THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST, [Sept. i, 1893. 
PLANTING IN CENTRAL AMERICA 
AND MEXICO. 
An ex.Ceyloa planter writes :— " That was a 
vary interesting letter of Forsyth's about ooSee 
planting in Guatemala and Mesioo, it aboold 
tempt many of our young oapitalists to try 
their luok (here. Still these Bepublioe are not 
over safe places with their frequent inearreetiona ; 
there is one on now in Nioaragoa." 
LONDON REPOETS ON TfiAVANCOEE 
CEYLON PRODUCE. 
TRAVAIL CORE TEA. 
(From Patry & Pa$teur, Limited, July 6th, 1893 ) 
Venture waa the only eatate in sale thia week, and 
aold ai ander. 
Hi 
Venture 7d 6}d 5jd 
C7 <3 
5id 154ohe8. 6^ 
OINOHONA REPORT. 
(From Chemitt and Druggist.) 
LondoD, June, 29th. 
OiNOHONi.. — The fortnightly bark-»uotion« this week 
were of very small extent, six caUlogoea coraprising 
the whole of the lopply which amounted to: — 
Packages. PackaKea. 
Oeylon cinchona 715 of, which 5^1 were aoM 
Bast Indian clachona 400 „ 203 ,, 
Javan cinchona 44 ,, 44 „ 
9. Amerioan cinchona 46 ,, 46 ,, 
1,206 81 > 
The aasortment of bark waa fairly eatisfactory one 
ooDsideriug ths email quantity offered, the total eapply 
repreaenting about 104,000 oz. {2,900 kilos) sulphate of 
quinine, or an average of, say, 2"3 per cent. The Indian 
barks included about 200 bales of old stock, imported 
in I8S6 and 1887. For most of these OBly a fraction of 
Id per lb. waa obtainable, aud about one-half waa 
bought in. offers of |d per lb. being lefuaed for low 
mixed chips. There were a few parcels of good renewed 
red and grey shavings from Oeylon, but the Indian barks 
were very poor. Yellow bark wag scarcely shown at all. 
The tone throughout the auotiona was quiet, but there 
w»8 no further decline on the low rates of ths last pre- 
ceding sales, and the unit remains upon an average from 
Il-I6ths d. to id per lb. 
The following are the approximate quantities purchased 
by the principal buyers •■— 
Lb. 
Agents for the Mannheim and Amsterdam works ... 49,630 
Agents for the Auerbach works ... ... 83,690 
Agents for the Frankfort o/M and Stuttgart works 33,030 
Agents for the Brunswick works ... ... 91,989 
Agents for the American and Italian works ... 31,139 
Agents for the Paris works ... ... 13,780 
Messrs. Howards & Sons ... ... ... 3,970 
Sundry druggists . . ... ... ... 31,783 
Total quantity of bark sold 
Bought in or withdrawn 
175,000 
105,616 
Total quantity offered ... ... 381,616 
South AMEniOAN Cinchona.— A reoently-imported par- 
cel of 46 bales cultivated Bolivian Oaliaaya in good but 
somewhat irrsgulor quills so.d at 4jd par lb. for sound, and 
at 3i4. to 4d per lb, for country damaged bark. 
The fulloniiig are the exports of cinchona from Oeylon 
during the periods between January 1st and June 5th: — 
1893, ;J,0»9,831 lb.; 189^, 3,672,816 lb.; 1891, 3,117,811 lb. ; 
1890, 3,890,903 lb. 
The exDorta of oinohonafrom Java during the ten months 
from July let to April 30th ore given aa follows — 
1692-93 18B1-93 1890-91 1888-90 1883-89 
Amster- Amater- Amster- Amsler- Amster- 
dam lb. dam lb. dam lb. dam lb. dam lb. 
