March t, 1888.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
599 
AlTKNDIX No. IV. 
Total Exports of Ceylon Tea During the Following Years. 
1880 114,845 lb. 
1881 311,145 „ 
1882 (521,0(58 „ 
1883 1,699,687 „ 
1884 2,285,294 „ 
1885 4,352,895 „ 
1886 7,790,497 „ 
1887 13,500,000 „ 
ArrENDix No. V. 
Average Wholesale Prices in London Market of China. 
Java, Indian, and Ceylon Teas. 
(Approximate.) 
China. 
Java. . 
India . 
Oeylou 
1883 1884 
1885 
1886 
/10 /10 
/9i 
10 
1/2* i/ii 
1/21 
vA 
i/ii 
ArpuNDix No. VI. 
Estimated Cost of Bringing into Bearing 200 A 
Land Planted with Tea. 
Cost of 300 acres forest: at Bs. 50 per aero Rs. 
First Year. 
Peb Ache. 
Felling and Clearing 200 acres 
at Rs. ... 13- Rs. 2,600 
Lining, Hoeing, Filling in, Plant- 
ing and Supplying 4 ft. by 3^ ft. 22- 4,400 
Seed and Nurseries ... ... 30- 6,000 
Roads and Drains ... ... 13- 2,600 
Weeding, say 15 months at Rs. 1 15- 3,000 
Lines, temporary ... ... 3-50 700 
Contingencies, Tools, Survey, 
Medicines, &c, ... ... 5-00 1,000 
Superintendence ... ... 12-50 2,500 
1887 
m 
/nl 
crcs of 
15,000 
22,300 
Rs. 37,800 
2,500 
Second Year. 
Superintendence 
Contingencies, Tools, Medicines, Taxes, 
Stationery, &c., ... ... ... 1,000 
Supplying ... ... ... ... 500 
Upkoep of Roads and Drains ... ... 500 
Weeding, Its. 1 per aero ... ... 2 400 
Permanent Lines ... ... ... l,f>00 
Superintendent's Bungalow and Furniture 2,500 
Topping at Us. 2-50 per acre ... ... 500 11,400 
Third Year. 
Superintendence, Contingencies, General 
Charges &c., Us. 22 per acre ... 
Oultiva i >u and Tools, per aero Rg. 28 ... 
Tea Factory, permauent, 80 x 42 feet, 
with fittings, and with Mnchiuery 
consisting of 1 Kxcolsior Roller, 1 
Desiccator (or Venetian), 1 sifter, 8 
U. P. Engine aud Boiler, Shafting, 
Pulleys, Pelting, etc. 
Plucking, .Manufacturing, and Placing 
f. o. b. 40,000 lb. Tea at lScts. per lb. 
(200 lb. per acre) ... 
Rs. 49,200 
4.100 
5,600 
14,000 
By 40,000 lb. Tea notting Is. in London 
Exchange at Is. 6d. — 56 cts. ... 
Capital uccount without interest at end 
of third year Rs. 290 por cultivated 
acre ... ... ... . 
Fourth Year. 
Expenditure on 200 aorea at Rs. 60 per 
acre ... . . ... 
F.Xtru Allowance for Lines, Bungalows, 
Withering Sheds, Jcc. 
Plucking, Manufacturing, and Placing 
f . o. b. 70,IR)0 lb. Tea at 17 ctt. per lb. 
(350 lb. per aero) 
7.200 
Rs. 31,200 
22,400 
8,800 
Rs. 68>900 
i(i,i>ou 
3,000 
... 11,000 
Rs. 2i,(»0 
By 70,000 lb. Tei at 50 cts. ... 
Profit 
Outstanding Capital ... 
Fft'i Y:<r. 
Cost of Pro lucing Crop of 5 0 lb. per 
acre 100,0(10 lb. at 28 cts. 
Netting in Colom'10 50 cts. = 22 cts. 
100,000 lb. at 22 cts.=Frofit ... 
Sixth Year, 
Crop at 550 lb. per acre =110,000 lb. 
at 20 cts. p.r lb., Profit 
lOjlOO 
Rs. ,7,9 JO 
22,000 
Rs. 25,9 111 
22,000 
Rs. 3,900 
Outstanding Capital end of sixth year . 
Capital, say Rs. 300 per acre, giving 
a profit when iu bearing of S.0 cts. 
per lb. at CC0 lb. per acre=Rs. 120 
pur acre profit on Capital Account 
without interest. 
A full report of the discussion which followed th l 
reading of the Paper will be published in our n.xt. — 
Colonies and India. 
THE TEA INDUSTRY OP CEYLON'. 
Discussion on Mr. Suand's Paper before the 
Royal Colonial Institute. 
The following is a Report of the Discussion which 
took place at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Mutropole, 
011 Tuesday, January 10th, upon the Paper by John 
Loudoun Shand, Esq., late a Member of the Legislative 
Council of Ceylon, which appeared in our last issue, 
entitled 
The Chairman (Sir John Coode, K.c.ai.u.): Before 
the general discussion begins, I should like with your 
permission to add a few words by way of amplification 
of one or two points, not that I would wish to convey 
the Paper is not complete, for it is very complete, 
and very interesting the delivery of it has been. Mr. 
Shand referred to the climate but only iu a word. Now 
I have paid three or four visits to Ceylon, aud have 
therefore some little personal knowledge of the 
climate, and there are one or two interesting 
facts I may bring before you with referencu 
to that climate as adapted to the growth of 
tea. First, as regards the rainfall. The rainfall of 
Great Britain varies from 22 to 23 inches per annum 
as a minimum to about 70 inches as a maximum. 
In Coylon the minimum is 70 inches * and the maxi- 
mum is fully 200 inches. Moreover, observations 
taken over the whole island for the shapo of a dozen 
years show that the fall occurs on from 150 to 200 
days per annum ; and when yon remember this, and 
that iu tho intervals botween the heavy falls there 
is a marvellous amount of sunshine — the island being 
within sovon degrees of the Equator — you will under- 
stand one of the reasons why the vegetation is so 
luxuriant aud so remarkable. I have seon something 
of the Eastern Hemisphere, and I know no countries 
which can comparo with Coylon in luxurianco of 
vegetation, except they be tho Straits Settlements 
and Java. Both of these have been mentioned as 
tea-growing countries, and they are no doubt pretty 
much under the same conditions as Ceylon, but on the 
whole, so far as my knowledge of the meteorological 
conditions goes, they are not, 1 think, quite so favour- 
ably situated in Ceylon. Another important mutter to 
bo considered as a gauge of quality is tho rela- 
tive prices of Ceylon ten as compared with other 
teas iu tho markot. If you refer to Appendix 
No. V. of tho Papor you will, I think, be struck 
with the fact that Coylon coimi aaK in price about 5 J 
percent more than .lava or Clin a ten. This is iu the 
Loudou market, and you will admit that Mincing Lane 
in about as good a judge of the quality and character of 
tea as you could have. As regards quantity, 1 believe 
I 0111 correct iu -Uting that lul year was tho first \e .1 
"* The miuiruum of the tea districts thero an- two 
native districts of the UUiid where tho r.iinlall is not 
much above Jo iucho*.— Ku. 
