tm TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Feb. i, 1894. 
re'atiop*)iip fcetiween »wai»l8 an i plants exhibited by 
the " bii I's Jiorn thorn " and ante. This ehrub 
has boUow ihoins, ia lie inierior of which anta of 
a paruculfir luud take op their lodtjibg. Thev excavate 
and devour lotne ot tue toft tineues of the' plant ; 
anti in rpti^rn for the hoxpitality thus gaiietoualy 
givep, the ineects protect their host from tbe inroads 
of Jibe Ijeat-outter ants ; the latter it unchecked would 
divert the thpra of ita Jeaves, and so caase its death. 
Xhe t>ppki indeed, abounds in iuteretting m&tter,otiea 
solid in chatApter, (tut always weil told ; tbe only 
fault we h»Te to find with it is its shurtu>i6B ; it 
wt>uld hi* very easy to put up wi h a longer work 
iiom the eaiop pen. — Daili/ Chronicle. 
TflOUT FOR MYSORE AND COIMBATORE. 
7be Sjieokled beauties which give oneeucb deligtit- 
lul sjpprt with A liti^i fl^ tod on a pleasant Eummer's 
day Bt home are ;iow to be introduced to the olear 
oold streams of the Biligiri Eangau Hills. A batch 
of 1^,000 trout ova for Mr. Baaaolpb Morris are on 
th«ir way to Madrae in tbe " Golconda," and should 
arrive by tbe juiddle of January. A portion of itie 
eonBiguDjeut is intended for presentation to E. £1. 
tbe Maharajah of Mysore. Tbe young fry, when 
BIX monihd old, are to be put into the siream which 
runs down tbe gorge to tbe Cbamarajnagar Kbeddab. 
^'he.resiot the ttout (if sutlicient batch out) will 
bp divided between the rocky little river wbiih runs 
ior over A mile through the Attikan Estate, and 
ASOtber mountain giream that runs though the 
Kpllegal taluq to (be Cav(ry. — M. Mail. 
♦ 
VICTORIAN PRODUCTS FOR THE EAST. 
Mr, D. Wilson, the Victorian Government dairy 
. pxpert, is to make a tour through the East with a 
View to finding new maikets there for Victorian 
products, such as wines, canned fruits, butter, cheese 
and tinned meats, &c. The J)/e^ioJ(/'«e ^/y«<» prints a 
copy of the letter of instructions issued to Mr. Wilson 
toy the Minister of Agriculture in Melbourne as 
follows : — " 1. You will visit first Ceylon a country 
of 3,000,000 inhabitants, the European portion of 
which entirely live upon supplies imported from 
lEujrope, the greater portion of which we can supply. 
2. I'rom Colombo vou will proceed to Bombay, 
strike inland irom there, visiting tne principal dis- 
tributing centres of inland India, visit iJalcutta, 
tfaentie to Bombay by rail. I wish you to thoroughly 
test India, especially the military centres, because 
I have good reason to believe tnat in tinned meats, 
fraiti, wines and especially tinned butter, there is a 
largo trade to be done. 3. You will then visit Ran- 
goou, the capital of British Burma, which has a 
population of 7,000,000, (Rangoon has a population 
of 180,000, and is the port of supply for millions 
living inland). 4. You will then proceed to the 
Straits Bettlements, of which Singapore is the capital. 
This country is largely peopled by Europeans and 
belongs to the British, it has a large population of 
nearly a million and with Batavia, capital of Java, 
supplies Learly all the archipelago wiih imports 
supplied by English and United btates merchants. 
6. Batavia, the port of Java, will be i pur nest port 
tif call. Java is one of the oldest-established European 
settlements in Eastern Asia. It has a population 
of 23,00U,0u0. The import dues are very moderate, 
and the Queensland Royal Mail line from Australia 
to London calls there on the outward and home- 
ward voyages. There is steamer communication 
amongst nearly all the islands from Java. 6. From 
Java you may find it necessary to go to British North 
Borneo and some of the islands, returning to 
Singapore, tbenoe to Hongkontj, Ihu bu kufoniua trade 
witQ Other countries passes through Hongkoug, whicn 
it • freu port. I'o give an idea of ihe eiiteDt ot trade 
Carried on through ttiis poit, thtre wtre 17,000 vesstls 
entered and cleared in 1890, tne iujports mostly comii g 
from the United States, which couuiry, having a climate 
opposite 10 ours, will scarcely afieut our trade. As 
ia of oouiae well koowD, Hongkong is a British port. 
^OU to I^a^46»ki^ Kobe ind Yplsphamit, 
and will probably call at Macao, Canton, and Shanghai. 
