October t, 1881.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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«e would have for export during the 
ruxt twelve months about... 
4.400,000 bae 
or about the same quantity as has been shipped during the 
crop season just closed. 
Shipments of Coffee from Rio t>e Janeiro. 
during tho last six years, say : from 1st July lo 30th 
Juno, viz : 
1875-76 1876-77 1877-78 
tons. tons. tons. 
Channel, Germany & England... 27,887 24,016 20,817 
Sweden, Norwav, Denmark & 
Baltic... " 3,270 2,071 1,141 
Havre, Bordeaux & Antwerp... 13,411 15,380 10,287 
North of Europe 41,508 41467 3n,275 
Mediterranean... 17,160 21 963 17,180 
Europe 61,728 03,430 55,461 
United States... 98,529 90;056 86,319 
Gape* of Good Hope & Sundries... 4,771 5,822 0,215 
Total tons... 
ir.5,(i2S 159,:!l).S ] pi <|'.I5 
Average. 
378-70 1870-80 1880-81 in 0 years, 
each 
year. 
tons. 
tons; 
tons. 
tons. 
t hannel, Germany & 
.England... 
. 31,991 
25,924 
41,701 
28,728 
Swedon, Norway, 
Den- 
mark & Haiti 
3... 921 
1,402 
1,374 
1,690 
Havre, Bordeaux 
& 
Antwerp- 
.. 24,239 
12,157 
37,988 
19,910 
North of Kurope. 
50 331 
Mediterranean... 
14,032 
20.478 
Europe 
.. 77.950 
54,115 
11 2, 192 
70,812 
United States 
.. 121,966 
110,310 
123,454 
105,439 
Cape oiy:,. d Ho 
pe & 
... 10,545 
8,352 
18,753 
9,076 
Totnl tons 
... 210,161 
172,777 
25 1,399 
185,327 
LlVER. — Mmc. Sand wrote that in her opinion many 
obscure cases of disea e of the liver were owing to 
the compression caused by the right elbow, which 
presses against the side during our usual method of 
writing from left to right. She also referred to 
scoliosis, or spinal curvature, induced, as she thought 
by the same cause. As a remedy, she proposed that 
children should be taught to write straight, form- 
ing vertical letters, the paper being placed vertically 
before the writer. M. J aval has arrived at the same 
conclusions in more recent times, and bases his con- 
clusions on scientific deductions. — Neio York Ho r. 
Lihekian Coffee. — A correspondent writes : — " It is 
quite certain, however, that we have growing and 
bearing in Ceylon more than one kind of Liberian. 
I have at Henaratitoda at least two kinds : one 
grows into a well-shaped bush or tiee. This kind 
with me so far is the largest and bears best. The 
other while young (3 years old) is an ungainly top- 
heavy tree. In future, I mean to select seed from the 
best trees. It may be, however, that the others ought 
to be treated differently. Perhaps they may do best 
if not topped and pillowed t> grow into a tall tree '.' 
The subject ought to be ventilated soon so na to know 
which kind is best, etc. etc. I have not noticed any 
Difference in iho appearance of the cherry from the 
two kinds of trees, but the leans from each kind 
ought to be examined and reported on, In my 
case a few hundred plants bought from -, 
(grown from imported seed) have produced more 
or tho lanky kind than the seed (also imported] 
bought From another quarter. On the other baud one 
of my large Innky trees came with tfthf rS of the good 
■nape from the same nursery in IsTS." 
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Fisiiinu WITH Dynamite. — At Maggona, on the 
Galle road, a man named Juse was acculently killed 
by using dymmite to kill fishes. An inquest was 
held on the 24tli mst. and a verdict of " accidental 
death " recorded. It appears that the deceased wa» 
a cooly employed lately in the Nanuoya extension 
work, and on his return to his village he btought with 
him some dynamite, with which he attempted to expe- 
riment in killing fish, and killed himself instead \—Cor. 
CoffkhLeaf Disease and Seaweed Manure.— MS. 
F. Cummins, of the P. W. D., who is about to return 
to Ceylon, writes to us by this mail, as follows : - 
" Has seaweed ever been tried as a manure for coffee ? 
In Cornwall it is considered an invaluable manure for 
fruit trees. Perhaps leaf disease may succumb to 
the effluvia it will emit when it rots " Who has made, 
or will make a trial? During the north-east mon- 
soon, occasionally the Kojlupitiya shore is strewn with 
seaweed which could be easily gathered and despatched 
up-country. 
The Fiji Coffee Leaf Disease Experiment. 
Thete app-ars to be a fatality attending the Great 
Amalgam plantation arbitration case between the Go- 
vernment and Mr. W. F. Parr. After considerable de- 
lay and difficulty in securing the services of a gentle- 
man to act on behalf of the Government, Mr. lledg.-s 
of Tayiuni consented te do so. It only remained for 
the arbitrators to elect an umpire, and all parties 
were ready to proceed to the Waimanu and go on with 
the case yesterday. Now, however, another difficulty 
has arisen. Mr Hedges refuses to consent to the no- 
mination of any person in the colony as umpire and 
suggests one from Ceylon. To this proposition the 
hon. R. B Leel'e, acting on behalf of Mr. Parr, will 
not consent, as it will entail very considerable and 
altogether unnecessary expense, and indefinitely post- 
pone a final settlement. Here the arbitrators are un- 
able to agree and the matter is therefore no further 
advanced than it was nine months ago. Mr. Hedges 
appears to have formed a very low estimate of the 
capacity or honesty of the colonists when he concludes 
that there is not one to be found qualified to give a 
competent and unbiased judgment on this matte' - • 
Fiji Times. [ I his is no doubt Mr. J. K. fledges, 
well-known here as merchant and planter.— Ed.] 
Ceylon Cinchona Bark.— Messrs. James Cook & Co. 
writing on the 5th ult. make the following remarks 
on Ceylon bark : what is said in reference to show 
pieces of red bark, should be specially kept in vow, 
weeks auctions there was an Import marked Stellen- 
berg, 341 package*, one Pile consisting of 177 bales 
good chips and small broken quill, which sold at 
la lOd, 07 b des small chips and young broken branch 
Is 2d, 77 bales root 2; Id, and 90 bags good but 
short and broken quills Is lOd at 2s 4d. It was 
sme what surprising to find in so large a quantity 
of Succirubra from one E-tatc, no well formed unbroken 
quill. The shipment was no doubt very even, but it 
is a mistake not to forward, in the form uf good and 
line quill, all that could be so sent, as co "petition 
from the buyers of show Bark, at times a matter of 
great importance, was necessarily lost. The Portree, 
on tho other hand, without being exceptionally hand- 
some, comprised some really |>nod and fine quill, and 
b' ought as much as5s at 5s 3d per lb., and the emaller 
and more irregular quill 3s Id at 3s Ud, whilst the 
value to a manufacturer was probably not within 
Is at 2s pnr lb. of these price*, as the good chips of 
tho Soino Mark sold nt 'Ja 7d nt 2s 8d. A further 
shipment of 35 bales II irhiltoo the mark to whioh ye 
alluded in our report of tho 2Gth May was of fair 
even qiial ty ; 9 eases renewed JAK was quilled, 
ather unusual for renewed Bark." 
