June i, 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
1077 
NILGIRI CINCHONA BARK DESPATCHED TO 
LONDON. 
A Madras Government paper, dated 8th March, con- 
aius a formidable array of figures, each one of 300 bales 
of cinchona, sent by P. & O. steamer Ncpaul, being des- 
cribed in detail. The uniform net weight of the bale i was 
102 lb., so as to leave 1001b. net, after 2 lb. had been 
taken for analysis. The weight of each gunny package 
was 8 lb., so that the gross weight of each pack igi was 
I 1011). We quote the abstract invoice of 300 bales of bark 
forwarded from the Government Cinchona Plantations, 
Naduvatam and Pykara, Nilgiris, during the official 
year 1881-82 :— 
Marks and Numbers. Gross. Tare. Nett. 
lb. lb. lb. 
f 171 to 239 and 292 to 315) 
/ or.,1 'Win tr. Q/iQ Am t 0 \-i9 030 1, 
N -l and 320 to 343 and 401 
( 166. J 
384 
I7,iui;,/ 
W { 466 ?o470 6 10 } 7 ' 15,) 520 6 ' 6306 
375 to 291 and 316 to 319) 
and .'111 to 375 and 457 V 6,820 496 0,324c 
to 465. J 
P 1 to 17 ... 1,870 136 l,734r/ 
P 18 to 30 ... 1,430 104 1,326« 
P 31 to 44 ... 1,540 112 1,428/ 
P 45 to 60 ... 1,760 128 l,632y 
Total... 39,600 2,880 36,720 
Description of bark Number of Bales 
a Natural red bark, 186!) planting ; grass 173 
land, Naduvatam ; 5,050 elevation. 
h Primings red, 180!) planting ; grass laud, 65 
Naduvatam ; 5,( " 
a Root bark r 
■ation. 
!) planting grass 
elevation, 
sun-dried), 1866 
I'll lie; 
Hi 
. Root red hark (sun-dried i, I MM 
plantation; Honker. Decaying trees. 
/' Renewed red hark i sun-dried I, 1 
planting; Hooker. Decaying trees. 
g Natural red bark (sundricd), 1861 
planting ; Hooker. Decaying trees. 
Also a letter from J. H. Taylor, Esq., Lieutenant, 
R.N.R., Master Attendant, Madras, to the Secretary 
to Government, Revenue Department, dated Madras, 
Stli March 1S82 :— 
" I have the honor to inform you that, on the 
requisition of the Deputy Conservator of Forests, in 
Charge of Cinchona Department, Nilgiris, freight has 
been engaged per P. & 0. Steamer Nepaul for 360 
bales of cinchona bark, consigned to the Right Hon. 
the Secretary of State for India, London, at the rate 
of (£3-12-0) three pounds, twelve shillings, and six 
pence per tOD, and that they have been insured for 
(£4,000) four thousand pounds at the rate of one per 
cent., covering all risks. Hoth freight and insurance 
premium are payable in London. I herewith forward 
two ' "pus of the bill of lading, which also covers 
insurance risk for tho above consignment. The accom- 
panying list shows the measurements of the bales as 
taken by the second Assistant Master Attendant or 
Atont for Shipping and Landing Government Con- 
rignmentB, and it will be seen that they amount to 
51 tons, 25 feet, and 1,454 inohea. The freight pay- 
able is (i! l97-12-5§) ouo hundred and niuety-seven 
pounds, twelve shillings, and livc-andlive-eighth pence, 
and tb" insurance premium is (I'll)) forty pounds. The 
Nepaul sailed on the 4tb instant (March)." [It will tlius 
be seen that the mea-urcuienl tonnage of ."Oh hales "f 
cinchona, weighing grops 311,000 lb. and nut 3(5,720; 54 
ton , 'J.'" feet and 1,151 inches; the I'. A O. Company i 
freight being £197 and insurance A'R).— Eii. 
BUG-SUCKED COFFEE BKANS. . 
A Badulla correspondent writes : — " The accompany, 
ing sample of coffee beans are forwarded for your in- 
spection. They were picked a few days ago mi an 
estate in this district, and appear to be affected by some 
disease which has hitherto not come under my observ- 
ation. Can you account for this seemingly new pest." 
With this letter came, a match-box rilled with parch- 
ment beans which look as if they had ben cut in 
pulping. On turning to Nietncr's " Enemies of the 
Coffee Tree," we find that the originator of the dam- 
age is a bug, Strachia yeomelrica, allied to ihe so-called 
green or fwtid bug. The late Mr. Alexander Brown 
seems to have been the first to receive specimens from 
Badulla, and subsequently the destruction caused by 
this insect was confirmed by several other genilemen 
from Badulla. The bug feeds on the juices of 
/hen 
very yo 
and the 
the 
the beans mature 
parchment skin, or much If 
ment skin and bean had been 
value of the coffee sent to u 
ally diminished. Has this 
noticed in any other district 
A planter who was in ou 
us that he had secu coffee \ 
hail and which, when pulped, 
fered from smallpox. This v 
pox comes out on cinchona ba 
against it. In Ceylon, however, hail showers are rare 
and innocent of evil, as compared with continental India. 
nces ot the berry 
>s shewn when 
unctures in the 
ks as if parch- 
ly. The market 
ie most materi- 
its effects been 
lis morning told 
been struck by 
is if it had sut- 
.rance of small- 
tones strike 
LOW-COU iN TRY PRODUCTS. 
Near Henaratgoda, 2nd May 1SS2. 
April. — The weather this mouth has been drier than 
the normal April. There were some heavy showers the 
first three days, and again showers for five days in 
the middle, but, through all, the water in the wells 
has continued to go down, and the last week of the 
month was intensely dry. 
The Liberian coffee plants have had to be watered 
twice a day, except on the days ou which rain fell, 
and I am now anxious for planting weather, that I 
may get them out to the field, where they will be 
safer than in baskets, from which the sun sucks 
every atom of moisture in a few hours, unless we 
keep putting on and taking off shade continually 
and keep the watering pans going all day. I 
grudge the cost of those operations, n inch the crickets 
have hitherto rendered necessary, but this season 
they have not appeared in their usual force, and 
with the exception of a few seedlings in the sheds, 
I have lost none on the prevent occasion. I have 
therefore put down 20,000 seeds outside for Novem- 
ber planting. 
Ou the larger trees the crop is just as much as 
can be packed on the branches, but ou last year's 
planting there is only a slight sprinkling. The growth 
of the plants continues satisfactory. Those planted in 
July and August, with three pairs of leaves, are now 
from ouo to two feet high, and are begmuiug to 
branch, but suckers aro very troublesome and have 
to bo regularly attended to, if a proper form .>i ivc 
is desiderated. 
During the month disease spots havo appeared on 
many plants hitherto free from ir, but, on the whole, 
it is not no bad as might be expected from the nu- 
merous centres of iuliction that exist on thu pro- 
perty, and many plants have more or le>8 of it with- 
out Buffering materially from it* presence ; and a^aiu, 
it has certainly bein shaken oil h\ many plants that 
had more or less of it some mouths ago. I plauttd 
out a few hundred cocoa plants in tho middle of 
tho mouth, and the white auto have already gone 
with one-third of them, nor do they routine their 
Attentions to very young plants, as they often do. 
