July 2, 1888.] THF. TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
and under ordinarily favourable circumstances a 
ton and a-half, and for a heavy crop two tons per 
acre will be obtained, and if the sample be a good 
one 5d. per lb. is paid by the manufacturer, I will 
suppose that from the time you put in your plants 
to tho time you sent off your bales Las been nine 
months, and that, excluding the cost of the fence, 
which cannot be charged against one crop, you have 
spent what is equal to £1 worth of labour per week 
for the nine months, which should be a liberal 
allowance for a five-acre patch, so that your tobacco 
crop has cost you £39 — say £40 — for labour and seed. 
Now, on the other side, what are you likely to 
obtain ? Taking the yield at the low estimate of one 
ton per acre, you have sent to Sydney five tons of 
tobacco, for which at Sd.per lb. you receive £46 13s. 
4d. per ton, and for your five tons, £233 6s. 8d. ; or, 
deducting £40 as cost of working, you have made a 
net profit of £193 6s. 8d. on the little five-acre 
patch of tobacco, which would have been £386 13s. 
4d. if the area had been 10 acres instead of five. 
On the same piece of ground, if you had got 25 
bushels to the acre, and 3s. 6d. per bushel for the 
corn, you would get £21 7s. 6d. gross. Allowing 
that all does not go well each season — drought, hail, 
frost, or caterpillar possibly reducing the yield — 
yet it promises a better return in comparison with 
other crops for the size of ground and labour ex- 
pended. Nearly all the labour is light, too, being 
such as young folks can undertake. The planting- 
out, weeding, removing caterpillars, heading the 
plants, cutting them, slitting and placing them in 
the shed is all light work, and a farmer's ohildren 
can in many cases undertake it. 
With a likelihood of such a return, it is certainly 
worth the trial ; and, again, the work on five acres 
is not a very serious matter, however it results. So 
far, you say, then for the black soil ; what about 
the 10-acre piece of wheat land? 
This, that many a farmer of late years has found 
growing chicory tide him over a bad harvest, when 
in some oases he would otherwise have gone to the 
wall, and what is good in that way in bad seasons 
is money made and available for other pur- 
poses in good years. You prepare your 
land for chioory as for wheat, and fair wheat 
land will do for it. The seed is supplied by 
Mr, K. Harper, of Darling Harbour, who buys the 
crop, and buys only what is grown from the seeds he 
supplies. You state how much land you propose to 
cultivate, and the suitable proportion of seed is sent 
at, I believe, 3s per lb. It is nearly always sown 
broadcast, I think to save trouble and expense in 
drilling it in, The latter method produces a larger 
root, and the crop can be kept clear of weeds. 
The root is like a several times forked parsnip, and 
the leaves like small dock leaves. Stock greedily 
eat the tops. In tho Blayney district the sowing 
takes place about September, and the crop is dug up 
about March or April. The roots are dug with a 
spade or long hoo, such as Chinamen use, and care 
should be taken to get all up, as any portion left in 
the ground grows again. For this reason two conse- 
outive crops are not grown on the same ground, as 
Belf-sown chicory is not saleable. 
Three tons per acre is a light crop, and seven tonsi 
which I huve several times seen, a heavy one. Tho 
average will be from four to five tons. When the 
crop is dug up the tops aro wrenched oil' and the 
roots put into sacks, which I believe are sent to 
the farmer by the merchant. They aro then taken 
to whore there is water, washed, put back into 
the saoks, and sent off to Sydney at once— the 
wetlor they aro tlte bettor. Allowing, therefore, 
tive tons to tho aore on your 10-acre piooe, you 
have 50 tons, and at £ 1 per ton a gross return of 
£20 per aero, or £200 for your 10-acre paddock, as 
ugaiuat £11 to £30 for the whoat. 
Dry weather, of course, makes a poor crop. Even 
then if the crop be reduced half, a yield approach- 
ing £100 for 10 acres is good. If 50 farmers wee 
to cultivate one or other, or both, of these products 
in the coming season, they would in all probability 
receive from £10,000 to £15,000 more than they 
otherwise would, and the irade of the colony be 
proportionately benefited. The possible less cannot 
be otherwise than smal, the profit very good — -why 
not then try it ? — Sydney Mail. 
THE QUININE SITUATION. 
The following circular, which was issued recently 
by Messrs. Itoessler & Hasslacher, and which to some 
extent may be taken as an answer to an editorial 
article in the Reporter of April 25th, will be read 
with interest in view of the unsettled condition of tho 
quinine market : — 
" Quinine has declined within the last month 10 
cents perounce, our April list quoting 45 cents, where 
we are able to offer it today at 35 cents. With this 
considerable decline the trade is therefore in the 
favorable position to find quinine cheap at the very 
beginning of the season's increasing consumptive 
demand. The reason for the present decline is 
found in the increased bark shipments. But as the 
rapid decline has already brought us pretty near to a 
price for the barks that does not even cover actual 
expenses for bringing them to the European market 
in merchantable condition, the trade can calculate 
that while waiting now may save a few cents, it 
is more than probable that by waiting too long it will 
find itself confronted with an advauoing market. 
For it must be considered that as true as it is that 
there is anything but a decline in the world'a crop 
of cinchona barks, and that the barks may be had in 
such abundance at Ceylon, Java or Bolivia as to mako 
them worth nothing there, it is equally true that they 
are not for any length of time available to the Quinine 
factories of this country and Europe at prices 
that do not fully cover the expenses for gath- 
ering, drying, packing, shipping and negotiating the 
sale of them. This fact was not considered by 
those who last fall waited for ' twenty-five cents 
quinine,' and if the large speculative buyers have 
now made up their mind to go into quinine when 
the price of 30 cents an ounce is reached, they 
may find themselves left as badly as those who waited 
for the 25 cents limit last year. 
"A few words also about the 1 decrease in the 
consumption of quinine' on account of the increase 
of the numerous febrifuges, a reason advanced always 
when a bearish tendency is desired. How true this 
statement is you oan best prove by your own books. 
Certainly tho demand for the various febrifuges 
has largely incraased with you, but has the demand 
for quinine decreased ? Not' with us and we aro 
sure also not with you. That the increased eon- 
sumption of the new febrifuges does not lessen tho 
demand for quinine, is that none of these are 
really a substitute of quinine. None of them 
is a tonic, nor has any of them healing 
properties. They, one and all, can only 
effect a reduction of the temperature, and are of 
great value to the physician whenever he desires 
to reduce a too high a temperature of his patient. 
To better explain this we quote tho remarks with 
which we introduced Acetauilid. On authority of 
a Berlin physician we then stated : 
" ' The scientific theory of fevers goes to show 
that fever heat is in all oases a seoondary ap- 
pearance, brought jibout in most, or perhaps, in all 
cases by germs ; the struggle of the system against 
these intruders producing fever heat. In most cases 
it ia of importance to destroy the primary cause 
of tho fever, its germs, suppressing at tho same 
time its seooudary effect, tho {ever heat, as for 
