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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [October i, 1881. 
the gardens is said to have effected a considerable 
improvement on the results obtained under the old 
system of drying over charcoal fire, while in another 
garden, machinery for sieving and equalizing tea worked 
with success. Labour is chiefly imported from Nepaul 
and Chota Nagpore, the indigenous labourers number- 
ing between 700 and 800 only. The labourers are re- 
ported to be well-housed and properly treated. One 
application for lease of lands was under enquiry at 
the close of 1879, and four applications were filed 
during 1880. There were thus altogether five appli- 
cations for disposal. Of these two were granted, one 
was withdrawn, one was negatived, while one was 
under enquiry at the close of the year. 
There was an increase of two gardens in the Chitta- 
gong district over the number reported in the previous 
year, but figures are again incomplete, 18 gardens 
having failed to supply the information sought. The 
gardens in the Chittagong Hill tracts have all furnished 
the returns for 1880, but no figures regarding the 
yield of tea were supplied in the previous year. A 
comparison of the results of the year under review 
with those of the previous year is therefore, not possible. 
The weather was not very favourable for tea ; and the 
flushes were below the average. The outturn per 
acre shewed a decrease, but this is attributed to the 
plucking having been finer than it used to be, the 
common class of tea hardly paying the cost of manu- 
facture. The soil and climate are well adapted to tea 
cultivation, very little manure being used. There is 
an abundance of local labour except at the rice har- 
vest, and the number of labourers imported into 
Chittagong is small. Improvements in firing and other 
Operations have gradually been introduced, and machin- 
ery has been brought into use in several tea estates 
in the district. 
No new gardens were started in the Dacca district, 
but the average yield per acre shows an increase from 
92 lb. to 132 lb. 
The number of tea plantations in Hazaribagh in 
1880, was the same as in the preceding year, but there 
was an increase of two gardens in the Lohardugga 
district. One garden in Hazaribagh and three gardens 
in Lohardugga furnished no returns for the year ; but 
on those gardens from which returns were received 
both in 1879 and 1880, the aggregate outturn is said 
to have shown an increase in the year under report. 
Early rains in the spring and seasonable weather 
during the monsoon materially helped to improve the 
prospects of the industry. The prices, however, showed 
very little signs of improvement except for the better 
qualities which are not yet grown in large quantities. 
Coffee is only grown experimentally in the Chitta- 
gong district, and those who have cultivated a few 
plants speak favourably of the growth, especially of 
the Liberiau coffee. No returns have been received 
from the Chittagong Hill tracts, but the crop of the 
Ceylon or common coffee is said to have ben a "fair 
average one ;" the planteis have prepared nurseries 
sufficient to nrovide plants of Liberian coffee for 100 
acres during the current year. No increase is shown 
in the number of gardens in the Lohardugga district, 
and there was a decrease of 320 lb. or 50 per cent, 
in the total yield as compared with 1879. — Ca'cutta 
Englishman, 
COFFEE IN BRAZIL : 
RIO REPORT. 
(From Kern, Hayn Co.'s Mwkd Report.) 
Rio de Janeiro, 1st July 1881. 
Shipments of coffee from Rio de Janeiro during the crop 
•easOD, 1st July 1880 to 30 June 1S81 amounted, as will 
be Been from the .statement below, to 254.399 tons equal to 
4,301, 120 bags of CO kilos each against 172,777 tonsor2 961,477 v 
bags during the correspon ing season 1879-80 and 210,461 
ons or 8,607,903 bags during same period '1876-79, and 
the crop-year just closed has thus witnessed the largest 
export from here ever known. 
In our report of 1st July 1880 as well as in our printed 
circular of 1st January 1881, we gave as the estimates of 
the 1880-81 crop the quantity of 4,000,000 bags of coffee, 
but we let transpire as our opinion that this figure appeared 
rather too low. 
Now that the greater part of the last crop has been 
shipped, people begin to perceive bow considerably they 
had estimated the crop and to-day the general belief is that 
the > ielcl reaches the figure of about 5,500,000 bags of coffee. 
To-day it is as little possible for us to guarantee the cor- 
rectness of this figure as was the case at any time 
during the past twelve months, but if we may be allowed 
to express any opinion, we should say the above figure to 
be pretty correct the more so as most of the opinions wa 
heard express about this subject were of the same tenor. 
Once agreed to the correctness of the figure named, the 
stock in the interior of coffee of the last crop would 
amount to about 1,366,000 bags. 
As above stated the exportation 
of coffee from this port from 
1st July 1880 to 30th June 1881 
amounted to about... ... 4,361,000 bags. 
wherefrom are to be deducted : 
the shipments coastwise from 
Santos and re-exported from 
Rio, say about... ... 6,000 bags. 
the quantity of former crops 
calculated to he about ... 500,000 „ 
and the quantity of new 1881- 
1882 crop shipped before this 
day... ... ... 15,000 „ 521,000 „ 
thus leaving a quantity exported 
during the last twelve months 
of the 1880-1881 crop of about... 
and as it was estimated that the 
quantity of 1880-81 crop coffee 
exported previous to the 1st 
of July 1880 amounted to about... 
that the local consumpiion in 
Rio during the last 12 months 
was about... 
and that of the stock existing 
to-day in Rio of 175,000 bags 
about 25 .000 bags are of the new 
crop being thus of the old crop 
thero ought to remain on this 
date in the interior a stock of old 
coffee of about... .,, 
in order to reach the above named 
quantity of... 
3,840,000 
60,000 
84,000 
150,000 
1,366,000 
5,500,000 
upon which figure thelast crop'has) been estimated. 
With regard to the extent of the new 1881-82 Rio 
crop, the opinions expressed are, as is always the case, very 
contradictory, mo-t people however count upon a yield 
between 3,000,000 and 3,500,000 bags and we take the 
figure of 3,200,000 bags of 60 kilos we believe to be very 
near to the truth. 
As stated above, so far about 40,000 bags of the new 
crop have arrived here, which are partly shipped and 
partly included in our present stock, 
The quality of the first arrivals was little satisfactory, 
and though the last receipts were of beiter quality, we 
cannot, state the same to teas good as was generally expected. 
The planters complain of the unequal ripening of the 
fruit, whereby the bean will become irregular and defective; 
as soon as a more correct judgment unon this point can 
be formed, we will report again. 
Supposing that the eoruinsr crop would amount to 
about... ... " ... 3,200,000 bags 
and calculating the stock of old coffee 
in the interior and in Rio de Janeiro 
to be to-day about... ... 1,500,000 „ 
thus making together an available 
quantity of... ... 4,700,000 bags 
and further supposing that on 30th 
June 1882, there would remain in 
t he interior a stock of old coffee of 
about... ... 300,000 „ 
