November i, 1881.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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50 half-chests Indian pekoe souchong oven wiry 
twisted black leaf, pekoe tips very full strong rich 
fresh Pekoe Souchong Is 2d. 
CEYLON TEA. 
Coylon tea, season 1881-82. Ex R.M.S, "Bokhara," 
from Ceylon. 
100 half-chests Ceylon Pekoe Souchong black 
even wiry leaf, pekoe tips very strong full rich 
ripe, dark-red infusion Passed. 
33 half- chests Coylon Broken Pekoe small even 
black broken leaf, Pekoe tips vory powerful rich 
ripe Pekoe flavour 0s lid. 
07 hal&chests Coylon broken Pekoe small even 
black broken leaf, IV-koo tips very powerful rich 
Pekoe flavour Passed. 
Cirown on the celebrated Duncdin Estate. 
COFFEE EXHIBITIONS. 
The projected coffee expositions abroad, however 
good they may be in theory, can only be effective 
in practice, if they are placed under the management, 
not of the Brazilian consuls, as proposed, but of 
special agents who possess a thorough practical know- 
ledge of the coffee trade, which the consuls seldom 
possess. 
One of the gnat embarrassments with which the 
Brazilian coffee is struggling at present is the dis- 
credit into which it has fallen in the consuming 
markets, and this is attributed to two causes. Firstly, 
to the speculation of some dealers in Europe who, 
in ordor to obtain a better price, unscrupulously pass 
off the best Brazilian coffee as Java or Mocca, and 
declare only the lower qualities as coming from Brazil. 
Secondly, to the bad faith of certain coffee produc- 
ing countries which try to disparage the Brazilian 
product in order to exalt their own. 
In proof of this latter fact a correspondent of the 
Jornal do Oommerdo cites a circular lately scut by the 
Minister of Commerce of Haiti to the consuls that of 
country in Europe, in which he says the folowing : — 
" When there is a considerable fall in the prices 
of coffee, our principal production, of which we export 
more than 60 millions of lb., it is our duty to point 
out to the nations to whom we send that precious 
product, how much superior the Haitian coffee, is in 
taste and aroma, to that of other countries, with the 
exception of Mocc». The qualities of Guadeloupe, 
Porto Rico, Cubi and Jamaica, which can compete 
with ours in aroma, reach the various markets only 
in insignificant quantities. It is for this reason that 
in order to improve the bad taste of Brazilian coffee, 
which is produced to the huge extent of a million 
of bags, the Brazilians employ the coffees of Haiti 
and Java. " 
That circular is being reproduced in most of the 
commercial papers o£ Europe, and it does not appear 
thai, any Brazilian consul did think of protesting against 
its assertions. 
Fow of thorn probably cither know or care much 
about the Bubject, and equally few of them would 
have the capacity, energy, or commercial experience 
necessary to manage the projected coffee expositions, 
or ot take other steps to improve the positiou of 
She Brazilian products aud commercial interestaa broad. 
Canada has set a good example to Brazil in this 
respect. Desirous of extending her commercial rela- 
tions With Brazil, aud having decided on the measures 
to bo adopted, she did not put them in practico 
through her diplomatic or consular representatives in 
Hrazil, but named a special agent for the purpose, 
■electing a Rio morehaut of great commercial experi- 
ence and a thorough practical knowledge of the 
■abject. It being decided that the establishment of 
direct and tubventioned steam communications was 
the Brat step necessary towards the development of 
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the commerce between the two countries, the agent 
of the Canadian Government placed bef re the Im- 
perial Government and the representatives of the 
nation such convincing proof's of the utility of the 
enterprise that the former promptly granted and 
the latter promptly confirmed the subvention. 
The Canadian Government then made it generally 
known in the dominion that they had a special agent 
in Bio always ready and capable of giving to the 
Canadian manufacturers and merchants any informa- 
tions and explanations they might desire, and thus 
the contemplated development of her commercial re- 
lations with Brazil is steadily progressing on a sound 
and practical basis. 
Let Brazil follow a similar plan in the execution 
of her project to hold coffee expositions abroad, and 
then this project may prove as effeetiv« in practice 
as it is good in theory.— Anglo-Brazilian Times. 
We are not amongst those who think that the pro- 
posed Coffee Exhibitions to be held in England and 
America will prove of advantage to Brazil. There 
can be no doubt that the Brazilian coffee trade is 
just now suffering very severely from a variety of 
causes, chief amongst which are the various mixtures 
now sold on this and the other side of the Atlantic 
to the detriment of the sale of the pure article, and 
jbhe action of a few unscrupulous buyers who are 
selling the finest Bio coffee as prime Java or Mocha, 
and are declaring that only the lower qualities come 
from Brazil. It would be difficult, we know, to put 
a stop to this practice, but it would be far more 
difficult to compel the British or American consumer 
to pay Is 8d per lb. for pure coffee when he can 
get a very palatable substitute for lOd. Almost every 
English grocer now has a mixture of bis own, which 
is put up in 1-lb. tins and sold for 10d, and we are 
informed that where a pound of pure coffee is sold 
twenty of these tins arc disposed of. If the planters 
aud merchants of Brazil think that by establish- 
ing Coffee Exhibitions here and in the United States 
they would be successful in changing the tastes of 
the consumer, we venture to say that they will find 
themselves wofully mistaken. And, besides where 
could such an Exhibition be held here to prove at- 
tractive and at the same time remunerative, for we 
presume that it is not meant that they should be carried 
on at a loss ? We 
the Crystal Palo 
the success that 
that if a Coffee 
prove less attrac 
of much smaller 
now a Wool Exhibition at 
it has proved nothing like 
icipated, and we ate afraid 
ion were got up it would 
i for it must necessarily be 
ons, and there would be 
nothing like the same variety as at the Crystal 
Palace Wool Exhibition, Most astonishing of all, we 
note that "it is proposed to bave such exhibitions 
every year." One year's experience, we have not the 
slightest doubt, would prove quite sufficient to show the 
inutility of the scheme ; and if we wanted any evidence 
on this point we should only have to turn to the special 
trade exhibitions which l ave been held in London during 
the past twelvemonths We have made these remarks 
solely in the interests of the planters and merchants 
of Brazil, feeling assured that, so far as this country- 
is concerned, at least the establishment of a Coffee Ex- 
hibition would prove a great loss to all concerned, 
and we would conned thiin to keep their money in 
their pockets —Brazil and Biotr Plate Moil. 
CEYLON TEA IN AUSTRALIA. 
(From Our Correspondent.) 
Melbourne, 12th Sept. 1881. 
On the 2nd Septombor, another successful salo of Indian 
teas ex " Rollo" took place at auction The trade run 
ou the Darjeeling Pekoe and IVkoe Souchongs paying 
