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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [June i, 1894. 
MR. R. S. FKASER ON NEW AND OLD 
PEODUCTS. 
This gentletnan whose name is so well-known 
as Managing Proprietor of the fine plantationa 
of EandenuwBra acd Watiapolla in Matale East, 
baa just spent some four months in Cej'lon. 
During that period, Mr. and Mrs. Eraser have 
travelled a good deal over the inland, visilirg 
Trincomalee and the East Ooast, and a number 
o( the Planting Districts. Mr. Fraser, it will be 
remembered, was a pioneer in cacao cultivation. 
Like the late Mr. Tytler, he visited Trinidad and 
published a little Manual as the result of bis 
visit, Mr. Fraser is a little afraid now that the 
planting ot oaaao in Ceylon is being overdoce in 
the sense ot plants being put out in Eoil, in 
some oases, too poor to carry them. The pricts 
for this product have aho not been encoura- 
ging ot late. On Wariapolla, there is still 
Coffee Arahica as well as Lrberica and from 
the former, grown under Hhade, a crop of 1,000 
bushels has been got with almost no expense. 
Mr. Fraser believes that our old staple would still 
pay to cultivate if ihere were suitable soil, and 
under shade. Be is also cultivating Para rubber, and 
tea is doing fairly well on both plantations. It 
will thus be seen that these fine old Matale estates 
are well to the front in both new and old products 
and we say, long may they flourish ; and may 
we often see Mr. and Mrs. Fraser back on visits 
to an island where they are so generally esteemed 
and with which their family have so long been 
conneoted. 
The Superintendent of Wariapola Mr. L. B. 
Dickenson, after many years faithful service, goes 
home on leave by the same steamer and it is a 
coincidence that Mr. Hugh Fraser of Bandarapola 
who used to manage both Kandenuwara and 
Wariapola, also travels Westward by the"OhueaD." 
We hope all will have a pleasant passage and 
an enjoyable time in the old country. 
TRAVANCORE TEA. 
The lollowing is a snnimary of Traviincore tea sold 
at Public auction in London between January Ist and 
December Slst, 1893 ; quantity in lb and average prices 
realized. The figures have been taken ffom Messrs. 
Gow, WilfOQ and Stanton's weekly reports and maybe 
onsidered substantial'y oorreot. 
Over 50,000 lb. 
lb. 
av. price 
Seafield 
59,850. 
.... 8-84cJ 
Bon Ami 
... 165,500. 
....8-77d 
Kadawa E«rum... 
99,100, 
...SlOd 
Venture 
... 188,200. 
....SOOd 
Penshurst 
82,550 
....7-70d 
Isfteld 
... 100,950,. 
....l-GSd 
Ponmndi 
87,150. 
....7-68d 
Nagamally ... 
63,050, 
....7-58i 
Wallardi 
50,900. 
Animudi 
59,100 
...l-38d 
Stagbrook 
74,300 
,.,.7-2W 
T. P. C. 
... 126,300 
....void 
20,000 111. to 50.000. 
lb. 
Kiptnyiies ,22,508 
Ccrrimony .35.100 
Arnakal : .34,400 
Braemore 39,7(0 
Belford 2(,a50 
Fairfield 58,600 
Home 24,4fO 
GleDmore 31,000 
Glen Mary ....41,100 
Glenbrittle . , . .'31,300 
av. price 
d 
lb. av. 
8-10 
.&-05 
8-04 
8-00 
7-96 
7-79 
7-t6 
7-60 
7-60 
Venabanard.. ..46 
Parvithl 36, 
Bon accord.. ..43, 
Invercauld.. ..36, 
Mount 32, 
Seenikali 31, 
Brigton 29 
Invernettle 9, 
C M E 28 
Rcckwood 41 
200 
,600 
,450 
,6 0 
9S0 
,f00 
100 
,100 
,450 
300 
price 
d 
7-55 
7-49 
7-48 
7-22 
7-21 
7-13 
C-94 
7-62 
6'89 
6-67 
lb. 