Government 
plantation 533,031 338,877 484.087 448,«40 728,491 
Private plan- 
tations.. . .5,0 l,r99 6,110,017 6,718,677 3,709,618 3.989,780 
Totals., 6,114,633 6,676.691 6,202.684 4,166,583 3,713,871 
THE CINCHONA SUPPLIES. 
A telegrapbio report from Java atatea that the 
shipments ot cinobona bark from that island daring 
the month of Jane reaohed the unusually Urge figura 
of 90U,000 Amsterdam lb. Thia brings up the total 
for the Java season l8y2-3 (July Isl to Juue 30tb) 
to 7,900,000 Amsterdam lb., which ia the b<avie«t 
crop on record. Add to this that the abipmeuia fcr 
the first half ot the presDOt year amuutjted to 4,000,000 
Amsterdam lb., an unpreoedented figure fur that 
period, and that the average quality of the bark ia 
ateadily, if etowly, improving, and it will be aeeo 
that the sudden decline of 26 per cent at l«il week's 
public sales in Amsterdam waa by no means aujuati- 
fied. The unit value fur Java bark is at present 
equal to only ^d. per lb., Loudon terms aud it is 
possible that this drop may have the effect of driviug 
up to some extent the enormous flow of the bark 
supplies from Java. The Oeylon abipmeots ate gra- 
dually dvrindling, but the deficit from tbat /slaod 
does not balance the exoeaa of the Jav« ejpurta. 
Our London stock on July lit ia returned at 37,944 
bilea only, against 45,310 in 1892, and 53,388 in 1891. 
— Chemist and JJruggtit. 
THE MARKET FOR CEYLON TEA IX 
AU.STRAL1A. 
li is an encouraging ooiocidenoe that within a 
few daya of the appearance of our Btrong appeal 
to the Tea Fund Committee to make one more 
Bpeoial effort in Auetralia, we should receive a 
letter from a well-known ez-Rangalla planter and 
ex-AuBtralian Colonist, urging the eame thing on 
the atten'.ion ot Ceylon Tea Plaotere. Last mail 
brought (along with a oontribution on another 
subject) a private letter from " Cosmopolite " who 
knows the back-countries of both Victoria and 
New Zealand so well, and here ie what he says : 
— " I see W. A, T. has struck the saTie idea as 
I have, about exploiting tea in Australia, namely 
getting it op to the stations direct. Let t>u 
squatters and the station hands once get a tastt 
for it (onblehded) and they are the real tta- 
drinkert of Auttralia." This is confirmed — it will 
be remembered — by the Argus annual tea 
report which distinctly stated that Cey- 
lon and Indian tea had conquered the big 
towns, bat was comparatively unknown in the 
country districts of Australia. There is here 
therefore, very special encouragement — in fact an 
argent call— on the Tea Fund Committee to make 
an effort to place pare Ceylon tea before the 
squatters and their employes, country farmers 
and villagers. Unfortunately both "W. A. T." 
and "Capricorn'' — planters in Australia — who hare 
been writing to us about this work, will not be 
available to act aa agents, as they are both returning 
to the island shortly ; but we know ot a third and 
most reliable Oeylon planter, who is going to New 
Zealand by the end of the year and who would be 
very glad to act as Agent of our Tea Fund and 
to lecture and show slides all through the provincial 
towns aud villages while distributing tea samplej 
in likely quarters. Such an opportunity should 
not be lost — There is the utmost enoouragemeut 
in the way the exports from India and Ceylon 
are uow increasing to Australia, to go in and 
conquer the untouched field pointed out to ua by 
Tea authorities in the Melbourne press as well 
as by W. A.T., A. H.D. and "Capricorn" (C. M. H.); 
and iVIr. James Sinclair supports the movement 
in a letter elsewhere which, besides, pleads that 
Russia and America should not be forgotten, 
as of course they will not. Why we urge Aus- 
tralia for immediate attention is that the pear 
there seems ripe to fall into our lap with a very litlte 
additional exertion. The comparative figarea for 
