Feb. 1, 1894.J THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 541 
EXPERIMENTS IN TEA-GROWING. 
Experiments in the cultivation of tea are being 
made at (-'hakva, a few miles distant from Batoum, 
the climatic conditions of which place are specially 
suited for growint; tea trees. Several thousand trees, 
says the British Consul, have recently been planted 
by a wealthy Moscow tea merchant, who, the Consul 
understands, is about to engage the services of 
experienced Chinese tea planters to look after his 
plantations. 
There is an unlimited area of pasture land during 
the summer months on the highlands of the Trans- 
Caucasus, and the lowlands afford abundant pasturage 
during the winter months. Cattle-rearing is, there- 
fore, much resorted to by the population, but the 
scarcity of fodder last winter, owing to cold and 
snow, cattle plague, foot and mouth disease, pleuro- 
pneumonia, and other disorders which have been 
prevalent during th-i year, caused the mortality 
among livestock throughout the country to be 
enormous. — Commerce. 
aaiPPED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM. 
January.., 
February .. 
March ... 
April 
May 
June 
July 
August ... 
St'ptember 
O toher ... 
No-eiiber. 
Ddcembor. 
1891, 
lb. 
5,162 518 
4,503,200 
5,98i937 
6,239,8Si 
6,414 344 
5,338,347 
6 603,721 
4,396 311 
4.027,303 
4,547,608 
4,4211,764 
6 105,947 
1892, 
lb. 
4,920,806 
4,980 654 
6,584,128 
6,1165,981 
6,996,05a 
7,010,726 
6,271,-JlS 
4,128,969 
3.80U,U3 
4,0:'8,060 
5 226,234 
4,801,240 
1893. 
lb. 
5,766,144 
6,143,530 
5,9uC,5-23 
6,779,085 
8,421,822 
7,287,070 
6,422,606 
4.979,900 
4,516,787 
5,.502.672 
5,701,310 
8,078 532 
LIBERIAN COFFEE IN JAVA. 
The Indische Mercuur states that : — " In msny 
pa'ts of J-iva. where the plantations of coffee 
Arabica Eeema to become less profitable, there 
will be a better future by planting Liberian 
coBee, because this speoiea does not want such 
a rioh soil and olimate, and does not suffer so 
much from the blight. Till at present, the Govern- 
ment has not done so much in planting Liberian 
for their own account ; but seeing the good results 
private planters were getting with Liberian coffee, 
it proijoses now to give a great extension to that 
culture. Up to the present time only 2,800 acres 
are planted by the Government, and the Javanese 
ure tx. ending for their own account also greatly 
that Bpecies." 
TEA PROSPECTS. 
With the Ceylon teis' average in Mincing Lane 
again touching its lowest point at 8d and the 
pi'vbibility of a large increace of stocks when the 
Cheshire" 's and other large cargoes get home, 
the proapeot is certainly not a oheerful one. But 
on the other hand we may recall the fact that 
of Indian teas there have been unusually large 
o3erings of late, and that there is no appearance 
ol specially heavy stocks. Again shipments from 
Ceylon are likely to be light not only for January, 
but probably also for February. There are those 
who anticipate that 6 million lb. may cover the 
total shipments to the United Kiuj^dom not only 
this month but also in February. This would 
merely mean the same quantity for the two 
months as in the same period of 1893, as may 
be seen from the following return of monthly 
Bhipments for three seasons according to the Cham- 
ber's figures : — 
We may add the course of Minoing Lane Sales 
arc! Prices for 1893, according to ouc Special 
Telegrams from Messrs. Gow, Wilson & Co.:— 
§1 
,., 93,738.858 64,917,193 75,500,077 
Date. 
Packagei 
offered. 
ackages 
sold. 
eutor's 
average 
.W.&S.' 
average 
Jan 6 
9000 
9000 
lOJ 
lOJ 
.,' 13 
21000 
20000 
io| 
10| 
lOi 
.. 19 
20000 
19000 
lOJ 
lot 
26 
13000 
12000 
io± 
Feb. 3 
13000 
12000 
lui 
,, 10 
13000 
1200) 
n 
lOi 
11 17 
15000 
13000 
10 
H 
H 
11 24 
Mar. 3 
13000 
lluOO 
9J 
11000 
10000 
94 
9i 
H 
in 
21000 
18000 
9t 
17 
24000 
20000 
H 
9 
24 
210OO 
19000 
9 
9 
31 
ij 
April 7 
11640 
10000 
9 
9 
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14. 
ij 
21000 
20000 
9i 
9 
11 21 
18000 
17000 
9i 
9 
,, 28 
18000 
16000 
H 
IVI ay 5 
20000 
19000 
9i 
9i 
,1 12 
17000 
15000 
9 
8i 
8J 
>i 19 
15000 
1400O 
8i 
„ 26 
9000 
9000 
8* 
8i 
June 2 
230OO 
21000 
8 
8 
11 9 
26000 
20000 
8 
8 
„ 16 
190110 
16'JOO 
8 
7i 
7I 
11 23 
9000 
70000 
8 
11 30 
23000 
21000 
8 
8 
July 7 
22000 
lilOOO 
8 

1, 14 
13O0O 
12000 
8 
8 
„ 21 
19000 
18000 
8 
8i 
8i 
11 28 
26000 
2400O 
H 
Aug, 4 
26000 
24000 
8* 
,1 H 
7000 
70O0 
8i 
Sh 
8J 
8 
1. 18 
190J0 
17000 
H 
fi 25 
190110 
16000 
8* 
Sept. 1 
26000 
23000 
8 
„ 8 
13000 
8i 
8 
„ 15 
12U00 
11000 
8J 
,, 22 
llOUO 
nouo 
9i 
94 
1, 29 
Oct. a 
20000 
19000 
9| 
9^ 
15j00 
14000 
94 
n 
„ 13 
170U0 
15000 
9| 
9i 
1, 20 
12000 
11000 
9i 
9i 
27 
13000 
12000 
n 
9 
Nov, 3 
,1 10 
11000 
IIOOO 
IOOOO 
10000 
H 
9| 
9* 
,1 17 
17000 
15000 
9i 
9^ 
9| 
9.^ 
.1 24 
14000 
12000 
„ 31 
Dec. 7 
10000 
9U00 
23'.0O 
21000 
H 
9 
1, 14 
20000 
18000 
9 
„ 21 
17000 
14000 
f 
9 
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10 
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9i 
> 8 
To'al... 837,640 757.000 
[Private Sales account for the difference.] 
VARIOUS AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 
The Upper Ajiazoxian Basin.— We learn that 
following in the footsteps of Messrs. Sinclair and 
Ro38, an Aberdonian Mr. Bobb is now in chMga 
of a "Colony" of settlers in the interior of Peru 
on the headwaters of the Amazon's tributaries 
We suppose coffee and cacao will be chiefly ouhivatedi 
Desiccated Coconuts.— A correBpondeu; writes-— 
Work in aloiOst ail the desiccA'ed cocouut Oiills in 
Colombo, are a*, a stsnd still ninoe the middle of 
last mojtb, aid the poor labourera— no fewer than 
two to three hundred in each mill— are throwa oat 
of employment jast now. It ia stid that tbere is 
hardly auy demand for desiccate! eooouat duriog 
this BesBou of the jear in the Kuglisb m«rket, »n4 
heDce this 6Uddfn stoppige of work. It ii to bo 
hoped, however, thatetol'Ug work will be rcsomtj 
ia tbtse ntillsiof (be b^oeSt 9( all f9ficeioed. 
