NovEMniiR i, 1888.] THr_ TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
359 
(Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.) 
TOTAL QUANTITIES of the following Articles EXPORTED 
Colombo and Galle Annually during the past Ten Years. 
from 
Total Exports from 
Oct, L887 to. Sept. 
1885 
1888 
1 882 
msi 
187'J 
1878 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
1888 
iss; 
1881! 
1885 
1880 
1 888 
1882 
1881 
l.-W 
187'J 
Total Exports fro n 
1-t Oct. 1887 to 30th Sept. 
I)., 
Do. 
Do. 
Po. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
188S 
ism 
1383 
1882 
1881 
issn 
187(1 
|s7* 
do. 
do. 
dd. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
1888 
1887 
1881 
188f 
18i4 
18-3 
1881 
183) 
\m 
1878 
Coffee, cwt. 
Plant- 
ation. 
85a 
so 7 
570 
5013 
458 
,11:11 
,019 
,iLS6 
3u8 
299 
Coconut 
Fbpnac. 
Cwt. 
,4 12 
622 
,117 
805 
48* 
122 
897 
302 
308 
218 
Total. 
Cinchona. 
Branch & 
Trunk 
lb. 
11,704,032 
14,389,18 I 
1334,912 
1 1 ,078,300 
1 1.192,917 
6,925,505 
3,090,895 
1,207,720 
1,208,318 
378,511 
Tjt'A. 
Cwt, 
20755,779 12,611 
12013,(Wfi lo,o:is 
7,170,329 
3,796*68 I 
2,362,539 
1,522,882 
628,292 
277,690 
103,021 
81,595 
13,3 17 
0,758 
9,863 
8,588 
1,018 
179 
122 
Coco- 
n uts. 
Plum- 
bago. 
Cwt. 
HI. ',5111,572 
112,180 9487,618 
12,1-1 
51,2 15 
251,011! 
231,173 
190,153 
197,22] 
218,514 
279,057 
210,711 
2013, 
2o!i,o:ni 
1(30,301 
Com, Cwt. 
Rope. Yarn. ; Fibre 
7,915 
9,570 
7,81(5 
1 ' ». i 1 i> 
14,47:'. 
11,792 
7,47'J 
11,640 
7,290 
8,201 
79,840 23.82B 
(iii,(i(i7 20,510 
74,1^617,219 
8l,o57 12.73i 
85,195 
68,896 
05,8s5 
13,717 
56,838 
51*916 
13,1572 
18,009 
0,109 
6,117 
5,802 
(i,07G 
Cwt. 
454 
854 
59o 
013 
7:. i 
273 
532 
,057 
,616 
,899 
lb. 
Cinnamon. 
Hales 
lb. 
1,(557, 121 
1,793,893 
1,029,518 
1,571,022 
1,700,372 
1,402,429 
1,599,327 
1,31(1,10(5 
1,898,534 
1,21(1,208 
Chips, 
lb. 
•I9G.887 
505,1151 
548,037 
02S,!ll I 
538,577 
336,872 
394,73] 
321,772 
474,481 
188,518 
Coco- I 
nut Oil. Copra 
Cwt. Cwt. 
385,758 173,773 
301,478 1108,035 
234,308 I27,89g 
271,(198 178,301 
•123,830 177,317 
300,299 122,825 
183,708 1 54,004 
217,113 1 43,337 
310,503 • 
213,022, 
Deer 
Horns 
Cwt, 
2,307 
1,916; 
1,0801 
2,125 
93' 
2,552 
= ■3 
8-1 
Cwt. 
o 
Cwt. 
3,519 
7,519 
1,848 
2,831 
2,113 
11,101 
2,502110,561 
1,007 9,756 
1,077 * 
4,367 ... 
1,013 
951 
665 
430 
827 
1 ,057 
1,157 
MS 
Cwt. 
1° 
o 
oz. 
