March i, 1890.! THE TROPICAL AQTHtJULTU Rl ST. 
Retail prioe per f kilo marks 4 3 70 
Freight via Hamburg is somewhat oheaper. 
Duty is 50 PFg. per I kilo on the gross weight less 
23 per cent tare. 
Discount 30 per oent on 100 lb. for cash. 
25 do do 6 months credit to 
approved buyers. 
20 do on 10 lb. for cash. 
10 do on 5 lb. for cash. 
Parcel Post to any part of Germany and Austria 
is 6d for 10 lb., the tea therefore would be advertised 
as delivered free. 
Commission. — By the sale of small lots, the commis- 
sion would average less ihan a shilling. 
Fixed Expenditure. 
Sale 25,000 50,000 100,000 
Rents &c. 3 Rooms 
Office, packing and bedroom 
Taxes, Insce., stationery &a 
Paoking and office requirements 
Travelling 
Rail and postage on 25,000 lb. 
Salary 
Assistant 
Advertisements 
lb. lb. 
lb. 
150 
100 
1O0 
200 
400 
950 
450 
£750 915 1,400 
Sale of 25,000 50,000 100.000 
At 9d per lb. Gross profit £937 10a Od £1,875 £3,750 
Less fixed expenditure 750 0 0 915 1,400 
Nett Profit £187 10 0 960 2,350 
25,000 lb. equal to about \ per cent^ Of total consump- 
50,000 do do li do > tion in Germany 
100,000 do do 2£ do J viz. 4,000,000 lb. 
Postal orders from Denmark, Norway, Holland and 
Belgium, also from Austria and Switzerland, could be 
exeouted. 
German coinage. — 1 mark equal to Is, 100 pf. (pfen- 
nings) equal to 1 mark. 
H. Sixtus, Esq., Binn, Germany. 
Duty is paid in gross weight in Germany, 23 per 
oent allowed for tare. 
Copy.— Nos. 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33, Wormwood Street, 
OW Broad Street, London, E. O., 30th Dec. 1890. 
Dear Mr. Bremer, — In reply to your enquiry I can- 
not entertain your proposal about the introduction of 
Oeylon tea as such, as from my knowledge of trade 
in tea in England and the Continent it would not 
answer. 
If you call on Mr. J. R. Manning of 9 Bridge St., 
Westminster, one of our Directors, he will hand you 
the papers you left there recently. — I am, dear sir, 
yonrs truly, (Signed) F. G. Horniman. 
The Bamboo Industry in Europe. — This industry 
which originated in Great Britain, is now developing 
also on the Continent. Several Dutch firms have 
oommenoed the manufacture of bamboo furniture, 
whioh oan bo made very oheaply in Holland, as her 
Indian colonies abound in the raw material. That 
the art of making graceful ornaments and household 
articles of bamboo has made rapid progress in 
Holland, was quite recently shewn at a special 
exhibition of artistio furniture held at Haarlem. 
Two or thie3 manufacturers are now exporting their 
goods to France, Germany, and England. Might 
not India and especially Burmah, where the Bamboo 
is exceptionally large and thick, take up this in- 
dustry 1— Indian Agriculturist, Feb. 8th. [And 
Ceylon, even more than at present. Creosoted bam- 
boos might have an extended life in buildings, In 
their ordinary state they last 12 years in the bamboo 
houses rendered necessary by the prevalence of 
earthquakes in Western Java. — Ed. T. A.] 
Grain Production In the Eastern Province 
— It is too often forgotten that there is exported 
or sent coastwise (from Batticaloa to Jaffna) a good 
deal of paddy, the figures for which are given 
in Mr. Bailey's Administration Report on the 
Eastern Province for 1888 : — 
In 1885 Im. .. 100 884 bushels 
1886 .. 126,059 
1887 .. 111,900 
1888 25,981 „ 
To which we add:— 
1889 .. 105,000 
But besides this a great deal is now sent to Badulla 
district, for which we fear we cannot get any figures. 
There is an immense tavalam trade all through 
Bintenna and Wellassa from the sea-board. The 
coast rice business at Batticaloa, is now entirely 
in Chetty hands, and they import a great deal 
of rioe ; but it all goes to the Madulsima, Mona- 
ragala and Badulla planting districts : 131,238 
bushels rice in 1888, and 10">,000 in 1889 were 
imported. The Chetties also buy paddy of Batti- 
oaloa and have it husked by women in consider- 
able quantities. One man has said that if 
maohinery proves successful he will husk 5,000 
ushels a month. 
OEYLON EXPORTS AND DISTRIBUTION 1889-90 
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