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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [February i, 1888. 
The following quotations show roughly the result of 
the year's work : — 
Jan. 1st 1888. Jan. 1st 1887. 
Fine middling Plantation 
Ceylon 93s to 95s 85s to 88s 
Middling „ „ 90s to 91s 77s to 81s 
„ Oosta Rica 88s 71s 
„ Guatemala 87s 6d 70s 
Good ordinary foxy Guate- 
mala 83s 63s 
„ Channel Rio, c. & f. 81s 67s 
„ Avr. Santos in Havre 100 francs 78 francs 
„ Avr. Java in Holland 51 cents 40 cents 
Jan. 1st 1886. Jan. 1st 1885. 
Fine middling Plantation 
Ceylon 74s to 80s 76s to 82s 
Middling „ „ 62s to 66s 65s 6d to 70s 
„ Oosta Rica 54s 53s 
„ Guatemala 54s 54s 
Good ordinary foxy Guate- 
mala 40s 48s 
,, Channel Rio, c. & f. 37s 41s 9d 
,, Avr. Santos in Havre 45f francs 52 francs 
,, Avr. Java in Holland 25| cents 28 cents 
As regards our yearly anticipations of supplies, we 
give our usual tables : — 
Java. 
> — - 
Government. Private. Sumatra. 
1880- 81 1,047,000 325,000 132,000 
1881- 82 1,007,600 283,800 118,900 
1882- 33 1,025,000 3-41,000 121,500 
1883- 84 1,072,000 328,000 141,000 
1884- 85 1,019,000 297,000 129,200 
1885- 86 500,000 219,000 87,600 
1886- 87 817,000 326.000 83,200 
1887- 88 257,000 125,000 83,000 
1888- 89 crops are said to promise better results. 
Menace Macassar, &c. Total. 
1880- 81... 10,700 87,600 1,602,300 bags 
1881- 82... 10,900 133,100 1,554,300 „ 
1882- 83... 20,500 126,000 1,634,000 „ 
1883- 84... 12,500 110,700 1,664,200 „ 
1884- 85... 16,900 132,000 1,594,100 „ 
1885- 86... 20,400 124,800 951,800 „ 
1886- 87... 26,700 125 000 bags 
1887- 88... 4,000 145,000 „ 
1879-80 1880-81 1881-82 1882-83 
Rio receipts... 2,985,000 4,427,000 3,839,000 4,743,000 
Santos „ ...1,087,000 1,126,000 1,723,000 1,968,000 
Total bags... 4,072,000 5,553,000 5,562,000 6,711,000 
1883-84 1884-85 1885-86 1886-87 
Rio receipts... 3.186,000 4,115,000 3,868,000 3,509,000 
Santos „ ...1,871,000 2,096,000 1,664,000 2.620,000 
Total bags.. .5.057,000 6,211,000 5,582,000 6,129,000 
1887-88 
Rio estimate 1,750,000 
Santos estimate 1,250,000 
Total .. 3,000,000 bags 
As regards the 1888-89 crops, the prospects are 
reported as favourable, market gossip estimates 
Rio from 3,750,000 to 4,500,000 bags 
Santos from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 „ 
6,250,000 7,500,000 bags 
We shall publish no figures officially until the great 
houses speak. 
The following estimates and figures are interesting, 
but we behove of little commercial value, except as 
a rough guide as to whether the out-turns are likely 
to be above or below the average of the last two or 
three years. 
All those who are interested in statistics must have 
often noticed that if any past year be taken, and a 
sum total compiled from all the assessed out-turns, the 
figure never equals by many thousands of tons the 
quantity of Coffee which really arrives. 
It is, we believe, for this reason that statistical tables, 
published with great care, comparing the quantity of 
Coffee likely to be required by the trade with the 
quantity of Coffee likely to be available according to 
the estimates year after year, prove to be misleading. 
In all these tables, without exception, year after year, 
the sum total of the Coffee estimated to be available 
fr m countries outside the Brazils and Java is under 
The only safe plan is to try and decide whether 
the CoffVe likely to be available promises to be more 
or less than the quantity proved to have been avail- 
able in prsvinus years, by deducting- Brazil shipments 
from the total arrivals returned by Messrs. D.iuring 
& Zoon iu Europe, and by Messrs. Moring & Co. in 
the States. 
1887-88 1886-87 If 65-86 1884-85 1883-84 
tons 
Ceylon 8,500 9,004 11,200 15,500 16,200 
Indian 
crop 17,000 18,0/0 18.000 16,000 18,000 
Manilla 100,000 113,000 117,000 80,000 bags 
Vene- 
zuela 450,000 370,000 440,000 440,000 „ 
eaibo 200,000 275,000 212,000 220,000 „ 
Oosta bags 
Rica 150-200,000 240,000 140,0(0 150,000 357,000 
Guate- 
mala 
&Sal- 
vador 400-440,000 515,000 502,000 510,000 425,000 
Nicaragua & 
Honduras 80,000 80,000 75,000 60,000 80,000 
Haiti 5011,000 400,000 500,000 630,000 — 
Porto Rico 400,000 230,000 260,000 420,000 314,000 
Tuesday Evening. — As we go to press, the news 
reaches us that Messrs. Johnston & Oo. estimate the 
1888-89 Brazil crops at 8,500,000 bags, viz., Kio 
5,500,000 bags, Santos 3,000,000 lags. 
I. A. Ruckeb & Benceaft, 37, Mincing Lane. 
ANNUAL REVIEWS OF TEA AND COFFEE 
MARKETS. 
Referring to the details in the annual Market 
Reviews, (page 554eis?g.)we will proceed to notice the 
PROGRESS OF CONSUMPTION OF INDIAN 
AND CEYLON TEA IN BRITAIN. 
More than half of the tea delivered for home 
consumption in Britain now is of British origin, 
that is grown in British possessions. This posi- 
tion was reached towards the end of last year, 
but even for the 5 months between 1st June and 
30th Nov., the proportions delivered were: — 
Indian 40,875,000 f Ceylon 6,117,000 lb.=total British 
46,992,000, or say 47 millions against 
China 60,858,000 1 Java 1,653,000 lb.=total non- 
British 62,511,000. 
Deliveries for 5 months of Java had gone down as 
above from 2 milhons in 3 years, and China from 71 J 
millions, while India rose from 27£ millions, and 
Ceylon from 2 millions and 83,000 pounds. The 
monthly deliveries of Indian tea had gone up from 
5,598,000 lb. in June to 8,294,000 in October. The 
monthly deliveries of Ceylon tea had increased 
from 780,570 lb. in June to 1,341,790 in August. 
The latter is the highest monthly figure for Ceylon 
tea as yet. The progress of our tea is shown by 
the following figures for deliveries: — 
(1st June to 3 1st May) Monthly average 
1884- 85 2,046 000 lb. 170,000 lb. 
1885- 86 3,933,000 „ 328,000 „ 
1886 87 7,744,000 „ 645,000 „ 
1887-88 (5 mths) 6,117,000 „ 1,223,500 „ 
For the 5 months the monthly deliveries had 
averaged 1,223,000 lb., and as deliveries preserve 
a fair proportion to imports, we may anticipate 
a rise to close on 2 millions per mensem of Ceylon 
tea before 1888 closes. 