It is most importaut jou «boold call at Tukobama, 
Kobe, Nagaaaki, tbe chief porta of Japan, aa Ibeir 
importu from tbe United Statea aojount to o*er 
4,000,000/. per year, and the im|jort doty iBeitr>-m«iy 
moiierate. From Mr. Marke, the Japanere Gooaul, I 
1 arn (und whom you ebould iulerview before leafii g) 
that Japau ia most anxiuus to culiivaie a trMe witQ 
the British Colo ie«, and i* •tM worth a apeci*! 
visit. The prest-nt i>t>ip(ii> ^ tervioe W"uld erife ut for 
a lime." No dtutt Mi. W^laou'o mintioa will b« pro- 
ductive of marh praotical good to tbe Colooy.— 
Coloniei and India. 
QUINI&'E RIGGING. 
Whenever a little epecula'ive movement oeenra in 
quinine, paragraphs "writing u\," the drug m-a- 
teriouely appear in jrurnala that in ordi-i»r) timet 
take 10 interesi wLatever in »,be chemical market. 
Hitherto the aooDyaioaa correcpoadeota wha precipi- 
tate these meai'agei have ehonn a piirtioiu r lifciug 
for the Financial .Ve« j and have gei erallj whimpered 
their confidences ii to tbe furry deptlis of that noble 
jou nars aural organ. Last week, Lowever, the Fririid 
01 Man wbo is eo acxiODS lo put bia f elloir-inoriaU' 
savings into a good thiug, got bold of tbe C>ty Editor 
of ihe Laihj Ntns, wiib tUe re-nlt that a queer lilUo 
pliragra^h appeared in Monda 's ieeue of that joupD»l, 
under the heaoiiiK of "A.. 1. fluenza Ma ket." 
" Since 'nflaenzahas become an itiSti'niiOD with ua, 
and now reguUrly paya au aunu»l visit, apncuUtion in 
quinine," aaya this Solomon, •• bis become both auund 
aud profitable. Aiiyoue baying it dariug ti.e aatama 
iij>.uit>e of the year ia usually able to lurnover bit pur- 
chastfl at a profit of fuily 20 ptr cent, during the 
winter. One of the.e little apnr a ii just now iu full 
svNiog, eacn ..ay witutsau.g a fraoiiooai riee, and irom 
8iJ., at wbich selhro were offering a lew montba 
ago, qumiue baa advauoed to 10|a. per oz. The gen- 
eral positioii of thii artioie, howuver, if maob soufler 
tban in former yearf, the number oi secand-bacd parrela 
having been to much r< duced ibat no f tbe kuaii>e-a 
may Le eaid to be almost wholly iu the haua» of 
t e fabrioanla (sic\) A lurih. r snaki .g Obt occurred 
last week, when tbe Lonaon agaul for ti e large Ger- 
Uiaa factories, alter OB.eusibie otftriug, b' came a 
buyer. Another point ia ibe staady h«rdei.i.ig in 
the value of cinchona bark, from abicb quiniue ii 
manuiactured." 
Alter this the paragraph proceedawith the familiar 
tale of the "grubbing up" ol the Ceylon cinchona, 
plantatious aLd the rett. It ia truly moving to think 
that, in spite of low profits and bad trades, there should 
be so mauy nameless phil nthrupitts in Mmciiig L»iie 
always rtady to ten.ler aisiniercated advice about tbe 
investment of savingt. 'I'ho person who "influenoed" 
this paragraph U commouly thougiit lo be the agent 
for one of the Geriuau qu nine-makers, but it u only 
fair to say that that geutlem^n denies the auit impeach* 
aent. But, whoever he be, he is no ooubt, invcating 
all Lis own spare cash in the drug. It may be well 
j.erheps, tj lemind the good people who take the 
Dail)/ yews investmont-iips that hitherto outsiders 
speoulfttiDg iu quinine have generally, as tbe Ameri- 
caLs eay, come out at the little end of the rn. 
There is a lady as well-known !" thequiniie maikel 
as is the distressed wiaow with the anver noons or 
the (xerman gentleman with ihe walout aideboard 
to readers of the Telegraph advertihenjCbts. Tbis lady 
once bought quinine at 10,6dan ounce, bec3^^e the 
read in her daiiy p«ptr that it wa< cheap at the 
price. Beriodio-lly bhe tries to " rea ise," and writes 
a circumstantial letter to SDme whol. ^ale drag-firm 
or auoiher asking what ihcy can get her for her 
luveslmeut. The reply is, gay, a shilling, pr ten- 
pence, whereupon the indignant female swoops down 
upon the diug-firm and, waving a Stores catalogue 
into the face of the prinoipal, detuands to know wuat 
he mea. a by ofieriug her tenpencs when the S ores 
catalogue gives the price at 3» 6a ? Xt is paragraphs 
such as that in the Daily News that are responsible for 
the existence of this type of invfstor.— CAe»i»*i mid 
