April 2, 1894.J THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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lean demons " — Lat Brother Jonathan stick to 
his Japanese" green muck, bad rotten cofiee, " 40 
rod pumpkin whit-key," and other abominalions ! 
There are thousands on thousands rf people 
of British birth in Amerioa, who have tasted 
Bnd used black tea, and who will find our teas 
an improvement on the dirty China stuff. A 
Committee of select business men here and 
another in London — a sine-qua non — would deftly 
and well arrange the matier, were tea forth- 
coming. 
Much might be done by individual effort, but 
Union is Strength. 
All traders of the " Cbe.^p John " style ou^ht 
to ha avoided like " pisin." " They fecht only 
for their ain hau' — au' are at best but doolfu' 
tae deal wi." 
Nothing may be of an originBl nature in the 
above remarks, but at least I re-eaho the idea 
of the average plaraer. Eh ? — Yours faithfully, 
SENEX. 
VARIOUS AGEICULTURAL NOTES. 
The iNDliN GOVEBSMENT QoiN INE-SALES. — Last 
year the Indian Government di.sposed of nearly a 
million and a half doses of quinine at the post- 
offiacs of the country. — Chemist and Druggist. 
A Wynaad t'oHRESPONDENT of the /. p. G., saya 
leaf disease is very prevalent in the district. The 
cinchona are bdng cut down on every estats, as 
all the disease of the coffee trses has been attri- 
buted to the cinchona. — Nilgiri News. 
OoFFEE. — The Soarabaga Courant give? particulars 
of a trade in coffee between Java and Japan. A 
couple of months ago, a firm at that port sent a few 
c(vts. of the article as a trial phipmEiit to Yokohama. 
In Japan, the ocffee won high praise and fetched 
good prices. The result is that a demind has sprung 
up there for Java coffee. — Madras Mail. 
Royal Gaiiden.3, Kew : Bulletin of Miscellanea ua 
Information or March. C'onfeatp.— Sugar-Cane Di- 
nif-aa in Old Wor d. S minal Va-iatioQ in the Sa^iar- 
Oane Imprcvement of Sugir-Oauo by CLemioal 
Selection of Seed-Csne?. Gaz^>rat Rap". Agri- 
ciilturo in British Honduras. Decades Kowensps. 
VIII. Aitlficial Produotii)a of Citric Acid. Mis- 
coUaaeoua Notes. 
NiCABAGOA Rubber Methods. — One method used 
by the rubber huntara is to facrape oS the outer 
bark of the trees «iih a ' machete," commencing 
8 or 10 feet above and extending down to within 1 
or 2 feet of the ground. Clay fcloae, or a vine and 
clay, is pUced around the tree, inoliutd, eg as to 
form a ridge about 2 inches high on the lower 
edge of the scraped oc h.irk removed part of the 
tree. The inclination of this guard is mada suffi. 
oient to direct the rapidly-flowing milk or emulsion 
into the receivers at the foot of the tree. — Trades 
Journal. 
Boast Coffee, as suggested by Mr. Elliot in a 
Madras contemporary, would, we think, be an 
excellent branch for a clever planter or enter- 
prizitig firm to take up. Of course the bottling 
idea would have to be given up on the score of 
expense but doing the ground c ffee up in half or 
one pound lead packets would surely be feasible 
and would, wo are certain, command a huge suc- 
cess. How ( xtrem^ ly difficult it is to seoure a good 
cup et ooSoo anywhere in India or elsewhere, 
everyone knows. Itid ,ed it is such a feat to roast 
the QofT''e one soU, that oven here in Ooty, in the 
heart ol the coffee districts, abominab'e prejiatations 
of chicory and ground beans secure a yr< at and in- 
creasing sale. Surely pure ground coffee selling at 
tii-i per lb. would oommaud as great a suoc^bs in 
the open market as the packet toaa do now.— Soi«/t 
oj India Observer. 
Tea in Russia — The Czar is said to be much 
I interested in the proposal to cultivate tea in Russia. 
] Hia Majesty has cordially seconded the attempt 
to cultivate the plant in the western limits of the 
Caucasus; where the temperature is stated to be 
much the same as that under which the plant 
grows in China. More than one consignment of 
shrubs has already arrived from China.— Ii. and 
0. Express. 
Writing of Nllgiri Tea the Ooty correspondent 
of the Planter gives the following as the opinion 
of an old Assam man as the principal reasons 
which led to the gain and final loss of the old 
Nilgiri tei flavour, " At first Nilgiri tea was 
decidedly common, much as it is now, then early 
in 1871, Assam methods were introduced with great 
success, then after a few years, the old ignorant 
way was again resumed, with the present miser- 
able low average that rules for Nilgiri teas. Now 
again Asiam manufacture is being taken up, and 
generally speaking, with very great euooess. In a 
fc'W years we shall probably see the Nilgiris once 
more famed for their unique bouquet. May it 
not bo quite bo evanescent as it was formerly ! 
All the Blue • Mountains can new boast of in 
the way of a distinctive flavour is ' burnt.' " — 
Nilgiri Ntivs. 
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