January i, 1890,] THF TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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consequently tea hangs fire at first in places ; but 
there is hope and while there is hope we can bear 
up against disappointments. The younger places give 
good promise, but it may be well not to say too much 
about prospects just yet a bit. 
The soil is of a nature which is favourable to tea, being 
free and full of iron, but a free iron soil in a blazing hot 
sun in the lowcountry is not calculated to do much 
till the roots are well down and the bushes show good 
cover. 
The Udugama tea is of good strength, fine liquor, 
pungeot, and delicate flavour. 
The district is about 20 miles from Galle whence tea 
is shipped. As the crow flies the sea is about 12 miles 
off, and this makes Udugama the most salubrious 
district in the lowcountry. It had a bad name when 
the jungles were being opened and malaria was pre- 
valent in newly opened land, but all tropical districts 
have been subject to this. 
Tea can be sent to Galle by road or down the Gin- 
ganga to within a mile of Galle. 
MAY UDUGAMA LONG FLOURISH ! 
[Hear, hear !— Ed.1 
SOME MINOR AILMENTS AND 
THEIR CURES. 
Chronic Rheumatism. — This condition is of suo 
common occurrence that any detailed descriptioh 
of the symptoms is almost uncalled for. The joints 
are most frequently attacked ; the knees, aukles, hips, 
and shoulders usually suffering severely. Sometimes 
the pain is worse at night, but more frequently 
during the day, and on exposure to wet and cold. 
The methods of treating this obstinate condition 
are m any, an indication that there is no specific 
means of curing the disease. Turkish baths are 
useful, and benefit will be obtained from baths con- 
taining Extract of Pumilio Pine. When the pains 
are worse at night, Tabloids of Iodide of Potassium 
may be given, two or more twice during the day, 
and two at bedtime. The Tabloids of Salicylate 
of Soda are also useful, two or three being taken 
two or three times daily. As a local application, 
rubbing with Lanoline is recommended, whilst others 
prefer friction with Hazeline. In many eases a 
change of climate will have to be resorted to, and 
the patient will have to go to Ventnor, Hastings, 
or some other place for the winter. 
Insomnia or Sleeplessness. — Sleeplessness may 
arise from various causes. It may be due to pain, 
to restlessness, or to excessive activity of the brain. 
It is customary in many eases to take moiphia; but 
the administration of morphia, unless under the 
advice of a physician, is to be regarded with sus- 
picion. A better remedy, and one not likely to be 
injurious, will be found in Bromide of Potassium 
Elixoid, given in doses of a tablespoonful or more 
at bedtime. Tabloids of Sulphonal have been found 
almost a specific for most forms of sleeplessness, 
and have the advantage of producing no after-effects. 
Care should be taken to see that the room is pro- 
perly warmed, and that the patient has plenty of 
bed clothes of light kind. 
Sores. — Sores on the skin are generally due to de- 
fective circulation of the part, and are excited by 
a blow or friction. They have a tendency to spread 
so as to form large ulcers. They are by no means 
easy to cure unless the patient will consent to rest 
entirely in bed. The application of bandages will 
often do much good, but more benefit will be ob- 
tained by the use of H /.e ine locally than by any 
other remedy. The bowels should be kept well 
open and the genpval health an 1 strength main 
tained by the administration of Dialysed iron. 
The preparation made by Borroughs, Wellcome & 
Co. is one of the best. — Health, London. 
MR. R. E. PINEO IN MANITOBA. 
PROM CEYLON : — AN EASTERN TEA AGENT ON A BUSINESS 
VISIT TO AMERICA. 
Mr. R. E. Pineo, a gentleman who has come to Ame- 
rica as the representative ot Oeylon tea planters, for 
the purpose of establishing agencies for Ceylon tea, ar- 
rived here yesterday afteinoou from Vancouver. He 
has with him two Hindoo servants, man aud wife, 
who travel in their native costumes, whii h makes 
them interesting object* in this part of the globe. Mr, 
Pineo has lived in In J ia since 1858, aud is thoroughly 
acquainted with the political and commercial affairs of 
that and tributary countries. He says that the C. P. R. 
is a grand route for East Indian and Australian trade 
for American points, and he is confident if the com- 
pany establishes agencies at Hongkong for the through 
billing of freight ehat immense trade could be deve. 
loped, as the route is the shortest in existence. He in. 
tends interviewing Mr. Van Horne on the subjeot when 
he reaches Montreal. Mr. Pineo is enthusiastic on the 
matter of Oeylon tea ; he claims that it is the best fla- 
vored, purest and cleanest tea made in the world. 
Mr. Pineo will establish agencies in all the leading 
wholesale countries of Canada and the United States, 
including Winnipeg. Mr. Pineo says that Ceylon is 
a grand country. The chief products of the country 
are tea, cotton and tropical fruits. The natives com- 
prise Boers, Buddhists, Oeylonese, tamaus and mon- 
grels. Oeylon is the Mecca of (he Buddhists. Mr. 
Pineo leaves this morning for Montreal, going via St' 
Paul and Chicago. This is his second trip around the 
world, and he has crossed the Atlantic and Paoifio 
Oceans eighteen times.— Maintoba Daily Free Press. 
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TOBACCO: LONDON BORNEO TOBACCO CO. 
The report to be presented at the first yearly general 
meeting states: — The number of fields planted this 
seasou is about 150. The directors had reason to be- 
lieve that a larger amount of fields would have been 
cropped this first year, but the inevitable difficulties 
of^tartiug an almost entirely new enterprise in a new 
country have not been altogether overcome. The 
company was exceedingly unfortunate whilst in the 
full swing of preparation to lose suddenly, by death, 
the services of ther manager, Mr. Bense, a gentleman 
who, the directors had every reason to believe, was 
eminently fitted to carry on the important duties of 
his position. Two of the European assistants were also 
invalided about the same time. Unfortunately for 
this year's crop the British North Borneo Company, 
at th f very moment when most assistance was required 
from them, found themselves, from no fault, perhaps 
of their own, but in consequence of a small war being 
suddenly forced upon them, nnable to give all the assis- 
tance anil protection required ; moreover, the large 
number of desertions that took place, and the necessity 
of u idertaking, until another manager could be obtained 
from Deli, the practical management of the estate, 
crpp'ed the hands of our managing director, and pre- 
vented him from either planting the number of fields 
he bad intended or of obtaining satisfactoiy results from 
the employment of the labour hired and paid for. 
There is every reason to expect that the difficulties 
previously referred to will not occur again, as a telegram 
just rrceived from the managing director, dated Singa- 
pore, Dec. 9tl , reports all operations going on favour- 
ably, hea'tb ol c dies good, and prospects of labour 
supp'y favourable, 
As opei ing new estates, especially on a large scale, 
is eviden'ly attended with considerable risk of sickness 
and consequent loss, the directors have decided uot to 
otrernpt to carry 0'it the original idea of cultivating 
1 500 tiel !s iu 1890, I > n t full preparations are now going 
au for planting about 80 fields, new man gers of ability 
have beeu obtained, and Uifl local government are doing 
all in .their p >wer to help the enterprise. — L. and C, 
Hxpr ess, Hecr. 20th. 
