April r, 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
86 S 
ORANGE-GROWING- NEAR WANG All AT TA. 
Mr. Brien had been engaged in the orange plant- 
ations in New South Wales, and in choosing Ms 
site his practised eye discovered a small nook in a 
gorge at tho foot of the ranges that gave every pro- 
SjiBfi of being suitable to tho growth of I lie orange. 
He cleared oil the timber, and having procured some 
young orange trees from Sydney, mado his first 
experiment, which answered so well that he was in- 
duced to plant an extensive orange grove. As it was 
risky and somewhat expensive to import the young 
trees from Sydney, he adopted tho plan of raising 
young plants by layering the old ones. The orange 
trees raised by this process are said never to make 
well-shaped ur vigorous trees. This has not been 
the case in Mr. Brieu's experieuce, for the most vigor- 
ous and shapely trees in his plantation are those 
raised from layers. 
The soil in which the 'plantation has been formed 
iM a patch of deep kindly vegetable soil, a 
little over seven acres in extent. It is completely 
sheltered by the range on three sides, and lies open 
only to the cast. The trees receive but little manure, 
and scarcely any water, and yet no trees could be 
more healthy or bear heavier crops. The patch of 
good soil on which tho trees are planted is very 
clearly dcliued, and a yard or so out of a certain 
boundary the trees show by their dwarfed and sickly 
look that the soil is unsuitable to their growth. 
Most of the trees on the border of the good soil 
have been removed and lemons planted in their 
place ; they thrive well, and there is a constant 
Demand for their fruit. Citrons and shaddocks also 
grow well and bear freely. The varieties of oraDge 
grown are St. Michael, blood, navel, Parramatta seed- 
ling, Kmperor, and thorny mandarins and cumquats. 
Mr. Brien is strongly of opiuion that fine flavoured 
oranges can only be grown on tho hills, and that 
there ate very few localities indeed in which they 
can be grown to leave a profit. — Australasian. 
TEA DRYING 
Mr. .1. M. Robert 
Company's ( 1 aniens 
paratus which he hi 
ON' 
'YPHOON. 
the Arcuttipore Tea 
i new tea-drying ap- 
yphoon." A number 
Of til 
invitation, to test the m 
quote the verdict recoid 
words, and also append I 
hi winch were manufact 
tho triil. Tho "Typhoon 
construction of brick aud 
nthoul skilled labor. Tl: 
coke, and the quantity ol 
of tea is stated to be on 
out-turn from the "Typl 
rate of one-half mauud < 
hour, and tho manner in 
was to our entire Batisfac 
that tho apparatus was c 
inventor leads us to unci 
of construction and mate) 
and we do not see that 
We are unanimously of o 
at present in use are very 
that they will be beaten oil' 
HUM following are some of the chief features and 
advantages of this machine: — Int. — The low cost. 2nd. 
— Durability, there being nothing except tho trays that 
can suffer from wear and tear. '.in/. — The small quanl ity 
<>f fuel required — about J maund of coko lor kutcha 
firing I maund of Tea. 4</».— Ease in stoking, the 
furnace not requiring attention ottoncr thin onco every 
I.J to 2 hours. 5th. — Abttyhrte and* immediate coutrol 
over the temporHturu, which can tie raised or lowered 
on the 
) during 
qicnsive 
S thinking 
lore. The 
entire cost 
ver R300, 
exceeded. 
the dryers 
d in price, 
Typhoon. " 
instantaneously. Glh. — No "getting up heat" required - 
In fifteen minutes after beginning to light the fire> 
the apparatus is ready for work. 7th. — Requires no 
troublesome cleaning out. 8th.— Quantity. Tho 
apparatus is capable of drying at least 40 lb. an 
hour, and has frequently dried over 50 lb. — 
Quality of tea is equal to that obtained by any process 
hitherto introduced. — Indian Tea Gazette. 
JACKSON'S NEW SELF-ACTING TEA DRYER. 
Messrs. W. & J. Jackson have invented a new 
apparatus that will deal with the Tea itself through- 
out the drying process, and thus, they submit, secure 
a perfection in the dessication of the leaf not hitherto 
obtained. The objects arrived at by the new invention 
are as follows : — 1st. — After the leaf is fed into the 
machine it requires no more attention until it is dis- 
charged dry. 2nd. — Every individual leaf is simul- 
taneously exposed in precisely a similar manner to the 
action of the heated air, thus producing an unvaried 
and perfectly even dried leaf. 3rd. — The Tea is steadily 
but very slowly kept in motion, thereby dispensing 
with the tetlious and tiring watchfulness of attendants, 
hitherto required in Tea drying on the tray system. 
4<A. — There are no trays about the machine to handle, 
and it is, therefore, thoroughly durable and cannot 
get out of order. In operating with the machine, a 
boy or attendant has simply to spread the leaf on a 
slowly-moving feeding web or band, which carries it 
forward and places it in the machine, where it is 
steadily but inactively kept in motion, and in due 
course is discharged dry and crisp from a shoot at 
tho delivery end ; so long therefore as the attendant 
continues to supply the maohine with leaf, it will 
steadily dry and discharge it, and should he have 
occasion to leave the machine at any time, no injury 
can take place to the leaf in the apparatus, as it must 
pass on and be discharged. The leaf is continuously, 
but very slowly, turned over, disentangled and in- 
dividually presented to the action of the heated 
air by a peculiar combination of concentric cylinders, 
thus ensuring not only the most uniform fermentation, 
but the drying of each leaf being simultaneously effected 
alike, must produce an unvaried briskness, and quakty 
of liquor not obtainable from any of the methods of 
drying at present known. The machine will dry ab out 
40 maunds of green leaf per clay, aud it will be 
approximately 9 ft. long, 3 ft. 6 in. wide, by about 
8 ft. high. The apparatus will take very little driving, 
which can either be effected by steam or hand power. 
It is very simple, easily erected and self-contained. 
It will be especially suitable for the final drying of 
Tea, as the chests can be placed under the delivery 
shoot to be filled and closed up whilst tho Tea is 
hot and crisp. — Indian Tea Gazette. 
THE TOBACCO TRADE OF INDIA. 
The total value of exports of Tobacco from India 
has l 
cent 
Ave years about 5S per 
ligures are — 
E. 
891,398 
1,108,310 
Difference more. 
..IC.'.U-.' 
Last year's exports woro, in quantity, as follows 
lb. 
Unmanufactured leaf ... 13, lo'7,3'25 
Cigars ... ... 207.005 
Other manufacture! T ibacco I l»S, S» 1 1 
Total imports 
13. (573, HI 
