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TO THE 
"TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST" 
are reminded that with the June Number, already received by them, and the Index 
and Title-page now issued, the THIRTEENTH VOLUME (1893-94) is closed. 
SUBSCRIPTIONS are due payable in advance for 1893-94, at the following rates :— 
In Ceylon I Yearly ... R12 Europe, &c. i Y^^^^ 
or India | Half-yearly ... R8 ^ ' i Half-yearly 15s. 
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Covers for binding the Thirteenth Volume, July 1893 to June 1894 (860 pages) 
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WHAT IS THOUGHT OF 
THE "TROPICAL AGRIGULTURIST." 
A gentleman resident in the Central Province, who has as good opportnnities of knowing what is 
of benefit to planters as anyone we know, sent us the following explicit testimony to the value of the 
" t.a:' :— 
" Since its commencement, I have regularly seen and perused the Tropical Agriculturist. There 
can be but one opinion that its scope and object are highly important, and that it supplies a distinct 
desideratum, which it is to the interest of every estate proprietor to have available in the bungalow for 
the use of his locum tenens, or superintendent. As a magazine it provides interesting and instructive fr.-sh 
literature at intervals deprived, as most in Ceylon are, of easy access to libraries; and as yeata go by 
will growingly b come 'The Ceylon Encyclopesdia ' with reference to agricultural operations. Viewing estate 
property as practically a perraaneut investment to any proprietor, the trifling charge of Bl2 per annum — 
a rupee a month — is certainly of no account, provided the separate numbers are kept, and bound together 
yearly as a book of reference, for the benefit of the manager and his successors. In that light, as the 
property of an estate to be handed over just as much as its office furniture, few proprietors would probably 
refuse to authorize its being taken and tiled regularly (if the periodical was brought under their notice), 
more especially as on looking over the most recent volume one cannot fail to see how muchj valuable 
information on ' Tea ' has been collated. In the belief that ' Tea ' vsill restore prosperity to Ceylon, 
and that plantation property is a good investment for capitalists, such should not omit the office and 
connected equipment so advisable on a 1 'pucka' estates, a part of which should be the Tropical Agricul- 
turist. I find I have gone on writing, but as I am getting the numbers for the past year ready to be 
bound, the volume is before me." 
The Value op The " T.A." to Ceylon Estate Owners. — A 'planting correspondent « wrote some 
time ago : — " I think proprietors should supply every tea estate with the T.A. The', information in it with 
regard to everything in connection with tea, &c., is invaluable : it wouldjpay its] value over and over again. 
Owners of estates should liot leave it to hard-up superintendents to take it in," 
