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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Feb. i, 1894. 
STAPLE EXPOETS PEOM CEYLON FOR TEN 
YEAES 1884-93 AND DISTRIBUTION FOE 
TWO YEAES. 
Through the courtesy of the Secretary of the 
Chamber of Concmerce in Bfnding us copies 
of the annual tables compiled in his office, we 
are enabled to offer 8ome remarks on the result?. 
Of course it will be remembered that in the 
Chamber's return, only Exports for the two 
porta of Colombo and Galle are taken 
into account ; but as a matter of fact from these 
alone are our prinoipal products sent across the 
seaa. At the same time there will always be a 
difference between the Customs' and the Chamber's 
returns for the calendar years, for this reasoo. 
The Customs enters in its Export return every ship, 
ment as it passes on board vessels in the harbour 
and on Slst December may have in its total a good 
deal of produce that has not left our harbour ; while 
the Chamber of Commerce makes no entry in its 
Export return until the vessel has cleared and left 
our shores. We published the total of our chief 
Exports tor 1893 according to the Customs' figures 
on the 9th iost. and it will be interestiog here to 
compare the same with the Exports as given by 
the Chamber of Commerce, thus : — 
Staple Exports from Oeijlon during 1893. 
Chamber of 
Commerce. Customs. Difference. 
Tea lb.... 84,406,061 81,319,035 3,087,029 
Coffee cwt. 55,190 55,417 227 
30,658 29.741 917 
fioant. But we may class all our tea cuBtomeri 
together more fully as follows : — 
lt)92. 1893. 
Cocoa cwt. 
Cinchona 
Bark lb. 
3,440,715 1.30,610 
3,571,325 
It will thus be seen ibat in each case the Cu -atoms' 
returns are below those compiled by the Chamber, 
save in respect of coffee. The previous year'd com- 
parisons were altogether the other way ; and no 
doubt the Cusioms credited to 1892 shipments 
which the Chamber brings inio 1893. The difference 
is but triflmg in respect of coffee and cinchona, 
nor in Cficoa is it very appreciable. But a difference 
of 3,087,029 lb. in respect of tea is mora serious. 
We have now to note especially that while 
between the extremes of the decade, tea has risen 
from 2,403,095 to 84,406 064 lb , we would have 
a pretty tqual rate of great annual progress save 
for the small increase in 1892 over lb91 of less 
than three millions lb. But if the return of 
68,274,420 lb. for 1891 be treated as quite ex- 
ceptional — as, in fact, ten million lb. above what 
it ought to have been, — then we get a fairly 
regular outturn rising since 1888 by 10 to 12 
million lb. annually until between 1891 and 1893 
we have a rise of 16 million lb. or 8 milliors per 
annum. We must, of course, await the estimate 
of the Planters' Association before referring to the 
probable outturn for 1894 ; but we believe the 
general current of opinion points to a figure 
approximating to 89 or 90 million lb. (with not 
more we trust than 76 or 77 mihion lb. to go to 
the United Kingdom) as the anticipated official | 
estimate for the present year. | 
The United Kingdom has taken nearly 11, out of 
the 13 million lb. of inoreaEe l shipments of our tea '■■ 
last year; Australasia (not ''Australia" as the 
Chamber's table has it, for the latter term does | 
not properly include ^ew Zealand) is our next 
best customer taking very nearly all the balance 
(about 2 million lb.) of the increase ; and lodia 
— whose tea Ceylon shuts out by an import dutj' — 
stands third in order of our customers. Then c^mes | 
a great int-rval before we get to Germany; I 
" Cbin^ " (what roes this mean?— C' ylon tea sent | 
to blend) ?; Africa (which beats America ! ); 
America and Mauritius. The rest of our cus- 
tomers taking much below 100,000 lb. are insigni- 
United Kingdom 
Ao^tbalasia 
INDIA 
ONTINENT OF EdBOPE 
China" 
Cfbica ... 
Amedica... 
Mai bITIDJ 
Malta ... 
SlNGAPORK 
.64.815,075 
.. 5,166,154 
528,037 
255,458 
103,98(j 
64,728 
110,079 
89,617 
18.326 
11,381 
75.500,077 
6.968,956 
964,104 
387. lU 
188,(199 
114,857 
112,440 
110.079 
38, J 35 
21,906 
Inoreate. 
lb. 
10,6H5,002 
l,802,8f»2 
436,067 
131,653 
84,111 
2 361 
20,462 
20,109 
10.525 
Totil ...71.153,657 84,406.064 13,252,407 
We trust that this is tbe last bunnal return in 
which *' America," even for direct ebipments, will 
mt'ke BO poor a show. 
The large increase in the export of " cocoa" ; 
the immense tumble-duwo in cinchona bark, 
and the slight increases in respect of both ccffee 
and cardamoms are notable fFaiurfs of the returns 
for 1893. CiDn->moa, too. shows up well; but not 
eo coconut oil in which there is a very marked 
decrease as also in copra and poonac, compen- 
sated to some extent perhaps by the immtnse 
development of the local manufacture of 'debic- 
cated coconut,'' the shipments of which last year 
totalled nearly 6^ million lb. and the increase in 
the number ol coconuts shipped. Our only 
mineral of commercial importance, plumbago, 
cjmpares but p lorly with 1802, aod the main 
products geueraiiy do not ph iw any special im- 
provent eave ' Palmyra Fitre" which has ehot 
up iti a wonderful way to 35,004 o«t. 
We rts rve a mi re detailed consideration of our 
leadicg expine for an early issue. 
TEA, WOMAN'S EIGHTS, AND LOSS OF 
TEETH. 
Whit is the cornea ion bftween these three oddly 
assorted subjects ? Dr. J. Murray Gibbes, of Aus- 
tralia, affirms th^t tea excites the nerves, and tb«t 
as women drink more tea than men, cons> qu<-ntly 
their nerves get more excited. Nerve txcitrment 
causes a fevf'risb rueh for openings and protei-sioDs 
for women ; these entail mental labor. Inceaee of 
mental development in women can ou'y take place 
at the expense of their phjsiqu". ' Therefore," 
Dr. Gibbes concludes, "in t»o emerations or bo 
bo'h men and women will be toothless ! !'' 
Not where they stick to coffee or beer. We know 
maidens cf tbiee score ai.d ten, inveterate tea 
drinkers, whose teeth are sound and whose nerves 
are of iioo. The abur^e of tea, however, as of other 
stimulants, carries with it a traia of disorders. — 
American Grocer. 
TEA PLANTING AISD WILD TRIBES 
IN NUETH INDIA. 
Ceylon planters may havb their worries and 
troubles, but their lot is a happy one compared 
with that of their brethren in Nonb Inoia bordering 
as wild tribes, where the autboritits are obliged to 
issue warning notices like the following : — 
Deae Sip., -As I received information that it is 
likely tbat IBhiitiahs from the portion of Bhutan 
bordering on British lerritory may visit tea gardens 
on the frontier during the cold season with the object 
of stealing guns and ammunition, it would be r.s well 
to take precaution for the safe custody of any guns 
or rifles you may possess and to direct your 
registered chowkidars to keep a watch over any 
Bhatiah who may come to the Gardens and report 
their movements to the Police. 
The coiresponaenc who has sent us the above 
mentions that his neighbour's tuugslow was looted 
and his guns and ammunition and hie BBsiBtant'e 
guo etolen. 
