THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Dec. i, 189 j. 
Bedford, Got 18th. 
J. J. Grinrnton Esq , Chiosgo. Deak Sir,— I eee 
by the Ceylon Observer (cutting encloBtd) that the 
Tea Fund have only been able to grant you £1,000 
out of the £2,500 which you require to et&rt the 
store in Chicago. If you will Bubacribe £500, I will 
give a like turn, and I feel sure that will 
make up the bilance of the £2,500. What I pro- 
pose is that we form ouraelves into a Limittd 
Company and start work at once, as there is 
no time to be lost, and I tbink we may 
fairly claim an aannal grant from the Tea Faud, 
should we have a loss on our venture; bat the 
interests of Ceylon generally arc so much at btake 
that we must risk somethinK. und it is of vital im- 
portance that you should put matters in training 
before you leave. The Tea Planters' C >mpany, or 
some other Company with a lar^c capital could take 
over our Company afterwards. — Yours fsithfuUy, 
A. E. WKIGHT. 
Since writing tbi^ letter I have met Mr. Eilmuod 
Walker, of Messrs. Walker & Sons, Colombo, and read 
him this letter and ho is wi ling to take £100 iu 
shares in our Company and allow you to ntehis Dame; 
also information of same, if necessary on the terms 
Of (hie letter. A. E. W. 
VARIOUS AGRICULTUKAL NOTES. 
To Clean Wateh-bottles.— Half fill the bottles 
vith tea leaves and a little water, and then add 
a spoonful of common vinegar ; shake all thoroughly, 
tbea empty, and riuse well with cold water. 
A Tba Fi^nieb writes from the Nilgiria that 
something should be done to encourage settlement 
there as there is no better or healthier 
spot in India. Not a few mothers will tell you 
that they have had no ocaasion to oall in a dcctor 
onoe in the whole season for anyoue of their 3 
or 4 " dots " ; while as to the ohemist's bill, that 
has amounted to the price of a bottle of oastor- 
oil and a dose or two of paregoric. Another en- 
thusiast says " Tea is king,"— Indiari Planters' 
Gazette. 
Coffee in Brazil. — Here is a cbaracteristio 
and sigaificant advertisement from the i^to News : — 
COFFEE COLTURB 
In Brazil pays better than any other agricultural 
work. Small farms of twenty to one hundred acres 
each are offered in exchange for manual labor. 
NINETV THOUSAND ACRES 
of the first quality terra ro^a cofiee lands in the 
county of Araraqaara, on the Jaoare river, are to be 
had for the cnltivation of them in co£tee, a half in 
tereat in each farm given to the farmers who will 
ivork them. Address : 
THE FABMEES' COFFEE LAND AGENCY 
Una Direita No. 2 Sao Panlo,BraziI. 
The " Indian Fohestee," No. 11— for November, 
has the followiog contents : — 
I. Original Articles and Translations. — A Tour in 
Jaunsar, No. 5, fuel Supply Works in Naini Tsl, 
Forest Administration in Ondh by O. C , Fire Pro- 
tection in the Landes Gaecony, Tour of the 
Coopera Hill Students in Germany by E. P. S.; 
II. Correspondence. — A ' Burea de Recherches', 
Letterfrom 'Border,' Inspection Note oa Coimbatore 
Forests, Letter from H. B. Brayant, Eucalyptus 
in Hoshiarpur, Letter from ' T,' Forest Fires in 
America and India, Letter from R. M., CoTipound 
ing Offences in the C. P. Letter from B. Ribbentrop ; 
IlT. Official Papers and Intelligence. — The new 
Sehra Dun Forest School Rules. IV. Reviews. 