Gutalsudh.. ..la.fiOO 
J D M 2,500 
Maimalla 5,000 
G P T 2,4C0 
Ualamore 13,500 
Great Valley . . 6,400 
Morchislon.. ..16,000 
PemtitoriTa 3,300 
EG 6,0C0 
Bison Valley ..19,800 
Pauoavenun . . 2,106 
Under 20.000 lb 
av. Price 
d 
&0 
60 
25 
35 
15 
03 
90 
lb. av. price 
A'ihl^y ia.000 
I' l.aoo 
Graml'j... »,iSO 
C & U EetaUCo. 
Veu 8 TOO 
Carady Goodv 16,%0 
AtchencoU ... '8,fiu0 
'•75 Llnwvod IS.WO 
•01 Chawriiualla ..1,800 
•50 OK 2,400 
f-60 Arlenkow 7,360 
Total l,980,60ulb. 
d 
7-» 
7 00 
«'»t 
aT& 
e«) 
6'»3 
6-33 
«-26 
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INSECT ENEMIES: INDIAN MUSEUM 
NOTES. 
We have received a copy of No. 3 of Volame HI. 
which cootalDi: A new Coccid from Ceylon, by O. B. 
Buckton, F.B.s. ; A new Species of Fulioridaj, by M. 
Lfctbierry ; A new enemy of the Custard Apple, traae 
lation by F. Moore ; Notes on ludian Aphidie ; by 
G. B. Buckton, f.r.s. ; and Miaeellaneoaa Notes txom 
the Eatomologioel Section, by E. C. Cotes. Mr. 
Baokton gives a minute deeoription of the coocus 
explaining at the outset that iu March 169^ he re- 
ceived from Ceylon • congi({nment of twigs and 
leaves of Crosiandra which were incnisted by a white 
Bemi-fiooculeot matter, which proved to be the exuda- 
tion of a ipeciea of Orthezia, apparently nndeforibed. 
Unfortunately the specimens arrived in a bad cao- 
dition from the effects of mildew, which rendered 
the examination less complete than could be wished. 
Amongst the miscellaneous note* are several dealing 
with teak defoliators aud tbe Travanoore teak borer; 
the ideniifieation of the mosqaito, a besperid rater- 
pillar iDjuring paddy, the orange tree defoliator, and 
tke preservation of books from inseots. 
RECENT RUBBER RESEARCH. 
Either on account of the panio newi that has been 
spread abroad as to ao alleged probable failure ot 
the Rubber and Gutta-percha supply or from some 
other causes, it is certain that Rubber, Gutta-percha, 
Balata, &c , have recently come very nrnch to the' 
front. As (or the last earned product, Balata, it is 
simply " all over the shop" at the present time. Mr. 
Smith Delacoor has been reporting to the Foreign 
Office on the Balati of Surinam— its most valuable 
product. Of this report, we shall have more to tay 
hereafter, but several of oor contemporaries have 
taken the report as a text for homilies on tbe failure 
of rubber, &c., and the blessed advent cf Balata as a 
saviour to the insulating and allied indnstrieB.— /ndta 
Rubber Journal. 
COFFEE IN PERAK. 
A gentlemBD largely interested in planting who 
has just returned from a visit to tbe Straits gives 
a very hopeful account of coffee in Perak. He 
states that both Arabian and Liberian coffee, are 
looking remarkably well and giving good promiBe. 
He inspected the two estates held by Europeans 
there and he found no trace whatever of bag, 
while there were only the very slightest signs of 
disease and that on the Liberian leaves. Ab to 
which elevation was the better for either kind of 
coffee was as yet an undetermined question, but 
the fact remains that at present Arabica vs-as grown 
on the higher and Liberian on the lower slopes 
and there was plenty of good land for extension! 
There were about 150 acres in bearing on each of 
the two European estates— there were numerous 
small native gardens of Liberian— and perhaps 
about the same extent opened up, and he believed 
that each estate could bring about 1,000 acres 
under cultivation. Capitalists, he was of opinion 
would find very good investment for their monev 
in Perak. ^ 
