June 2, i8yo.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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7k /fo Editor. 
CEYLON TEA IN AMERICA. 
New York, U. S. A., March 29th. 
Dear Sir, — Just before leaving London I wrote 
you saying that I was intending to visit New York 
while taking a holiday, as we are very anxious to 
see for ourselves what is taking place in foreign 
markets for Ceylon tea. 
I feel sure that you, and Ceylon tea planters 
generally will like to hear what is taking place in 
New York in reference to the Ceylon tea industry. 
I am glad to be able to tell you that after seeing 
numerous people connected with tea here I find that 
very great efforts are being made to force Ceylon 
and Indian tea into consumption. I have come 
across various firms who sell considerable quantities 
of these teas. Many houses blend them with other 
teas and find a good and increasing business for 
them. There are so many firms now pushing them 
that even those firms whose interest lieB entirely 
in China and Japan teas, and have on that account, 
no wish to see Ceylon or Indian teas introduced, 
are ready to admit that remarkable efforts are being 
made to increase their sale and that the industry 
will be a growing one. 
The Ceylon Planters' American Tea Company 
have a shop in the centre of the fashionable 
shopping quarter, which is admirably situated, and 
is in addition so elegantly fitted up that I believe 
it cannot fail to attract considerable attention. 
The window is so planned as to draw the notice of 
passers-by — of whom there are a very great number, 
composed largely of the fashionable class, and the 
interior of the shop appeared to me particularly 
attractive and artistic. I believe that the Company 
is likely to do a good work for Ceylon and that 
although progress will at first no doubt be slow, 
the sale of Ceylon tea will be materially helped by 
the efforts of the Company, and by the manner in 
which they propose endeavouring to increase the 
sale. I was much pleased with all that Mr. Pineo 
told me of his work as well as all I heard from 
Messrs. Wattson & Farr, and I think that they are 
fully determined to make the thing a success. 
I will not now add more as you will doubtless 
hear detailed accounts of the Company— and pro- 
bably too of the work which is being done by a 
section of the trade in pushing the sale of Ceylon tea. 
I shall probably write you again from Montreal 
or other places through which I may pass in order 
to let you know my impressions of the condition 
and prospects of the Ceylon tea trade in these places. 
—I am dear sir, yours faithfully, 
A. G. STANTON, 
(Gow, Wilson & Stanton.) 
ENGINEERING ENQUIRY AND ANSWER, 
Dear Sir, — With reference to Inquirer's letter 
in your issue of 12th inst., he will find a good deal 
of information bearing on the question in Goodeve's 
Elements of Mechanism. I do not think friotion 
would be greatly increased by driving with a long 
endless wire and thus transmitting power to a dis- 
tance. The chief loss in friction would be the addi- 
tional weight of the wire and the extra mechanism 
which would have to be employed as these wires 
where employed are driven at very high rates of 
speed, which would involve suitable mechanism to 
reduce the speed where the machinery is such as 
tea rollers etc Where the wire is driven at a very 
high velooity, a very slender wire can transmit great 
108 
power : in an instance given by Goodeve, a wire 
rope | inch diameter run upon pulleys, each 15 
feet in diameter and makiog 100 revolutions per 
minute, the pulleys are driven by 3 turbines and 
develope 750 horse-power. He goes on to say that 
" no less than 17 factories in different positions 
have been supplied with motive power from one 
Bet of turbines, and it is stated the total length of 
transmission is 3,300 feet." The rope travels at a 
velooity of about 53 miles an hour. It is im- 
portant to bear in mind that the greater the volocity 
the wire travels at the less strain there is on it 
and with a slower velooity a muoh thicker wire 
would be required. With properly grooved pulleys 
there would be little or no loss from slipping. He 
also gives an instance where a cotton rope § inch 
diameter and weighing only 1| oz. per foot is em- 
ployed for actuating a crane adapted for lifting 25 
tons. The velocity of the rope is 5,000 feet per 
minute which would be reduced by suitable me- 
chanism to 1 foot 7i inches per minute and the 
requisite work would be done by subjecting the oord 
to no greater strain than that of 109 lb. — Youra 
truly, SABARAGAMUWA. 
CEYLON TEA IN LONDON. 
13, Rood Lane, London E. C, April 11th, 1890. 
Dear Sirs, — We are in receipt of iyour favour o* 
12th ult. with enclosures and we now thank you 
for the suggestions contained, both in them and 
in the letter in your paper of 6th March, to which 
you refer us. 
As regards the main suggestion in " Critic's " 
letter, that we should ^show the deliveries for Home 
Consumption, and the Exports separately, it will 
be seen on reference to our Circular of February 
14th that we had anticipated it. 
It is only since the commencement of this year 
that the Board of Trade separated the Exports of 
Indian, Ceylon, and China etc tea, they having 
formerly been grouped under one heading, viz., 
"Exports of Tea." We think we may take the 
credit of first inducing the authorities to consider 
this alteration, as we have continually urged it upon 
them for some considerable period. These detailed 
figures are only obtainable about the middle of 
each month, and, as it is necessary for us to pub- 
lish prompt information for our friends here, 
we cannot do otherwise than continue our tables 
as at present, in the earlier issues of each month. 
Regarding the suggested new table, we appreciate 
the idea, and are considering the possibility of 
oarrying it out. 
The amount of tea destroyed as " unfit for food" 
is small, and we are glad to say as regards Ceylon 
tea, insignificant. 
Again, referring to our Circular of the 14th Feb. 
the two tables contained therein which, acoording 
to your correspondent " appear to confuse matters," 
were given by us with a speoial object, which was 
mentioned in that Ciroular. The followiug table of 
movements of all tea from the London bonded 
warehouses during the year 1889, will show that 
the amount removed in bond to other warehouses 
though an important quantity was nothing like so, 
great as your correspondent seems to suppose. 
Deliveries of tea from London Bonded War e hou3esf 
during 1&}9. 
Duty pnid from Warehouse ; 159,920,427 
From ship : 81^453 
160,001,880 lb. 