The Madras Forest Report for 1891-92, Report on 
Forest Administration ia Jepore State for 1892 ; 
V. Shikar and Travel. — Forest School Sports at 
Vehra Dun. VI. Extracts, Notes and Queries.— The 
Resin of Ooniferg, Pice Packets of Quinine ; 
VI I. Timber and Produce Trade. — Statement of 
average selling rates in the North-Western Pro 
vinoes for 30th September 1893, Churchill and Sim's 
Crcular October ,5th 1893, Matketi Rentes of froducei 
' l^aiwopore ftm Oarr«nt, 
The Lakea Plamatioks Co., Lxn— although 
it has bad to pass through the fire of sffliotion 
like all old Coffee Plantation C mpanits— ie rapidly 
recovering ground as the report on page 414 ehowa and 
promises well for the future with its caoao and 
cofiee as well as lar^e extent of jouDg tea. 
Planteus who combine tea and coffee muit now 
be having their work cut out, for with crops in full 
swing and the heavy flasbca after the late rain and 
present sun, will have as much on their baods %» 
they can attend to. The weather of the la«t few 
days muit Lc a booo to coifee planters, whose bar- 
bacues and tables must k>« fairly full after the niny 
weather of the lael few days.— .ViVj/jVi .Vt(/^. 
To Tell tuf. Aob of Eggs. — Dissolve two ocnee* 
of aalt io a pint of water. Wbrn a fresh laid rg| 
is plaoQd in the solution, it will deaoend to the 
bottom of the vessel, while ona that has been 
laid cn the day previoos will not qai'c reaili 
the bottom. If the egg be three dkys old, it will 
swim in the liquid, and if it is more than three duya 
old it will float on the surface and project at>c\e 
the latter more and more in proportion as it is older. 
CooBo, Nov. IT. — We have bad some heavy rain 
here receotly which hai done conti'lerable damage 
especially in the bamboo by way of knock iog crop 
off the trees and causing the bursting of pnlping 
tanks, bunds &o , which must have been very ioeoo- 
venient aa.tbey are in the full awing of the crop down 
there. Up here the rain was not quite so heavy and 
besides that there was not mu«h ripe crop, except 
in 3 or 4 cases, 1<t damage to reaall Irom the 
dropping of crop; but I noticed that trees which 
had lost a considerable portion of their leaves, bad 
dropped a lot of green berries. These are being 
gathered up. Most of oa this side have began tiy- 
picking, but in the 3 or 4 oases referred to abore 
contract pioking at 3 atinaa per cherry box will be 
begun on Monday next here. 
"The Plantek: Old Style and New" is 
the heading of an amusing sketch descriptive of 
the latter which we reprojuce on page 414 
from the Nilgiri Sctrs. The old conditions of 
planting life have disappeared from Southern India, 
it eeems, quite as much as from Ceylon. An old 
planter writing to us by this mail asks that the 
younger knights of the tea-bush with all the con- 
veniences of roads, railways, churches, hospitals, 
&c., lie, should just think now and then of the 
pioneers who had none of these comforts and of 
those who bad the building of them as time rolled 
on. How even Sir Hercules Robinson would open 
his eyes were he now to see the " Wilderness of 
the Peak," which Major Skinner induced him to 
open with the first road, ever sent tfarougb it ! 
The Chicago-Ceylon-Tea-Store.— We call 
attention to the letter of our old friend, Mr. A. 
E. Wright, on page 409. It Ehowed public 
spirit as well as enterprise in Mr. Wright to 
come forward as he did. We have yet to learn 
on what basis exactly Mr. Grinlinton has gone to 
work ; for as Mr. Wright writes to us in a sepa- 
rate letter, — 
" I was very much impressed with our Com- 
missioner's work at Cbioago, and do not think that 
our Company is at all likely to be a financial failure 
especially with the Tea Fund grant to help us start, 
but of course the capital is far too small, and if 
you could induce others to augment it all the 
better." 
" It is of course possible that Mr. Grinlinton may 
think some other moddus operandi will be more to 
the interests of Ceylon, in which case it, of course 
falls to the ground, but he at all events now baa 
something to work upon." 
Mr. and, Mrs. Wright both enjoyed their American 
visit very greatly ; they have now settled at Bedford 
which is fast representing quite a little colony ol 
Qeylon regidents, 
