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THE TROPICAL 
AGRiCULTURlST. | August i, 1893. 
VARIOUS AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 
Bbazilian Coffee. — la the New York Herald's 
account of the Agricultural Building at the Chicago 
Exhibition the following occurred : — Brazil, now a 
sieter republic, Eende the entire national display 
from laet year's exhibition at Rio Janeiro. Coffee 
is naturally the staple of the exhibit, and it will be 
in evidence from the berry to the liquid in the 
breakfast cup. The entire prooeas of its production 
from first to last will be elaborately illustrated, and 
a series of samples will show the different varieties. 
It will be the most complete showing Brazil has 
ever made. 
Thb Enolisb CoviTBE Tbaub thinks that some 
of the vendors of the " fioest French coUee" and 
other similar compounds of chicory are not too par- 
ticular, but we {Produce Markets Review) think^that 
even they will be amused at the unblushing impu- 
dence and absence of any moral misgiving shown in 
the following copy of an actual letter recently received 
in America : — " We have mailed you samples of 
steamed, cooked, and prepared peas, and Germanian 
coffee, which we trust you will not oast in the waste- 
basket without inspection. If you sell ground coffee 
we confidently state that you are not in it. Where 
are we now at? Test these goods, and you will find 
your trade and bank account increased by their use. 
Write us, and we will give you special prices accord- 
ing to quantity. Be sure to draw and test these 
goods; you will find you have struck a bonanza. 
" AUSTBALIAN AGMCCLTCnAL iNDUSTBTEf! " are 
most favourably reported on by Miss Shaw, (be 
London Times' Special Correspondent, whose letters 
have recently been attracting a great deal of attention. 
Her latest letter published about a month ago and 
from which we extract on our last page, cannot 
fail to have an influence in restoring confidence 
in Victoria, where f small farming" especially is 
rapidly advancing. The great want here, as in 
every one of the Southern Colonies, is of course 
described as "population" ; but then the population 
to benefit the community as well as themselves 
out there, must be of the right sort — willing to 
work in the country rather than lounge about the 
towns. In this connection, attention may be called 
to " the Agricultural Paradox '' as discussed by the 
Australasian elsewhere. 
Thk Obange Tkadb or Jaffa.— Jaffa Orangee, 
which have appeared in the English markets of 
late in increasing quantities, seem to have become 
Buoh an important item of export in the trade 
returns of Jerusalem, that a new system of steam 
oommunication has been establiehed for their 
rapid transit tolhis country. This was established 
last autumn, with the object of shipping the Granges 
direct to Liverpool. According to the report of 
Mr. Consul Dickson on the trade and commerce 
of Palestine for the year 1892, one firm sent on 
an average a steamer every ten days from the 
commencement of the Orange crop, each vessel 
loading from 15,000 to 20,000 boxes at a time, the 
freight varying from Is 8d to 3s or 6s per box. 
This system of conveying Orangea direct to the 
United Kingdom has not only proved a profitable 
business to the steamship companies, but great 
service has been rendered to the shippers, as the 
fruit reaches its destination in a shorter time and 
in better condition than if sent via Egypt. In 
former years the Oranges were forwarded to Port 
Said in the coasting steamers, and then transhipped 
in vessels sailing for the United Kingdom, but by 
this method much damage was occasioned as well 
BB delay. Nearly three-fifths of the whole Orange 
orop of Jaffa is now shipped to Liverpool, the 
rest .being exported, for the most part to Anstria 
fni Egypt,— Gfwf/enera' Chronidei 
Oacao Cultivation ii extending in Eist J*va we 
read in a .S'raiu paper; butio oertaiD di.tirioti the 
iohaliitaLts till cot le&nfs laud suitable for itie purpoM 
except at exborbitaot ra*«e. Tlie Gort-rnaaeat arc 
Dot iDoliiied to lease out Crown lacd loribia lioe ol 
cultivation io tbat Deighbonrhood, b«rcauBe the ttill 
available area maat be retetvei for the u e of the 
people. — Straits Times. 
Brazil is waiting (says I'hr fndvi-Ruhher 
Journal) with open arms to welcome at leat a 
million imjiiigrants. Unless more labour can be 
procured the rubber and all oiher crops wilt iiufler. 
Nevertheless we do not advise anycne to rush of 
without full enquiries as to cost of living, 6co. 
When Amazonia separates itself from Brazil, the 
case will be different. 
Tea in Gbbuaht. — A Calcutta paper calls atten- 
tion to Germany as a n«w market for Indiaa 
tea, and remarks:— "If Indian tea ia only pushed 
with skill and energy it may have a great future 
before it in the fatherland. Only let us b«ware 
tbat Ceylon does not get the ttart." The advice 
is well-meant, but comes a little latr, says the 
Madras I'imes. — Why this jealousy of Ceylon we 
a»k ? What both India ana Ceylon have to do is 
to fight China. 
NoRTB Matalb "Cocoa" — aelliog up to ISli 
per cwt. No wonder though, as we learn from 
Mr. D. Edwards, tlie Ceylon Land and Produce 
'jO.. already the owners of a considerable extent 
under the chocolate plant, should have lately been 
freely extending its cultivation. We wish Mr. 
Edwards, who is now the sole representative of 
the Company in Ceylon, all suooess in his further 
development of this very desirable branch of 
cultivation. In tea, the Company has also some 
very valuable propertien ; but the Chairman, Mr. 
Wilson, returned home after his recent visit to 
the island, greatly strengthened in bis belief, in 
the future of " Ceyloa Cocoa." 
The " Ratnapura " Tea District— is coming 
to the front. Mr. Dunbar's fine property, 
part of which touches the gravets of the 
town, ia doing so well that it is expected 
100.000 lb. of made tea will be got from the 200 
acres cultivated (some of it young) during the 
coming year. Fifty additional aTes are to be 
planted. There is aluo to be a new clearing on 
tbu adjacent property, a share of which Mr. Hardie 
has just sold to the Messrs Lament. It is quite 
cheering to hear of the old veteran, Mr. W. B. 
Lament acting the tea-wattie superintendent, and 
doing rough woik and long walking trips too, ai 
if he had not borne the beat and burden of 
planting life for over the half oentuiy. We trust 
he and his son and their partner will be very 
successful in this new venture. 
" Some Economic Plant of " Sieeea Leoke" 
is the heading of a concise paper in the Phar- 
maceutical Journal being an abstract from a Colonial 
Report by O. F. Sooit Elliott and we are re> 
publishing it in the " TA." A wild native bush coffee 
{coffee stenophylla) is described which grows freely, 
yields as much as Liberian and in the opinion of 
some people, has a superior flavour. The onlliva- 
tion of " Liberian " is said to be extremely 
profitable in the Sierra Leone district. So with 
" Kola " which grows freely (especialiy on dis- 
integrated gceies or laterite) from sea-level to 
fully over 3,000 feet, begins to bear in 7 years 
and each tree yields £3 to £4 per annum! Cooonat 
palms (so spelt by Mr. Elliott) long establisfaed" 
are said to bear 12 dozen nuts a year; there iff' 
one big plantation in full bearing 10 years old btit ~ 
troubled by bttetlee. 
