March i, 1894.I 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST 
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of lodiaD and Ceylon teas to China, that the 
&rst hold on the Colonial market was got. 
Many Ceylon planters seem to forget that it is 
much the same whether Indian or Ceylon tea is 
Ebld in America so long as China and Japan aro 
busted : for, every ton of Indian tea sent to America 
is so much withdrawn from competition with Ceylon 
in London I 
MR. II. K. RUTHERFORD COMPLETES HIS 
liVSPECTION AND LEAVES FOE ENGLAND. 
MAEIAWATTE TEA. PLANTATION AVEBAGING OVER 
1,100 LB, FOR TEN YEARS ON THE ORIGINAL 
104-ACRE FIELD. 
Mr. Rutherford has not been idle since he lauded 
in Colombo on 18th November last ; and it is very 
satisfactory to learn that his inspection of tea 
plantations both of his own Company, (the Ceylon 
Tea Plantations Co.) and of other Companies 
with which he is connected, has been thoroughly 
eatisfaotory and that he carries back with him to 
London, on the whole, most favourable impres- 
sions of the present condition of our Tea In- 
dustry, so far as it has come under his notice. 
The C. T. P. Co.'s 7,200 acres we may mention 
averaged about 418 lb. per acre last year, while 
the net average price per lb. will be above 8d 
Mr. Rutherford leaves (Feb. 1st) for London by 
the se. <* Arcadia." 
Rcspeoting Mariawatte— the moat famous per- 
haps of the premier Ceylon Tea Company's Gardens, 
we have been favoured by the Manager in answer 
to out inquiry with the following interesting 
particulars :— 
"Mariawatte crop for 1893 was 374,949 lb. tea= 
808 lb. per acre all over, The old 1(J4 acres gave 
1,110 lb. per acre, eo you see it is not falling off, Tbe 
whole estate, with the exception of about 30 acre?, 
was pruned durirg the jear. The rainfall for the year 
was 86'22 inches, which is 12'86 inobea lees than tbe 
previous year's. The outturn of tea from the Factory 
was 734,7601b." 
It is of special interest with the close of the 
decade of full bearing to give the crop year by 
year for the original 104-acrea field planted in 
1879 i— 
Average crop per acre : 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1,050 lb. 
1,133 
1,018 
1,115 
1,018 
1,094 
1890 
1S91 
1892 
1893 
Total ..11,113 
Average 
♦ 
1,111 
BADULLA PLANTING PRODUCTS, 
TfiA. — This product may now be said to be our chief 
staple, and your Committee are gliid to report that 
during 1803 oonaiderable progress has been made in 
it^ construction asd extension. The crops during the 
?ear have been good, the yield per acre has been 
arge, and estimates in most cases have been exceeded, 
Prices generally have been above average. Estimates 
of the probable out put of tea from the districts dnrin({ 
18'J4 have been framed by your Committee. Your 
Committee aro further pleased to note the introduc- 
tion of fri-sh capital to the district, and they feel that 
tbu Badulla and Mndnlsima dirtricts under tea culti- 
vation have » great future before them. 
Coffee. — The cultivation generally of thip prodoct 
ia ontbedecllne, crops as a rale have been p lor but 
in a few instaDces moderatelj good crops have been 
Cocoa.— The fcason for cocca has been a fairly 
good one, bat your Oommiltie le^ret to notice lha 
fall in price ot this product. 
THE EXHIBITION OP VICTORIAN 
PRODUCTS. 
Messrs, Howe and Kblly, the Viatorian Com- 
missioners, went up to Kandy for the pur- 
pose, we understand, of having an interview with 
His Excellency the Governor, to whom they baar 
a letter of introduction from the Earl of Hof e- 
toun, ard also with His Exoellsncj' the Major- 
General, «ith regard to their mission to enquire 
and report upon the prospects of a trade being 
established with Ceylon in the products of the 
colony ihey represent. In a previous article we 
enumerated the samples of produce they have 
brought with them au:l w'rich they ictend to 
exhibit in thj Wharf & Warehouse Company's 
store beneath the offices of the P. AO. Company; 
and in our advertising columns the list is 
repeated with brief notes on the various ittms. 
The wines have been specially selected for use 
in Eastern countries and comprise claretp, sherry, 
port, burgundy, riesling, hock, chablis, frontignao,' 
muscat, shiraz, ohasselaa, etc, and the brandy has 
been distided from wine chosen for its excellent 
quality and flavour. In the brewing of the ales 
which are to ba exhibited the best malt and hops 
have been used and they are said to be very 
well suited for hot climates. Of preserved meats 
there is a very large assortment including sheep 
tongues and trotters, beef, roast meat, corned 
beef, luncheon b^ef, ohioken, ox-oheek and vege^ 
tables, mutton, roast mutton, ooraed mutton 
and boiled rabbit. The butter for which there ia 
an ever increasing demand in England and the 
cheese are made up in tins acd jars of various 
weights. Condensed milk ia another specialty. 
It is pure milk from the cow reduced to one-fourth 
its original bulk by condensation and without 
the addition of sugar, and when distributed 
keeps, according to the sanitary condition of the 
store, from one to three weeks, and in some cases 
two months exposed to tte atmosphere. Herme- 
tically Ecaled and kept in frozen storage it should 
keep sweet and misoible indefinitely, and kept a 
few weeks unbroken out of the frozen storage 
should be good several days after opening. In 
order to bring it to ordinary milk three pirta of 
water evaporated from it in manufacture require 
to be restored. Another speciality and quite a 
modern discovery is compressed forages consisting 
of chaff, bran, com cake, (composea of crushed 
oats and crushed maize) ; and forages for horses, 
cattle and sheep (compose 1 of chaff, oats, maize 
and bran in varying proportion). These feeds, 
we are assured, contain only what we hava 
specified, no foreign element whatever being 
used in the process of compression which 
adds very largely to the keeping properties of the 
fodders which are highly nutritious, distributed 
easily and llnd their normal in bulk, in mastication 
so that animals cannot bolt their food. They 
will not spontLueously ignite ard if placed in fire 
will not llamo but smoulder away. For storage, 
shipment, or road transit they are well adapted, 
the saving in freight alone, it is said, being a 
handsome profit. It will be noted also that in the 
advertisement the Commissioners give prominonoo 
to Eucalyptus ( xtracts and oils which they f ,'\y aro 
very efficacious in colds and atYections of tbo 
cheat and throat as wdl as a disinfectant in pick 
rooms. Of their quinine wine likewise they lisvo 
very high tcistituoulals. As alreAdy a(at«J all in. 
