Nov. I, 1893.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTUEIST. 
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the largest Tea Factories in the country with 
estimates of tha total quantity of tea prepared in 
twelvemonths. We adopted for our Handbook 
Review, 500,000 lb. as a limit, and the result of 
our inquiry gave ua the following big Ceylon Tea 
Factories with appcoxima'^e quantity o( tea made 
io each per annum : — 
Proprietors. 
Name- 
District. 
Hantaae 
MakiDf; 
about lb. 
New F4ra> Hantaae Ceylon Land & Prod 
deuiya Oo. ..,800,000 
Mariawatte Kadugan- Oeylon Tei Plantn- 
n*wa tions Co. .. 750,000 
Do. do. New Factory ...150,000 
WalUha Dimbnla Ceylon Tea Planta- 
tions Co. ...700,000 
C»roIins L.Dikoya Csroliua Tea Oo. ...fi'inooo 
Diyagama Dimbula New Dimbula Co., L I ...0 i.K 0 
Gallsha Hnotane Ohas. Strf»ohan & Co...ooU,uOO 
Of the larger plantations m Ceylon, the list as now 
oompilpd taking 750 acres as the minimum limit 
runs as follows, only that it must be rempmbered 
the area in some oasea includes coffee and ciachona 
as well SB tea : — 
Culti- 
Name. 
Pb IPEIETOBS. 
vated 
Extent. 
Diagama 
New Dimbula Co., Ld. . . 
2,334 
Medd( cambcra ... 
Eastern Produce & Estates 
Co., Ld. 
2 275 
Dambetanne Oronp 
T. J. Lipton 
1,681 
Hope 
Eastern Produce & Estates 
Oo.,Ld. 
1,676 
Spring Valley 
Spring Valley Co., Ld. . . 
1,644 
Glen Alpine 
Ouvah CoflFee Co., fid. 
1,431 
Pallekelly 
S. F. Somes 
1,326 
NoitU Matale 
Ceylon L'kad & Produce 
Co., L I. 
1,192 
Rolh'ohild 
Eastern Proiuce & Esta'es 
Co., Ld. 
1,163 
Wedthall Group ... 
Sir Q. H. D. Elphinstone 
Bart. 
' 1,075 
Great Western and 
Soilpa 
Oonakelle Group. .. 
Elkadaa Group ... 
Wanarajah ard 
IVIanikwiit*e 
Lebanon Group ... 
DansinaQe 
R^Kalle aijd Hal- 
gran >ya 
Keliiu Group 
Lj Villon Group .. 
Rangbodda includ- 
ii^g Bluefields ... 
Icgacui^alla and 
Beruwala 
Uva 
Wattefjoda 
Abbok8lbi|,(h 
Kepitif^U'Ia 
Rajftwi I rjpi er 
a.id L vor 
Domodera Group... 
N*}ibedde 
Great Western Tea Co. of 
Ce>lon . . 1,067 
Heirs of Col. J. B. Dawaon 
& G. S. Dnff .. 1,065 
J. B. MaoBrayne, R Ki'igi 
J. M. Msitland-Kirwau, 
W. F. Courthopp, F. G. 
Ambrose, A. M. Hurst.. 1,042 
Wanarajih Tea Oo. .. 1,024 
T. Dickson, Sr., and Mrs. 
Dickson .. 1,016 
Messrs. Arbutbnot and 
AuBtruther . . 949 
Chae. E. Strachan . . 947 
Keilie Tea Plantaiion Co. 939 
Oey'oo and Oriental Estates 
Co.,Ld. ., 933 
Q.S.Duff .. 928 
Eastern Produce & E-ta'es 
Oo.,Ld. .. 925 
Colombo Coon. Co., Ld.. 887 
OoDKolidated Eslatea Co., 
Limicttd .. 8S2 
Abbutsioigb Tea K>tate 
Co., LI. .. 873 
A. J. &R.J.FRrquhardon. . 860 
A C. P:-e. M. h. Hidden 
and M. H. i'iri« , . 856 
H. O. H sca- n, P. F. 
H- 'n , T G. Crow turl 
li. li. (JaODrue . . 850 
a. S. Dutf sod Uulonel H. 
Dawson .. 813 
Hunasgeriya .. Hunasgeriya Tea Oo.,Ld. . 
