September i\ 1887.I THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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resorted to and 2,400 lb. per acre may be expected - 
The loppings of the 3rd year contain only \ per cent 
of quinine increasing \ per cent each year till after 
10 years 5 per cent is expected. The collection of 
A and 1 per cent barks in the 3rd and 4th year will 
depend ontirely on the market. 1 per cent is now 
considered just sufficient to cover the expenses of 
collection. . 
The Succirubra loppings give 180 lb. in the 5th year 
(those of the 3rd and 4th not being saleable now) 
increasing yearly to 480 lb. in the 10th and yield 2,000 lb 
per acre in the six years after which none hut robust 
trees will remain. To obtain fine quill bark the plant 
ations must, bo left to 15 to 20 years of age when 
3,000 lb per acre may be expected. 
The exports from Uva Ceylon are likely to increase. 
U. llobusta is recommended by Dr. Paul for Ceylon, 
and both he and Blessrs. Howard say prices cannot 
rise till Oeylou shipments fall off but would do so if 
they would cease to export twig and inferior barks. 
The Honorary Secretary was requested to thank the 
Secretary of the Oeylon Association for this very inter- 
esting report and to ask if Ceylon cannot give Ciuchona 
statistics in return for those from Java and Wynuad. 
IV. Cattle Tresspass. — Head letters from Messrs. 
Hinde 4 Co. and the Collector of Malabar. 
Resolved that as the matter is receiving the atten- 
tion of Government, the Association will await their 
decision before agitating further, but the Honorary 
Secretary was requested to find out what measures 
Government found necessary for the protection of 
Forest Reserves thai similar measures might be asked 
for in aid of Plantations. 
The Honorary Secretary was further instructed to 
ask the Collector of Malabar to erect a pound at 
Meppadi. 
V. Roads. — It was stated that the Battery road is 
n a very bad state; that inconsequence the price of 
grain in Vythery has been raised ; that the Coffee 
crop is expeoted to be very early this year especially 
on the Battery side, and that the present allowance 
of 5 coolies a mile is totally inadequate to prevent 
the road becoming impassable much less to improve it. 
The Honorary Secretary was requested to write the 
President District Board and point out that though 
ample funds were voted, none seem to be applied 
with any eifect, and that the road connecting Wynaad 
with Mysore, the cliief source of grain; and the best 
cropping district of Wynaad with the coast, is con- 
sequently the worst in the Taluq. 
VI. Juhilee Halt..— Resolved that Messrs. Winter- 
botham, Jowitt, and Hockin be requested to form a 
Committee to select a site for the proposed Hall. 
The site to be as near Ohundale as possible. 
VII. Papkks on Tablk. — G. O Revenue No. G13, 
G14, 24th Juno 1887, on cultivation of lpeeacuauha, 
stating there is a possibility of the supplies from S. 
America, ceasing, and Government hope private enter- 
prise will take up the cultivation. It grows best at 
Nilambur. 
G. O. Revenue No. 031 on manuring Cinchonas. 
iieport of the Ceylon Plantors' Association for year 
ending February 1S87. 
Report on Coffee and Cocoa written by order of 
the Royal Commissioners for the Colonial and Indian 
Exhibition 1880 by Mr. Pasteur. The Honorary Secret- 
ary was requested to write and thank the author. 
Report of the N. Mysore Planters' Association. 
Proceedings of Wynaad Taluk Board. 
VIII. Place oi Meeting.— The next meeting will 
be hold at the Volunteer Reading Room, Vayitri, by 
kind permission of Capt. Walker. 
(Signed) J. R. Malcolm, Chairman. 
