorg, on this subject. 
The information given by the latter is well applied 
by our correspondent today to the circumstances of 
Ce ion; and we have no doubt from the inquiries 
made about Coorg seed as well as shade trees, 
that ODe and another proprietor will be quietly 
following the gentlemen who have already begun 
in Dumbara and Uva, to do a little under new 
arrangements, with the old staple and favourite 
coffee. As W. A. T. well says, an average crop from 
a coffee field is a far more desirable thing than 
the average return from a tea clearing, both in 
respect of the less trouble and the better compara- 
tive prices. 
Relationship of Tea, Coffee and Cocoa to Pro- 
ducts of Tissue Waste. — Xanthine is closely allied to 
theobromine, the active principle of cocoa, and caffeine 
of tea and coffee, for the former is dimethyl, and 
the latter is trimethylxanthioe. The stimulating effect 
upon the brain of cocoa, and to a still greater degree 
of tea and coffee, is universally known. This stimulat- 
ing action would lead us to regard them as belonging 
to the class of products formed during sleep. During 
the waking hours we might reasonably expect that the 
substances formed, at least in the early part of the 
day, would have no narcotic action, even although they 
should be products of oxidation, but as the clay went 
on the products of waste might gradually assume a 
more and more soporific character, until in the evening 
they again produced sleep. If this were so, we might 
naturally expect that by oxidation of some of the 
stimulant substances I have mentioned we might get 
products having no very marked physiological action, 
and others having a narcotic action. — Pharmaceutical 
Journal. 
