September i, i88r.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
267 
now much more reliable than it has been heretofore. 
Our stock plants are, moreover, now in fairly good 
condition and yield a considerable number of cuttings. 
11. The general condition of the plantation is 
satisfactory. The older trees look quite as well as 
ever I recollect to have seen them, and some of the 
younger planting is very fine indeed. The growth of 
succirubra on the new plantation at Sittong is not, 
howeyer, so satisfactory as could be wished. Contrary 
to all expectation, Ledgeriana and our quinine-pro- 
ducing hybrid are found to thrive better on land 
with a southern exposure than on land that slopes 
to the north. Mr. Gammie has therefore prepared for 
planting a considerable area of laud which had hither- 
to been regarded as unsuitable for any kind of cin- 
chona. This satisfactory result will postpone for a 
few years the necessity for planting in the recently 
acquired cinchona reserves in Bhutan. In planting 
Ledgeriaua last year, Mr. Gammie took the precaution 
of putting two plants to each stake, with the view of 
cutting the second of them out should it turn out to 
be of a had sort, or of transplanting one, should both 
plauts turn out true Ledgeriaua. The majority of 
these recently put out plants are, however, turning 
out pure Ledgerian'aa ; there will therefore be a consider- 
able number of transplants available from this source 
dining the approaching planting season. 
!'_'. The financial aspect of the whole cinchona 
enterprise will bo found treated of in detail in para- 
graph 8 of t'oe Quinologist's report. It is only necess- 
ary for me to state here that the result of the 
working of the old plantation for the year has been 
an actual profit of 1180,000, which is equal to eight 
already well known to Government, and during the 
past, as during former years, t he has done admirable 
service. 
14. The usual [ annual returns (five in number) 
are appended. 
'1881 V id V I s ! uo 
j[DO}s jCiosjuu 1140^ 
snt 
the stock i 
year was m 
results, bul 
of the adv 
its cinchoi 
of febrifngi 
diapensarief 
the whole 
apital, and that (valued at cost price) 
at the end of the 
[194,924. These arc the actual cash 
•y by no means represent the whole 
rqperty. During the year .">,.">00 pounds 
re used in Government hospitals and 
substitution of quinine. Quinine during 
■ ruled at a high rate, and in a trust- 
worthy London Trade Circular, the average whole- 
sale price for the year is given at 12 shillings per 
ounce. Calculated at a rate of exchange equal 
to Is Sid per rupee (aud including nothing for 
0, th 
Cut 
to 
Mjii 
K 1 12 
rhich 
ir quinine, the 
een R5,50,000, 
3 was Ufed at 
3 thus effected 
1 half lakluof 
half the total 
md 
the 
per 
Gov 
cost 
whereas au equal q 
a nominal cost of 1 
a clear saving of m< 
rupees, a sum prett 
expenditure on tho 
interest at 4 per c 
Tho savings effected 
fuge lor quinine in 
and three quarter 1 
fore stands at sixtei 
As the object of Government is not to make money 
by it; plantation, but to provide the masses of the 
people with a good remedy for fever, cheap enough 
to 1)0 within reach even of the poorest, it may soon 
become a question whether the selling price of the 
febrifuge might not bo reduced. 
Li. During tho year two additions wero mado to 
tho plantation staff by tho arrival from the Royal 
Burdens, Kew, of Messrs. Kennedy and Parkes. 
Mr. Mantling, who was formerly see md assistaut, 
was transferred early in tho ye r to tho curator- 
ship of th" 11. t inted (lard. 11, Calcutta, and Mr. II. 
Bjrofton was appointed to ollici.ite Tor him. Mr. Lister, 
tho first assistant, has worked well during the year, 
aud in him Mr. Gamini" has had a most efficient aud 
trustworthy helper. Mr. Gammiu'a own merits aru 
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I Table showing the number and distribution of Cinchona 
Plant*, in the Government Plantation, Sittong 
Division, on tho 1st April 1881. 
Names of species 
of Cinchona. 
.Number in per- 
manent plantation! 
oa 1st Aprill 
1881. 
■Soo ' .|3 
: ! 1 J ! 
f | 0 3 
11 1 t* 
Number in per-l 
nmnent plautut ion 
on Lit April 
1881. 1 
C. New variety 
c. Sudoirubra ' 
C. Calisaya 
Total ... 
48 878 
1,182,200 
12,780 
5,000 
O.tMHI 
58,878 
1,132,200 
1S.7N1 
1,198,868 
11,000 
1,20X868 
