May i, 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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with land free for ever. 
The above figures are regularly paid by contract 
in working land and bringing the produce to markets. 
75 cents is low ; in October last, wheat was 90 cents 
per bushel. CHARLES REA. 
P. S.— Since writing the above, I have had put into 
my barids your paper of yesterday, containing some 
very valuable information regarding Manitoba, and 
am glad to find that the views therein expressed are 
nearly identical with my own. 1 am happy to say 
I saw no signs of grumbling amongst the farmers in 
the autumn of last year. On the contrary, the crop 
was most prolific and the quality unsurpassed I also 
saw many excellent machines made in the Winnipeg 
factories. C. R. 
HOW TO SELL CHINA TEA. 
Kandy, 16th March 1882. 
Dear Sat,— 1 have taken the following advertise- 
ment from a recent number of Chambers' Journal : — 
TEA Dealers can save money anil obtain good sound 
teas by purchasing of the London ami China tea 
Company, ('lusts, half-du sts, Caddies, and packets, Prices, 
duty paid, !).',d and upwards. Circulars, Price List, and 
samples free"! by addressing— 0. D. STOTT, Manager, 8 
George Street, Minories, E.G. F 3 
Your will notice the very moderate cost at which 
sound (?) China tea can be bought. Why, the duty 
alone is almost double the cost of the tea. 
It is an imposibility that these can be sound teas ; 
but grocers no doubt find that, with the addition of 
a backbone, in the shape of a pure Indian or Ceylon 
tea, the mixture is saleable, and, as the profit, is large, 
the pysteni of mixing up our teas with rubbish of 
this sort will always find favor with a certain class 
of shopkeepers. It is satisfactory, howevor, to think 
of the probability of loss which the producer of those 
"sound" teas has incurred. Even a Chinaman could 
not. do much manipulation and pay shipping and other 
charges for 3id per pound COULD HE? 
IHE LARGE CINCHONA TREES ON GLEN- 
CAIRN, DIKOYA. 
GlencairD, Dikoya, March 21st, 1882. 
Deaii Sin, — Mr. Campbell appears to think there 
must be a discrepancy in the account given of dry 
bark as compared with wet. Perhaps it would ex- 
plain matters if I mentioned that much of the wet 
bark was fully f, of an inch thick.— Yours faithfully, 
F. FOWKE. 
CEYLON CLoN KS AND OTllK>: NEW PRODUCTS 
FOR COFFEE LAND. 
March 21at, 1882. 
My Di:ai; Sin, A short time since, about a fort- 
t night ago, I saw a snle of Ceylon cloves which quite 
topped the market, and over since then I have felt 
somewhat curious to know whore these were grown. 
Possibly, through the medium of your paper, the public 
might be informed, and more particulars of this agree- 
nlile surprise may be placed at the disposal of all. 
From what I can see in in) travels, every plan' which 
pays deserves a trial, especially in coffee land. — Yours 
truly, W. FORRES LAURIE. 
[Mr. P. Moir has been written to, to say where the 
parcel of Ceylon cloves which sold so well, eras pro- 
duced.— Ed.] 
COFFEE ADULTERATION. 
Drak Silt, —Your London correspondent, in his letter 
of February 17th (appearing in the (>/>■<, rr, r of March 
IGth) asserts that it is a fact new t<> him that 
chicory is grown in England to any great extent. 
To shew that the growth of chicory as well as the 
adulteration of codec has been nourishing (?) for 
considerably over thirty years, I send you an extract 
from Jlousehold Words, Saturday, April 12th 1S51. 
Extract referred to :— 
Grocers wanted power, now, to sell chicory and coffee 
mixed. They got that inestimable privilege. Nobody could 
bo sure, when he paid for "Mocha," that ho was not 
itein) bearded by 
pposed by a rival 
it whom it was 
in coffee-growers, 
" had driven us 
of home-grown 
disgust of Poly- 
)k to dining off 
the last of their 
cnighted of the 
1 conviction that 
: t duty of" nearly forty 
>er cent on its average 
wish no persecution 
for fair toleration : 
r taxed chicory. At 
noes " the reader (who 
Ceylon soon found itself, (li 
its own monster " Protection 
at home worse than the fore 
"Protected!" The feelings c 
when they found their own 
here, in England, to drink 
chicory, must have been ver 
phemus's butcher when the 
pine tops. Mr. Armitage, in 
memorials, says, that " even 
colonists, are, at length, awn 
any further clamour for prot 
and that " many of the coff 
The memorial complains thi 
erated substances" — being " s 
to no customs duty or excis 
coffee itself is burdened with s 
shillings per cwt. or one hu: 
value" The melancholy gen 
of the " chicorian " sect : th 
free coffee ; unadulterated co 
the words " other adulterating 
has just breakfasted on old "Mocha:" and perhaps, be- 
ing of a fanciful turn, has been thinking of Mecca, with 
a distant view of a mosque) turns pale. But let his imag- 
ination carry him as far as it will in conjecture on the 
subject, it will fall far short of the realities. It is not 
enough that simple chicory should adulterate coffee ; but 
even that must he villainously compounded, the adultera- 
tions itself being adulterated. Chicory begins but worse — 
that is to say, beans, corn, potato-Hour ; horse-chesuuts, 
acorns, dog-biscuit, rope yarn, Russian glue, brick-dust, 
mahogany saw dust, rotten coffin wood, soot, and " other 
manures " — remain behind. It reads like a bill of some 
Falstaff of tragedy— one halfpenny worth of coffee to this 
intolerable deal of adulteration 1 A competent authority 
tells us of cases which came under his special observations: 
— first, of a large quantity of beans — which decomposition 
had animated into an uufit state for feeding horses — being 
sold to a chicory grinder : and, secondly, of large quan- 
tities of " spent tan " (the refuse of tan yards) being 
systematically ground up to form part of these floating 
masses of commercial pollution. There lies on our table, 
as we write, a red powder, (red ochre) commonly used to 
' colour " the floors of cottages : it is known that waggon 
loads of this have been seen discharged at the door of 
a well-known and extensive, " coffee manufacturer " ! ! Look 
at the summary of the results: The colonists complain; 
the shopkeepers become fraudulent and the poor suffer 
COFFEE LE.\K- DISEASE : CARBOLIC ACID 
AND MR. SCIIKOTTKYS EXPERIMENTS. 
Df.ai; Sik, — It is probable that the planters will 
bo asked erelong to recognize in some substantial 
maimer the services of Mr. Sehrottky in his efforts 
to cure the leaf -d Lease, and, whenever thoy are s> 
called upon, th.ir general wish will be to do justice 
to whatsoeve r claims that g< utlcmnn may reasonably 
establish. Mr. Sehrottky and his method have been 
before the plantem now for a considn able time, and 
the experiments that have been carried out under Mr. 
Sehrottky 's own lup&r vision and direction have beeu 
numerous and extensive. In some instances, a certain 
dogroe of IUOOMM has been admitted ; in others it baa 
licen altogether denied. There have been cases, in 
