May i i 1890] THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. 
791 
EXPORTS OF INDIAN TEA. 
Indian Tea Association, Calcutta, April 14th. 
Dear Sir, — The General Committee have the 
pleasure to hand you their Monthly Return of ship, 
ments of tea from Calcutta ; — 
Exports of Indian Tea from Calcutta. 
1890 
1889 
1888 
10. 
ID. 
11. 
lb. 
Exports to Great 'Britain iu 
March 
2,782,042 
1,010,703 
571,850 
Exports to Great Britain 
lrum in iv±;iy iu oat 
March 
97,746.652 
92,270,813 
83,155,086 
Exports to Australia and 
New Zealand in March... 
30 
1,951 
56,333 
Exports to Australia and 
New Zealand^ from 1st 
May to 31st March 
3,382*041 
2,858,499 
2,407,979 
Exports to America iu 
March 
10 
13,634 
450 
Exports to America from 
1st May to 31st March .. 
164,707 
169,418 
48,145 
Exports to other places in 
March 
71,967 
213,303 
435,928 
Exports to other places 
from 1st May to 31st 
March 
1,463,971 
1,068,231 
1,088,666 
Tofal Exports from 1st 
May to 31st March 
102,757,371 
96,367,041 
86,699,876 
—Yours faithfully S. E. J. CLARKE, Secretary. 
FAILURES AT FOOCHOW : THE TEA GUILD. 
(From the Foochoiv Echo.) 
Quite a number of piece goods shops, we learn, have 
failed since the beginning; of China New Year and 
their liabilities are computod at §200,000. Owing to 
the inability of the native banks to grant the usual 
advances, it is feared many more failures will yet be 
recorded. The great falling off in the tex trade of la t 
season has greatly affected all o'her trades of the port, 
which are entirely dependent on tea. 
It is with great satisfaction icde:d that we learn, 
that the so-called Tea Guild at this port is shaky, and 
many of it -s members are proposing to dissolve the 
association. We sincerely and earnestly hope that the 
report is true, as we consider this association, which 
was unwieely recognised by foreign mere! ants only a 
few years ago, has caused more harm to the trade than 
good, and no doubt the members themselves have found 
at last that it is so. We are indeed at a loss to 
understand why the interests of tea growers and buyers 
should be entirely placed at the mercy of this Society 
dictating rules and regulations which a feiv of its 
wealthy members only derive any benefit from. Let us 
hope however that as soon as its principal members 
return from Canton, — in whose absence we understand, 
no change cau be effected,— the intended dissolution 
■will be an accomplished faot, which will undoubteJly 
do a great deal of good to the trade. 
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QUININE AND ANTIPYRINE. 
(From G. F. Boehringer &■ Sahne's Report.) 
Waldhof near Mannheim, April 1st, 1890. 
QUININE.— The statistical position of Cinchona Bark is 
constantly improving. Not only do the exports from 
Ceylon, and the arrivals by rail in Colombo, "show a 
large diminution, but also the import and stocks in 
London have undergone a considerable decrease. The 
growth of Java exports 011 the other hand, is but small, 
and remains far below the truths of the prophets. 
Exports from Java. 
1st July 1889 to 15th Maroh 1890 about .'), 520,000 Amsterdam lb. 
Do 1888 to 31st do 1889 do 3,276.574 lb. 
Do 1887 to do do 1SH8 do 2,093,088 lb. 
Do 1886 to do do 1887 do 1,733,163 ">. 
Do 1885 to do do 1886 do 1,153,121 II) 
Business in quinine during the past month bore tho same 
charcter n in February. Speculative purchases were reduced 
to a minimum, while the inquiry for actual consumption was 
continuous and strong. 
Tho increase iu the consumption of qu'nine in Central 
Europe, especially Germany is worthy of note. Iu no other 
country has the enthusiasm for the recently discovered 
antipyretics been so exuberant. Indeed some German 
physicians have entertained exaggerated opinions con- 
cerning the value of the new remedies, whereas ex- 
perience teaches that they are not altogether so harm- 
less and reliable as supposed. Quinine that in our coun- 
try had been somewhat neglected, has lately begun to 
recover that position to which tho experience of half a 
century entitles it. 
Dr. E. Falk of Berlin has commenced the publication 
of a series of articles summing up the observations of 
European and American physicians concerning the effecti 
ofthenew remedies, and to which we may have occasion to 
refer later on. His first article deals with 
ANTIPYRINE. — Among the ascertained consequences, 
partly disagreeable, partly even dangerous of this anti- 
pyretic, the following are given : 1 Vomiting ; 2 Pressure 
or burning pain in the stomach ; 3 Blending (after pro- 
longed use) ; 4 Discolouration of the teeth ; 5 Singing in 
the ears ; 6 Amaurose ; 7 Epilepsy ; 8 (In 10 per cent 
of cases) Eruption of the skin (Exantheme) accompanied 
not unfrequently by most painful itching, irritation and 
fainting. 9 Tumours, 10 Violent sneezing and watering 
of the eyes. By seven authors an absolutely contradictory 
effect of Antipyriue is determined to obtain, the tem- 
perature of the body, instead of falling, rising rapidly 
accompanied by shivering, and to sotue extent by dan- 
gerous symptoms. Subcutaneous injection of antipyrine 
always attended by great paiu, is sometimes followed 
by violent inflammation, formation of abscess, and even 
gangreuo. 
Quinine and Anti-Psrine. — Some remarks 
on these produots by Messrs. Biihringer & Sons of 
Mannheim, given above, well deserve attention. 
They consider the statistical position of cinchona 
bark to be constantly improving. 
Ceylon Tea in America. — In the Tropical 
Agriculturist (Ceylon) for January we find a letter 
from A. Melville White, dated from Philadelphia, 
in which he discusses tho efforts being made to 
introduce Ceylon tea in this country. The Amerioan 
is fond of coffee ; the German-American of beer ; 
the Irish-American of whiskey; but nobody of account 
takes to Ceylon tea, disliking its body and flavor. 
— American Grocer. [We shall see how long it will 
be before the American Grocer alters its tone; the 
English Grocer did not think muoh of Ceylon tea at 
one lime. — Ed. T. A.] 
China Tea is in such a bad way, says the 
Indian Agriculturist — that the time cannot be far 
off when either it will cease to be of aooount in the 
nation's foreign commoroe, or the Chinese Govern- 
ment will be compelled to lower the transit and 
export duties on the staple. These duties amount 
to about 40 per cent on the value of the tea, and no 
doubt they are a weloome contribution to the im- 
perial revenues, seeing that the annual export of tea 
exceeds 200,000,000 lbs. But the producers, who 
have more forethought than the uolleotorsof revenue, 
note that in three years the export has declined from 
290 millions to 214 millions, and they tremble for 
the future, especially when they observe that the 
exports of tea from India and other countries hava 
risen in the same three years from 80 million lbs. 
to 100 millions. The significance of these figures 
is unmistakeable, and it came home very practically 
to the China exporters last year when tea which they 
sent to London at a cost of Is per lb. had to compete 
there with other teas of the same quality at 6d. In 
consequence of this damage to the trade the business 
of growing and drying tea is being negleoted in the 
land of Chang, and many old planters are said to 
find a more lucrative employment in the cultivation 
of the bamboo. 
