April i, i 889. j 
TH£ TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
Appendix. — D. Prices of Cinchona Bark of the crop of 1886 sold in Amsterdam at public sale in 
18S7. 
Sale of 
January 27. March 10. April 21. June 2. July 14. Septembers. October 20. Decembers. 
Variety of Cinchona. 
C. Succirubra 
C. Josephiaua 
C. Calisaya 
C. Calisaya Anglica 
C, Caloptera 
C. Ledgeriana 
C. Officinalis 
C. Laneifolia 
a. b c 
bo P 
106 34 5577 
63 26 47 20 
39 27 30 
36 27 29 44 
8S 21 SO 1 ' 1 
108 82 100 
91 .SO 61 2 ' 
40 30 34 sti 
79 29 S2 75 90 23 45 1 " 99 25 57 29 159 25 SO 3 -" 1 
71 70 70* (35 19 40 73 76 16 41» 3 150 28 47 4 - 
IT °> 
<u « 
■« ? 
W i-i 
79 22 
70 26 
To S 
2 g 
52 13 166 16 48 9:i 140 20 58®* 
52 t ' 7 96 28 50 s - 117 23 51 4 ' 
131 30 7786 79 27 40 33 180 83 137 57 38 36 30^7 28 28 28 35 35 35 
90 56 68 ;l8 95 62 80 74 102 34 66 38 81 40 5617 
83 51 57 92 51 69-54 61 58 58 38 55 44 50 8 ° 
82 21 28 94 ___ 
86 24 48*8 153 22 88* 8 108 32 61 37 
01 61 61 51 48 4,9 
Average price of the different varieties of Cinchona at each sale. 
6672 57*2 59 80 57 77 5679 49 84 43 56 34 
Artificial Coffee. — The machines for the pre- 
paration of artificial coffee beans of which I gave 
some particulars a short time ago seem to be in 
operation. At any rate some of the artistic " berries" 
were recently confiscated in a shop at Dortmund 
by the police in the presence of an official analyst. — 
Berlin Correspondent, Chemist and Druggist, Feb. Oth. 
Coffee in America. — It will be interesting to 
Brazilian producers to know that one of the large 
roasted coffee firms of the United States, located 
in Boston, advertises its merchandise as " War- 
ranted not to coatain a single Kio bean." The 
Brazilian planter should see to it that his coffee 
hereafter is so well prepared that no one can safely 
make use of an advertisement of this character, 
Bio coffee has deservedly suffered much from bad pre- 
paration, butthere is no need of permitting this repu- 
tation to continue any longer. — Rio News, Feb. 11th. 
Black and Green Tea from Different 
Trees! — The old standing Ceylon joke of the pro- 
prietor at home who wrote to his manager out 
here to grow only the peaberry variety of coffee 
has given place under the reign of the new king 
to other not less amusing ones. We have heard 
of the man who refused to take broken pekoe from 
the dealer, and insisted on being supplied with 
pekoe, saying: "None of your broken stuff for me"! 
We have have also had the old story served up again, 
with the substitution of " broken pekoe " for 
" peaberry." But the height (or depth) of ignorance 
and impudence is reached in an advertisement 
which we notice in a home paper, where a certain 
" blender of good tea only," who calls the stuff he 
sells (at 2s per lb.) " liquid joy," illustrates his 
advertisement with representations of "Liquid Joy 
Tea Plant Black" and "Liquid Joy Tea Plant 
Green " 1 Unfortunately the illustration is on too 
small a scale for us to detect the differences between 
the two plants ; and unfortunately also Dr. Trimen has 
just left the island, or he might have been able to 
solve the difficulty. We may add that the illustra- 
tion is " registered "! 
Tohabcco in Ceylon and Borneo. — Curiously 
enough, coincidently with the appearance in our 
columns of correspondence between Mr. Thomas 
Dickson and the Chairman of the Planters' Asso- 
ciation, on the subject of tobacco cultivation in 
Ceylon, we have had a visit today from Mr. van Gogh, 
the well-known Java and Borneo planter, who is 
returning from Europe by French mail steamer 
after witnessing the successful floating of the 
London and Amsterdam Borneo Tobaoco Co., Ltd., 
a prospectus of which has reached us by this 
mail from Mr. Thomas Dickson, who has written 
on it "Why not Ceylon?" The objects of the 
company are set forth in the following paragraph 
which we take from the London and China Express : — 
The prospectus has been issued of the Loudon and 
Amsterdam Borneo Tobacco Oompiny (Limited) 
which has been formed to purchase eight valuable 
tracts of land, on which to cultivate tobacco, in the 
East Coast district of British North Borneo, each tract 
containing an area of 5,000 acres, 40,000 acres 
in all, namely, 20,000 acres situate on or near the 
Labuk River, and the other 20,000 on or near the 
Kinabatangan River. The lands to be acquired will be 
for 999 years free of quit rent, from the British 
North Borneo Company, subject to an export duty of 
one cant of a dollar per pound avoirdupois, on the 
tobacco grown on the land, to begin to be paid after 
Jan. 1st, 1892. The capital of the company is £150 000, 
in 14,990 shares of £10 each, and 10 founders' shares 
of £10 each, and 8,700 shares are now offered for 
public subscription. Of the remaining 6,290 shares 
1,300 fully paid shares will be allotted to the vendors 
in part payment of the purchase money (£10,000) 
of the properties to be acquired by the com- 
pany. The directors are all practical men, and the 
prospectus has evidently been drawn with great care. 
One of the leading features we desire to call at- 
tention to ia that the profit to the vendors is made 
subservient to the profit of the general shareholders. 
Thus the 1.300 shares allotted to the vendors only 
receive a dividend when 10 per cent, has been paid 
on the other shares, and provision made for the re- 
seve fund. When 100 per cent, in dividends has been 
paid on the ordinary shares, these 1,300 shares have 
equal rights. Similarly the 10 founders' shares re- 
ceive no profit uutil 100 per cent, has been paid on 
tbe shares issued to the public, but then they are 
entitled to one-fourth of the profits after a 20 per 
cent, dividend has been paid, and provision made 
for the reserve. We desire to point this out, as on 
these matters the prospectus entirely concides with 
remarks that we have made of late on more than 
one occasion. 
Mr. van Gogh (who was introduced to us by Mr. 
W. W. Martyn, who has returned to Caylon by the 
same steamer) was anxious to stay a week or so 
in Ceylon, in order to judge of the prospects of 
tobacco cultivation in the island, but he is unable 
to do so. However, he took with him a copy of 
our new book " All about Tobacco," and we sup- 
plied him with information as to rainfall &a. With 
such influential direction and experienced managers 
as it has, the new Borneo Tobacoo Company ought 
to succeed. 