Gallamoodena includ- 
ing Mousagalb ... Ucited Planters of Ceylon 
Co., Ld. 
Norwood ... Eaetetn Produce and Estates 
Co.,Ld. 
Tangakellie and 
Begelly 
Vellai Oya 
Mount Veraon ... 
Gampaba 
Kirkoswald 
Matale West inolud 
ing Aegeria 
Ceylon Tea Plantation Oo., 
Limited 
Eastern Produce & Estates 
Co., Ld. 
A. C. White 
Matbeson & Co. . . 
C. and A. Fetherstonhangb 
839 
833 
820 
818 
788 
775 
769 
768 
Eastern Produce and Estates 
Oo.,Ld. 
Gammadua Group.. New Ceylon Plant, Co., Ld. 
~ ■ • ' O. B. Estates Co., Ld. ., 
R. 8., R. and Major E L. 
Fraser . , 
A . Gibson . . 
Lady De Soysa, ezeoutriz 
of C. H. De Soysa 
Craigie Lea 
Kandenewera 
Meeriabedde 
Charley Valley 
767 
765 
756 
755 
753 
750 
[We include " groups " where worked through one 
factory.]] 
Finally we may repeat a list, representing " the 
business agency of plantations," which has ap- 
peared in connection with our I ireotory for many 
years and which has lately been corrected as far 
as was possible. This givea a list of all Estate 
Agenta representing from about 1,000 acres up- 
wards, although such representation in many oasea 
may mean merely the shipping of the tea, while 
in others it means the financing and transaction 
of all business in oonneotion with, if not the 
responsible management of, the plantations. In 
most oaaes again, " Colombo Agency " in this 
" tea " era is a very different and less important 
matter than waa that of " coffee," the chief pre- 
paration of the latter being attended to at the 
stores of the Colombo Agenta, With this expla- 
natory introduction we give the following list : — 
[" P. p." stands for Partly Proprietary, "S. p." for 
Small PortioQ Proprietary ; " 0. p." for Chiefly Pro- 
pretary; "A. p." for All Proprietary; " C. S. A." 
Chiiefly Shipping Agents.] 
Name of Firm. 
Geo. Stensrt & Co.* 
Eastern Produce & Estates Oo.t 
J. M. Robertson & Co. ... 
Bosanqaet & Oo. 
Whittall & Oo. 
Oulombo Commercial Co., Ld. 
Buchaoan, Fcazer & Co.... 
Ceylon Tea Plantation Co. (G. A. 
Talbot) 
Boastiad Bros. 
Charles Strachan & Co. ... 
Cum'ierVatch & Co. 
Oriental Bank B«tftteB Co., Ld. 
B«ker & Hall 
M»ctcwi)cid & Co. 
D. Bdwrrds & Co. 
Bois Uiotbers & Co. 
J. P. Green & Co. 
Skriuo & Cj. 
B nliu.^ ii Bremner 
Carson k io. :„ 
.(0. p.) 
.(P. p.) 
.(S. p.) 
.(S p.) 
o « "So 
o a ^ .S, e> 
128 39,083 
46 20,039 
46 18,712 
81 17,862 
73 16,089 
43 12,! ~ 
..(O.S.A.) 38 11,515 
.(P. p.) 
.(0. p.) 
.(O. p.) 
.(S.p.) 
.(A. p.) 
28 
31 
30 
35 
18 
.(C.S.A.) 23 
.(P. p.) 
,.(S.p.) 
•(C. p.) 
.(P. p.) 
•(O. p.) 
9,641 
9,561 
8,882 
8,433 
8,187 
7,303 
0.955 
5,500 
4,314 
4,399 
4,103 
4,144 
3,963 
* Also Agents for coconut or ciniiamnn pror'erties. 
fTh. R P. & E. Co own 19 propertie-, omip'isin'; 
9,723 aorea in tea. Its Ae;enay estates nnmiier 20 
iiiclndiny those of the Ceylon & Ori»nt.<l E-tites C". L I. 
Ti e Oompsny are also Shipping Agents for O-'vlon Tea 
Plnntitions C >. Ltd., The Soottish Oeyion I'm Co., 
Ltd., &c., also are Cejlgn Agents ot the Orient 
Co., Ltd. 
