March i, 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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took good care to establish myself in what I considered 
the bust locality. The title of my property is good, 
as I paid the natives every pennyworth asked for it, 
and my deeds are well drawn out and all property 
witnessed there can be no possible doubt of iis se- 
curity. Although the greater portion of it was pur- 
chas d 9 years ago, the natives all round acknowledge 
my right to it, and there has never been the slightest 
dispute of ownership. I have beautiful creeks of fresh 
water on Itathmoy also, and a large extent of as lino 
sugar land as there is in the world. My chief reason 
for proposing this arrangement is that 1 find it rather 
too much to be continually shifting myself about 
Between Rathmoy anil Sea-view. - 1 am not so young as 
I was 20 years ago, being now in my 47th year and 
the continual separation from my wile of a week and 
a fortnight at a time is very unpleasant and lonely 
for both. There can be no harm done in proposing 
the matter to some of your Ceylon friends, and, if 
they deem the thing advisable, they can come over 
at oner, or communicate with me without loss of 
time. So now, as I think I have laid the matter before 
you in an intelligible form I will say good-bye for 
the present and remain, yours truly, 
Robert Glissan. 
BOFFEB LEAF-DISEASE : MR. STORCK'S MODE 
OP "PATENT EVAPORIZATION." 
.1, Laurence Pountney Lane, London, E. C, 
12th January 1882. 
Dear Sib, — I have been reading the last Over- 
maid Observer, and ha-e perused with much interest 
Mi-. Sfcorck's letter of 20th October 1881, in which 
he states that the cure he avers to have discovered 
for " leaf-disease" is a system of permanent, vaporization. 
All concerned must agree that Mr. Storck is fully 
Ratified in withholding his secret, until he has ob- 
tained a well-secured guarantee (in which the Go- 
vernments of Indii aid Ceylon should unite with 
the c (Fee planters of both countries) for a reward, 
which should be commeusurate with the immense 
interests it would benefit, if Mr. Storck's process 
proved a succe-s ; a stated time, however, to be named 
to thoroughly establish this point of a successful remedy. 
I 1 would suggest either of the following as the 
most suitable forms of reward. Eilher that the two said 
Governments should alone give the reward ; or that 
a put nl, free of expense, should be granted to Mr. 
Storck for his process, to extend over a given num- 
ber of years, and that all planters availing I hems Ives 
of it should annually pay a certain moderate fee of 
so much p t acre. 
If the process proved successful, an ordinance should 
then be passed nuking it compulsory that all coffee 
planters should make use of it, until such time as the 
■lease had completely disappeared. All abandoned 
estates and gardens should have th • coffee rooted 
mm" by law ; and •! natives neglected to use tho 
remedy, their gardens should bo treated in like manner. 
By such means alone, if wo believe in such men 
as Thwaites, Abbay, Morris, Marshall Ward, and 
Storck, c "ild the p st bo 'horoughly stamped out, — 
Yours faithfully, WILLIAM SA HON A 1)1 ERE, 
LOCAL MARKET FOR TEA. 
D*AR Sik, — With reference to your correspondent's 
li tter of the 6th mst., which appears in your paper 
of yesterday, i e.-peet iug a local maikot for tea, I 
jbould recommend your friend "A. "and several i wnera 
"i mall blocks to send down their tea to jome one 
in Colombo, ami make a small depot here. 1 shall 
be gl.ul to be "f service to thorn in rendering them 
every assistance, and I might possibly givo them a 
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fair idea of the value in the London market I ex- 
pect to receive very shortly samples of Ceylon tea, 
and, having a knowledge of tea-tasting, acquired in a 
Loudon dealer's office, I may bo of use to them. 
I have orders already, but cannot bit upon the 
quality I want. — Yours truly, B. 
COFFEE STATISTICS. 
Deyenewatte, Passara, 24th Jan. 1882. 
Dear Sir,— On reading the Statist's article on 
coffee production and trade of the world, it occurs to 
me that there is an error in the Java statistics, ' 
9G.000 tons being the highest, and 42,000 tons the 
lowest ; the former being reduced to cwt. L'^O.OO 1 ) 
(one million, nine hundred and twenty thousand cwt.), 
and the latter only 810,000 cwt. (eight hundred and 
forty thousand cwt. exported). 
I do not like to trusr the printer's devil with figures 
only, and therefore give the quantity in brackets in 
writing, for even that wonderful book of Tropical. 
Agriculture, by Simmonds is misprinted, giving the out- 
turn of coffee of the world at one million cwt. instead of 
ten million cwt. (Look it up for yourself, Mr. Editor. )+ 
Your own statistics of the coffee produetiou of tho 
world were usually ten million cwt. something like 
as follows : — Brazil 5 millions 
Java 2£ „ 
Ceylon 1 ,, 
Other coffee producing countries includ- 
ing India ... ... ... ... 11 
or ten million cuit.^.. 
Now, we find Brazil pouring into the market dur- 
ing the current season 1S30-S1, crop of six millions 
four hundred and eighty thousand hundredweights, 
viz. from Rio ... ... 5,OSO,000 cw t. 
From Santos ... ... 1,400,000 ,, 
Total Brazil ... ... 6,480.000 ,, 
Ceylon crop being only half- a- million or less by 
forty thousand hundredweights, and less than half the 
outturn of 1S72 and 1S73. 
It would be interesting to discover whether the 
Java statistics are correct or not, because, at present, 
they point to a decrease of two-thirds, or f ly over 
a million cwt. on the average. So far this fact wo aid 
show Java a greater sufferer from leaf-disease an I short 
crops in proportion to Ceylon.\\ 
Both the abovenamed countries have the advant- 
age of Ceylon in being euabled to extend cultivation 
as railway extension progresses and woe to the Ce\ Ion 
Government for not taking greater care of her slupla 
product. — I remain, dear sir, yours faithfully, 
HKNRY CoTT.W! 
LOCAL MARKET FOR TEA. 
February GLh, IS 2. 
Dear Sir, — Will you permit me to ask, through the 
medium of your valuable journal, whether a local 
market can be found for small lots of carefully manu- 
factured tea I a'-k, as owners of small blocks of tea 
planted on trial do not caro to export small quantities, 
,v, I believe, sm ill lots do not usually pay to export. 
You, who know everything, may bo able to givo us a 
hint. -Yours truly, A. 
[Our correspondent should try the local storekeepers. 
-Ku-] 
• We have answered this by anticipation. The 
figures are correct. — En. 
t Simmonds' book has a number of gross orrors.— El>. 
X Our last Handbook gave 1 I million cwt. as the quant- 
ity exported, the producing countries oonaamin | t. [ a 
millions more. — Ed. 
Apart from loaf-diseaso, seasonal inline, lV9 a „,l 
ether e 1 1 en mst ancos tell on Java orop. — FiD. 