„ J. William- Hockiv, Hon}/. Secy. 
nyjBH0cui.0E.vTii Of Cocaine in Veieuisauy 
Phac'Itce.— The Inspector of Cattle Diseases, Madras 
Presidency, writes in his report for ^885-86 : Having 
heard a great deal regarding the advantages of the 
Use of llydrochlorito of Cocaine in operations on the 
human eye, I eided, on the first Opportunity, to 
give it a trial, fortunately, a case of "worm in the 
eye" (I'daria oeuli) was admitted into tin- Veterinary 
Hospital on the 2nd of June 18S5. The patient wm 
a large waler mare, extremely troublesome and nervous 
in fact, it was with the utmost difficulty that anything 
like a good view of the eye could be obtained. I 
therefore cast her, when the parasite was clearly seen 
wriggling about in the aqueous humour. There was 
slight inflammation, with partial opacity in the lower 
portion of the cornea, involving nearly one-half of its 
surface, which was undoubtedly brought about by the 
case having been allowed to go too far before surgical 
aid was sought for, as the worm had been noticed in 
the eye fifteen days before the mare was brought to 
me. I procured a solution containing one grain of 
cocaine in twenty-five minims of water, of a strength 
of 4 per cent. ; the Membrana Nictitans was held 
back and the solution painted over the surface of the 
cornea, conjunctiva and eyelids with a camel's hair- 
brush. In about ten minutes complete anaesthesia 
had taken place, with considerable dilatation of the 
pupil. I then made a small puncture with the point 
of a Macnamara cataract knife, well guarded with lint 
at the upper portion of the cornea, through which 
the Filaria escaped. In a little less than twenty 
minutes sensation returned to the eye. No inflamm- 
ation followed the operation, and the case did well 
from the first. The opacity gradually disappeared 
and the patient was discharged cured in fourteen 
days. This new local aniesthetic cannot but • prove 
of the utmost value in veterinary practice, more 
especially in operations on the eye. It has only 
one drawback, and that is its high price. Previously, 
in operations of this kind, I always used to administer 
chloroform with the best results, but, of course, 
although! have never had any accidents with chloroform 
on the horse, still the danger attending its use, 
compared with the use of cocaine, is great indeed. 
Therefore, the latter must, for the future, act as a 
valuable and safe substitute for chloroform, for the 
production of local an;ethesia. 
THE ALTITUDE IN WHICH COFFEE IS 
GROWN IN BRAZIL. 
In our note to the query of our correspondent 
who wrote about trying coffee at 500 feet elevation 
in India, and whose letter signed " S." appears, on 
page 197, we omitted to answer his query about 
the altitude of coffee lands in Brazil. We refer him 
and all others interested to Van Delden Laerne's 
great work, an English translation of which has 
been published by Messrs. W. H. Allen & Co. It 
is a mine of the most varied and valuable inform- 
ation. Premising that the coffee region of Brazil 
is in the latitude of Australia, (between 10" and 
10' south) Mr. Laerne deals with altitude for coffee 
in the passage we quote, and with reference to which 
we need merely remind our readers that a meter 
is very nearly equivalent to 3' 3§ ' : — 
The actual coffee-producing district, however ; that 
is to say, the great Parahyba valley, — is enclosed be- 
tween the Serra da Mantiquiera and the Serra do Mar, 
or sea-board mountains, which followiug the coast 
from Santos near the small sea-port town of Angra 
dos Rei6, curve farther landwards until at leugth after 
having split the province of Rio de Janeiro trom south- 
west to north-east iuto two almost equal parts, they 
rose themselves in the billy districts of Espirito Santo. 
These two above-mentioned chains of mountains 
which change their uames very often, are frequently 
connected with each other various points by their at 
numerous branches, ridges, and spurs, so that the in- 
tervening couutry, such as the l'arahyba plateau, has 
a good right to its name of Serra Acima. in contra- 
distinction to the ooiust lauds to the east of the Serra 
do Mar, which form the Sera Abaixo, or low moun- 
tain lauds 
That this Serra Acima or mountain plain consists of 
a series of different valleys, roquires, after what I 
have said above, no further demonstration. It is how- 
ever, just those vallejs that give such a peculiar 
character to the coffee-producing districts in this torn . 