1,128 9,508,157144,433 
1,282 8,871,426 02,603 
3,906 i;, 101,278 139,091 
1,631 5,721,112 117,023 
1,466 1 ,827,02o,lo 1 ,185 
1,762 3,335,780 7(3,221 
1,073 2,000,917 118,702 
8S0 1,760,(377 41,719 
Obntbal Oachah Tka Oompanv. — [While the Dar- 
jeeling estates hive been suffering from drought, the 
following is the tearful tale of damaging wet, told iu 
the report of this company. — Ed. | The season 
has broil most unfavourable, and will be noted for tho 
frequent and severe hailstorms commencing from the 
Utter end of March to the end of April ; accompanied 
by heavy raio, 15 " having been registered to the end of 
April. The plan,t by this time was so woakened by tbe 
hail mid the d imago from wet and cold, that they were 
attacked early In Mjy by rod spider, which hung on all 
through June : the temperature all this time ranged 
from 75° to B5°, being iur too cold for growth, whilo 
the ground was sodden from the wet, so that compara- 
tively little tea was undo duriug May and June. The 
weather improved during July, and with it the Hushes, 
■nd a fair quantity of tea has since been made: it is 
difficult to say how the season will result, some dry 
warm weather would give large quantities of leaf, bit if 
it continue as it has been, a gradual falling off in the 
returns may be expected ; unfortunately at th date i 
our latest advices, 16th August, tho weather is reported 
as being " M-orse than it has beeu at any time duriug 
tho season"* " '"the river still continues in flood, ou 
the flats the drains aro full of stagnant water:" tho 
raiofnll to 15th August, was lllli " against 81 ' last year. 
I'n • i have been rather lower for fiuo Orango and 
Broken Pekoes, hut better for tho other qualities with 
point aud character.— Indian Planters' Gazette, Sept. 
4th. 
Quinine Puosi'kcts. — The Commercial Correspon- 
dent of tho Times of India, writing on Septembor 
28th from Londou, reports : — 
A " bull " movement is opening in quinine; and 
the chance of its boing sont up to at least double or 
tr, bio its existing value are discussed. In 18:H» tho 
manufacturer's prices for sulphate of quinine woro 
About 12s per oy... at the present time tho prico is 
only about Is (id peroz. Ceylon has been tho principal 
factor in breaking down tho market. Now as no 
planting to sneak ot is going on— ovory thing giving 
way to tea— tho forecast is that there will bo con- 
siderably diminished exports of cinchona from Cey- 
lon in tho next few years. "The very low price of 
hark," as ono concerned writes, " will prevent much 
inferior produce being sent, and the impecunious 
owuers of estates being now able to make both ends 
meet with their tea cultivation, all are causes which 
may result in manufacturers fiuding themselves short, 
of the raw material they hive in previous years been 
overstocked with. It is very easy aud inexpensive to 
hold stocks of bark or quinine, and it would not re- 
quire very much capital to hold all that was ncces- 
s-iry, not to drive up the price of sulphate of qui- 
nine to 15a per oz. as was done some teu years ngo 
but, say, to treble its present value." 
DISTRIBUTION OF CEYLON EXPORTS. 
(From 1st Oct. 1888 to 1st Noo. 1888.) 
COU.VTUIKS. 
C'chona 
Branch 
! Coffee & Trunk 
Tea. C'eou 
cwt. 
lb. 
To United Kingdom 
, , Marseilles 
ii Genoa 
„ Venice 
,, Trieste 
,, Odessa 
i, Hamburg 
,, Antwerp 
ii Bromou 
i, Havre 
„ Rotterdam ...| 
II Africa ... 
,, Mauritius ...j 
,, India Ac Eastward it'll 
,, Australia „,i 
,, America 
total Export* from Oct. I. 
! • •> to Nov. 1, 1888' 
Do 1887 do !«*>■ 
Do 18441 do 1880 
Do do 
lb. 
cwt. lb. 
1030 10H926 2081419 13 8977 
2.195 
08 
bib' 
lH>70n 
4688i ll&Vj.M 2131210 
3044 7M701I lllillo 
3801 1019104, MMIG 
W?i 1 l.'7ili. ... . 
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