ioo THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [April 2, 1894. 
"EooKBTENNE EsTATE," near to Oodoowerre, 
comprising 812 acres, the property of Mt-Bsra. H. 0. 
Hoseason and G.E. Osborne has been purchased by 
Mr.W.H.Hannan of Medacombra.Watagoda for 117 ,000. 
As regards this property I know it beyond the 
shadow of a doubt that clearing of land— a part of 
Jt is to be commenced forthwith and that the area 
under Tea is to be extended, Mr. and Mrs, Hannan 
have already booked theier passage home, and till 
the return of the former from England and until 
further arrangements are made Mr. Hoseason will 
have the management of the estate and its exteneion. 
This place is between the 5th and 6th mile post on 
the road to Haputale and 12 miles from Ban4ara- 
■wella. There is also ample water power, hundreds 
of acres of land availaiile and any amount of fuel. 
The BaduUa Oya is on the Eastern side of the pro- 
perty. — Cor., local "Independent." 
Indian and Ceylon Teas — We do not at 
all approve of the tone of our friend Mr. Kirby's 
letter (page 69fi), although we know that bia viowa 
are shared by a large number of his brother | 
planters. We cannot at all aee the wisdom of Ceylon 
refusing to co-operate with India, or rather to allow 
India to oo opeiate with Ceylon. Would Mr. Kirby 
have a speoial Ceylon Agent and native atrvants go 
round the States, followed, or preceded by a 
similar special Agent for Indian teas ? The 
average American householders and dealers would 
certainly regard the visitors as rivals and would 
have their attention given to the difference between 
them and their teas, uutil they probably deolared,-= 
" A plague o'both your houses ; 
'• We can't decide between you and will just go on 
with our old teas,'' — Whereas what both countries 
have to do is to force the Americans to realize the 
inferiority of the China's and Japan's they are 
drinking as compared with British-grown, honestly 
prepared teas whether from India or Ceylon. 
Does Mr. Kirby not realize that whatever benefits 
one country in America, is sure to benefit the 
other, because it lessens the pressure on the 
London tea market. 
Tea Planting Companies.— We call atten- 
tion to the Reports of no less than four Planta- 
tion Companies, the annual meetings of which 
have been held. First we have the Yatiyan- 
tota Company, hitherto the premier Ceylon Com- 
pany Bo far as dividends went, but which this 
vear gives place to the Yataderiya with its 30 per 
bent dividend to shareholders. Still Yatiyantota is 
well to the front and save for the miEchief caused 
by helopeltis and losses though Coast Advances, 
would have kept up its previous year's recoid. The 
leturn for this Company hitherto are as follows : — 
1888 dividend 22 p. o. ; 1889=25 ; 1690=25 ; 1891 
40 : 1892=30 ; 1893=25. The We-o^'a Company 
oomes next as another Kelani Valley Company and i 
the return for the past year ie equal to 12 per 
cent dividend. Then we have 'the Glasgow Com- 
pany with the fine soil and climate of the Agra- 
natanas, and the Dunkeld Company representing 
favourable conditions in Dikoya —The one declares 
12 and the other 10 par cent, but both Reports 
apeak of young tea land yet to come into bear- 
ing. The Directors and Managers connected with 
these several Companies well deserve the thanks 
ol the shareholders. 
Ceylon Tea foe America. — The paper on 
«' Ceylon at the World's Columbian Exposition," 
in HcUligan's Illustrated World's Fair, to which 
we alluded the other day, winds up with the following 
paragraph which we hope will be widely read and 
studied by Americans 
The result of this careful attention to mannfacture 
is an article that for purity and oleanliDeas and for 
a combiaation of strength with delicacy of flavor 
caDBot lie equaled. No deleterions substaucea are 
fused into it to give it color like the teaa of ChiM 
a d Japan, uor any fxtrani-ouH faaenrea to give it 
QiVuT ; it is directly trt-ated on scientifia priuciplei 
by meihofls which coosurve and retain io the letf 
t'lie maximam quiutity of those virtaoua propertit^s 
whioh make it so wboleeome a beverage. S^aoe will 
not permit a discertation on the good qualitita of 
Ceyluu tea wliicb elaborate chemioal analysdS have 
iodioated, but it may be oheervud b<>ra that it poi- 
ees'es tba f spent al principle ' n which the dietetic 
value of all teas depend — namely, tbeioe — iu a greater 
proportion than any other t> a. It ir, weigbt for 
weight, more ecooomic*! th«n those of Ji>p*a and 
Chiua which fur the bulk of tlie tean iaip'rteJ into 
this country, au'I we have every bope frooi the ready 
manner in wl icb it bas b' eo received by the publio 
already, that it will prove to be tbet>a of tbe near 
future in this vast continent. If this hope is realized 
as it ebonld be, and as tbe merit of the article de- 
s'-rvcs, tbe object of our viiit here shall have b en 
met and an uoqueationably wholesome food product 
introduced into this ooantry. 
Mr. E. V. Cabby in Ceylon.— Mr. E. V. Corey, 
who returned here yesterday (13th) on a brief visit, 
speaks hopefully of tbe coffee enterpriite in Selan- 
gor, where be now is, but says that it is a case 
of sheer hard wark, and that be cannot leave his 
estate for any length of time. He bas come up to 
Ceylon to meet Mrs. Carey, who is coming out in 
the P. & O. 8. 8. " Victoria," due in a fortnight's 
time, and be will retnrn to the Straits by the 
P. & O. China boat that connects with the " Vic- 
toria." He says that his estate. New Amherst, 
Selangor, is a block of land of 1,000 acres in ex- 
tent, of which 430 acres bas been felled, while he 
has 250 acres opened in coffee, the oldest of 
which is 18 months, Mr. Gatebuuse worked with 
him for a time time ; but left Salangor some 
time ago, and he has another European as- 
sistant now and a conductor. His labour is 
chiefly Tamil, but Javanese are occasionally employed. 
Unlike Mr. Forsythe, who visited the Straits the 
other day, and on his return asserted that the 
Selangor Government " crimped " the planters' 
labourers by offering them higher pay, Mr Carey 
speaks in the highest terms of the local Govern- 
ment. Mr. Carey has given up cricket, though 
Selangor possesses a club which stands second in 
importance in the Straits, and which alone, he 
says, could easily beat United Ceylon. He will 
stay with Mr. Talbot at the Scrubs.'Nuwara Eliaya, 
until the " Victoria " arrives, and with that object 
went npcountry this morning (14th. ) 
The Cinchona Market. — In this morning's 
Ohseiver (Mar. 19) we quoted figures from the Cliemist 
and Druggist giving the export of cinchona from 
Java for the past five half years, July to December. 
The export for the pfriod in 1893, is less th»n 
for the same six months of the previous year, but 
the news that has come of Java having shipped 
900,000 lb. in Jan. this year alone shows the 
enormous reserves thsy must have, and it would 
simply be madness for any Ceylon planter to 
begin planting cinchona until more is learned from 
that colony. We ate glad to be able to say that 
we have been promised a full report of the posi- 
tion in Java at an early date. One correction 
that we have to make on the paragraph which we 
took over from a contemporary on Saturday is 
with regard to the Java planters having brought 
the price down from 83 to Is 3d per oz. Tbia 
was done by the Ceylon planters ; at least the 
fall to 33 if not 23 was caused by the Ceylon 
exports. The Java plentera have now the control 
of the market in their own hands, and with bark 
averaging 4| per cent, neither India nor Ceylon 
can for a moment compete even if they had ap- 
preciable reserves which they have not. We mast 
however wait for the full report which we have 
been promised beloro dealing further with tbe 
Bubjeot. 
