April i, 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. 
847 
Schrottky's carbolized powder, mixed ready for applic- 
ation, i. e., in a 3 per cent strength', lias been used 
for now Dearly a yenr with great success down at 
Kalutara in Liberian coffee nurseries, to keep down 
leaf-disease. A moderat edusting witli the powder every 
fortnight or so seems sufficient. The following are 
the outlines of Mr. Schrottky's intended operation?: — 
1. - -Leaf-disease can only be practically got under, in a 
given area, by the carbolized powder treatment, that is 
to say, the majority of accumulated spores and actually 
growing fundus more or less prevalent at all times 
of the year can only be killed, if operations are com- 
menced during March and April, when the fundus 
is least vigorous and reproduction most slow. This 
it is intended to effect by a couple of general applic- 
ations of an impalpable fine powder containing 3 to 4 
per cent of carbolic acid, the powder being thrown 
through the foliage of the coffee trees, and by reason 
of its line extreme fineness penetrating everywhere. 
These applications to be given at a fortnight's interval, 
with a third additional dose to panicularly badly 
affected places. 
2. To prevent re-infection by the spores and other 
forms of this fungus, which are being constantly 
supplied by neighbouring places and conveyed by wind 
to any part of the island, the atmosphere of an estate 
must be constantly and continually tainted by carbolic 
acid vapour. This taint, however faint it may be, 
is a powerful enough agent to cause the collapse of 
the microscopically fine and delicate germinating tubes 
of the spores of JJemileia, before they can enter the 
stomata of the leaf, though it is not strong enough 
to kill the fungus when once established in I he tissue 
of the leaf. The Buccess of this part of the treatment 
depends therefore upon the uninterrupted presence of 
carbolic acid vapour in the atmospheric air, so that 
no germinating spore can escape it. 
This it is intended to ensure by exposing at stated 
>ut the estate, in vessels of a cheap 
per cent carbolic acid powder ; the 
vessels to be changed every fort- 
intervals thn 
description, ;i 
powder in tl 
night through 
The cost of 
all these operations including labour, etc., 
is estimated not to exceed R30 per acre during the 
first year, and R15. or R20 din ing the second year. 
The cost during the first year will therefore be not 
more than that of a single application of sulphur and 
lime 
'•On a beautiful summer day, the leaves on a tree 
jffbispered softly to the zephyrs, and, as their shadow 
fell upon the valley, thus did they speak, vaunting 
their luxuriant verdure: 'Is it not true that we are 
tho pride of the whole valley? Is it not by us that 
this tree is rendered so bushy and wide-spreading, 
so stately and majestic ? What would it be without us ? 
Yes, indeed : wo may praise ourselves without com- 
mitting a sin ! Do uot we, by our cool shade, protect 
the shepherd and the traveller from the heat? Do 
not we, by our beaury, attract the shepherdess to 
dance here ? From among us in the morning and the 
evening twilight, tli i nightingale sings : and as to you 
zephyrs, you scarcely ever desert us.' ' You might add 
a word of thanks eveu to us, answered a feeble voice 
from underground.' 1 Who is it that dares thus audaci- 
ously to call us to account? Who are yon who are 
talking thus?' The leaves began to lisp noisily, tossing 
on tho tree. ' Wo are they,' was the reply from down 
below, ' who, burrowing in darkness here, provide you 
with nourishment, [a it possible tbat yon do not 
recognize us? Wo are the roots of the tree on which 
Son Boorish j go on rejoicin; in your beauty j only 
remember there in this difference between us, that, with 
tho now sp ing i new foliage is born ; bat, if the 
roots perish, neither yon nor the tree can eilrvivo.'" 
COFFEE AND CHICORY. 
Following up the local agitation and the letters of 
Mr. Thomas Dickson, we have now received (through 
a 0 ilombo merchant) a copy of a printed circular by 
Mr. H. Pasteur of Messrs. Party & Pasteur, which 
affords the strongest support yet given to the cause 
of the producer. After reading Mr. Pasteur's figures 
and remarks, the Ceylon merchants and planters who, 
r, opposed a memorial on the subject ought 
tshamed of themselves ; and we may well 
the thanks of the planting community to the 
Broker who has put. the case for relief for 
Coffee in the United Kingdom, and protection against 
"adulteration," so clearly : — 
Consumption of Coffee in the United Kinodoji, from 
1842 to 1881. 
Table shewing the quantity of Coffee (in lb.) uj>on 
which duty was paid for home consumption in each 
year from 1842 to 1881 ; also shewing the price oj 
Native Ceylon Coffee on the 1st January, 1st May, 
and 1st September in each year, the amount of duty 
charged upon Coffee, the duty charged on Chicory, 
last y 
to feel 
expres 
Londo 
Year. 
Price of good ordin- 
ary Native Ceylon. 
Duty paid 
upon — lb. 
Jan. 1, May 1, Sep. 1. 
1842 67s 77s 73s 28,567,1:57 
1843 
1844 
1845 
1846 
1847 
«1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
M.852 
cl853 
1854 
1855 
1856 
1857 
1858 
1859 
r/1800 
el861 
1802 
HS63 
' 1864 
1865 
1866 
1867 
lsr,s 
1869 
1870 
1871 
gim 
1873 
lsn 
1875 
1876 
1S77 
1878 
1879 
1880 
1881 
61s 
61s 
52s 
49s 
42s 
34s 
32s 
55s 
57s 
39s 
45s 
52s 
51s 
50s 
59s 
63s 
67s 
72s 
68s 
70s 
58s 
64s 
53s 
50s 
51s 
53s 
09s 
so, 
I L0a 
85s 
90s 
89s 
85s 
05 s 
70s 
58s 
50s 
45s 
42s 
33s 
31s 
40s 
42s 
42s 
47s 
51s 
72s 
74s 
60s 
68s 
67s 
60s 
50s 
62s 
51s 
57s 
49s 
55s 
29s 
39s 
44s 
47s 
45s 
30,031,422 
31,391,297 
34,318,121 
36,793,061 
37,472,153 
37,107,279 
34,431,414 
31,226,840 
32,564,194 
35,043,573 | 
37,091,770 I 
37,471,014 . 
35,876,116 | 
35,110,2.-/2 I 
Duty per lb. 
From 9 July, 
1842,on B.P. 4d. 
On Foreign 6d. 
April, 1851, re- 
duced to 3d upon 
all sorts. 
April, 1855, duty 
increased to 4d 
peril), during the 
Russian War. 
68s 74s 
87s 
79s 
80s 
71s 
08a 
03s 
r.ss 
34.664.135 
32,986,116 | 
31.5S9.597 ;- 
30.743.212 
30.939.S13 
31,660,677 
30,608,237 
29,108.932 
30,629,710 
31,010,725 
31,661.811 1 
82,380,928 
31,860,080 
32,526,256 
88,841,728 
82,880,224 
88,898,248 
B4,696,256 
89,669,824 
81,948,408 
April 6, 1857, 
duty again re- 
duced to 3d. 
per lb. 
May 1, 1872. 
duty reduced to 
ljd per II... (lis 
per ewt.l 
a An imitation eonum-in . d 
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