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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[May i, 1882. 
has been up in public sale since we last wrote, fetching 
fairly good prices : — 
Dunedin 
12 
8 
7 
24 
1 
18 
Senibawatte 10 
6 
Ruanwella 
M.R. 
s. d. 
1 3i 
1 4i 
1 2 
1 2 
1 3± 
24 half chests Pekoe Souchong- 
do Brok. Pekoe 
do Pekoe Souchong 
do Brok. Pekoe 
chests Pekoe Souchong 
half chest „ „ „ „ 
do Brok. Pekoe 1 2 
do Pekoe Souchong 1 3| 
do Brok. Pekoe 1 2| 
The tea under the mark M. P., which sold so badly in 
December, has evidently been improved upon. There is, we 
hear, some Rookwood tea up next week, which will proba- 
bly go cheaply, on account of the accident to the vessel 
bringing it home, although this has not, we hear, affected 
the quality of a large consignment of Indian tea by the 
same steamer —Yours faithfully, HUTCHISON & Co. 
Remedy foe, Scorpion Stings. — A very simple, 
but effectual, remedy for scorpion stings is to apply 
heat to the part affected. I have tried it for several 
years, and never on a single occasion found it to 
fail. — Madras Mail. 
Scorpion Stings, — With reference to a small ex- 
tract from the Madras Mail, which appeared in our 
issue of the 22nd instant, we are reminded by an 
old correspondent that moistened quick lime, or 
chunam, as it is called in Ceylon, if applied at once, 
is a sovereign renifdy for all stings including the 
sting of a scorpion, and the next best thing is a 
poultice of ipccacul aaa. Of course this remedy does not 
apply to the stings or rather bites of snakes, in which 
case excision of tbe bitten part is all that can be done. 
Chasericulture is a new term used to describe 
the combined industries of tea and silk. It includes 
the planting, cultivation, and the manipulation of 
tea and the mulberry, and the rearing of the silkworm. 
"Cha" means the dry prepared leaves of the tea- 
plant; "seri" comes from serieum, silk; and the 
remaining word is obvious. Tea and silk are advan- 
tageously cultivated together, hence the compound 
term. — Chemist and Druggist. [Mr. Wm. Cochran, 
brother of Mr. M. Cochran of Colombo has been ad- 
vocating attention to these industries in New Zealand 
in a paper read before the Society of Arts from which 
we mean to extract.— Ed.] 
Sale of Cinchona Bark. — The Deputy Conser- 
vator of Forests, in charge of Cinchona Plantations, 
Neilgherris, in a report to the Conservator of Forests, 
dated 18th January last, says I hat the auction sale of 
cinchona bark took place on the llih instant at 
Messrs. Oakes & Co.'s sale-room, Madras ; the at- 
tendence was fair, and Messrs. Croysdale & Co., 
and Parry & Co., were the only purchasers. 
According to the list of prices realized, one hundred 
bales were sold for Es. 16,106. T ie upset price of 
the above fixed iii accordance with orders of Go- 
vernment being Es. 15,106, there was a surplus of 
Ks. 592, considered as pure gain over the net sale 
proceeds, which the 100 bales would have fetched in 
the London market. The Deputy Conservator con- 
siders the experiment of a local sale satisfactory. He 
does not think there is any advantage gained by sell- 
ing bark in the country ; in fact the reverse. On 
the above report the Government passed the follow- 
ing order. Individual applications were being made 
to Government for the bark, and it, was resolved to 
try a few auction sales with the object of develop- 
ing a local demand, which private growers might 
supply. The present is the only sale that, has yet 
taken place, and the net result shows more profit 
than if the bark had been sold at home. A couple 
more sales should be made iu the course of a year, 
and the results published for the information of private 
dealers, — Madras Times. 
The Silk Industry in Bengal has for some time 
past been in a languishing state. The immediate cause 
is believed to be the degeneracy of the Bengal worm 
through want of care and cleanliness on the part of 
the native rearers. At one time silk producers and 
silk manufacturers prospered. The supply of " eggs" 
and the reaiing of the worms till the cocoons ate spun 
are left by the European manufacturers entirely to 
native enterprise. And from indolence and the desire 
to avoid any outlay that does not appear to be absol- 
utely necessary, the native grower goes on annually 
rearing worms from seed that is degenerating. — Madras 
Mail. 
flexible Ivory. — Ivory, which in its normal state 
is so hard and rigid, can nevertheless be softened arti- 
ficially by the following process : — It is to be first 
immersed in a solution of pure phosphoric acid of 
specific gravity 1*3 until it loses, or partially loses, 
its opacity, and becomes translucent. It is tben washed 
in clean cold water, and dried, when it will be found 
as flexible as leather, but it speedily hardens on ex- 
posure to dry air. Dipping it in hot water will, how- 
ever, soon restore its pliancy and softness. Another 
method consists in plugging the ivory into a mixture 
of three ounces of nitric acid and fifteen ounces of 
water, and leaving it to steep for three or four days, 
during which it soften. — Home Paper. 
Calisaya Verde.— The seeds of some valuable new 
species or varieties of cinchona that have not, it 
seems, as yet been introduced to the Indian plan- 
tations, have recently been consigned to Messrs. Christy 
& Co. of Fenchurch St. These new forms are very 
rich in quinine. It is said that better results are to 
be obtained by cultivating the calisaya verde than the 
calisaya fina, because although the former yields only 
to 9 per cent, of pure sulphate of quinine, yet it 
yields twice the amount of bark as the fina or 
ledgeriana. The produce of the calisaya verde in 
equivalent to from 13 to 18 per cent of quinine. 
Moreover from the fact that the calisaya verde is a 
more vigorous tree than the delicate ledgeriana 
and will grow at a lower elevation, it is obvious that it 
can be cultivated to a much greater extent and may be 
extremely valuable for grafting the ledgeriana upon, 
more especially since the attempt to graft the ledgeriana 
on C. succirubra has proved unsuccessful. — Natur 6m 
Indian Students of Agriculture and Law. — A 
resolution was passed in 1879 by the Government of 
Bengal for the establishment of agricultural scholar- 
ships for the benefit of natives, graduates of the Uni- 
versity of Calcutta, at the Eoyal Agricultrural College, 
Cirencester. The first two scholars entered this college 
in January 1880, and are now making there a very 
successful career. These were Babu Ambika Charen 
Sen, M.A , and Syed Sekbawat Hosein. B.A. The 
Indian Daily News states that the two new students 
appointed by the Bengal Government to enter at 
Cirencester in January next are Baboos Brojobullnb 
Dutt, M. A., and Greesh Chunder Bose, M. A. The 
former is the head master of the Sreebeur Bungshe- 
dhur School at Nawabguuge, and is the Gold Medallist of 
1880 in Physical Science, and latter a lecturer on 
chemistry at the cuttack College. An allowance of 
£200 a year — tenable for two and a half years — will 
be granted to each of these candidates, and an 
outfit allowance of l,000rs. has also been sanctioned 
to each of them. Mr. Muncheerjee Dadabhoy Dady- 
sett, a Parsee gentlemen from Bombay, late magis- 
trate and sub-judge in Baroda, and now of the 
Middle Temple, who was awarded, in January 1S81, 
the second prize, worth £25, in Common Law, was 
yesterday again awarded by the Council of Legal Edu- 
cation a further prize of £25 in Common Law. Mr. 
Dadysett is the first native of India who has twice 
succeeded in a competitive examination anunally held 
by the four Inns of Court.— Colonies and India.' 
