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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [July 2, 1894. 
8 A cireful record is kept of the inilk given by 
each cow thus ;— 
No. Name of Cow. Monday. Tuesday. W'day. 
1 Daisy — pints ..5 G 
2 Strawberry — pints 
Ktc, eto. do 
Th'day. Friday. Sat'day. 
o £ o £ ° s: 
S3 <3 S ^ 53 ^ 
1 Da : sy — pints 
2 Strawberry — pints 
Etc., etc. do 
and the totals are made up at the end of the week. 
Ab an instance of the rctnarkub'e milk-giving qualities 
of the Scinde cow, I may mention that one of them 
named Queeni, when iu good condition gives no less 
than nine piuts in the morning and seven pints in 
the evening. 
9. The dietary s ale is ta follows:— 7 lb. poonao, 
2 lb cotton seed, and 8 small bundles of Maurit ; us 
grass for good milker*, wliile ordinary milkers get 
4lb. of poorsac iostead of 7 lb. The poonac ia made 
of "giugelly," which is considered more milk produc- 
ing and wholesome than the ordinary coco cake. The 
cotton teed is obtahud from the cotton shrub, and be- 
fore being use I is soaked in water for a few honrs and 
then crushed in a pestle and mortar. Ordinary rice 
gruel (kaiiji) is sometimes g'veD, but is not a favourite 
diet as, although it produces plmty of milk, there 
is a lack of richness in it. The cittlo are fed at 
9 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily, but are rarely turned out to 
graze, priucipa'ly because the site of the Dairy offers 
no good grazing ground. 
10. As a result of my visi> to tha farm, 1 feel 
oertain that the establishment of a similar institution 
at Kuala Lumpur would be atterded with satisfactory 
reu't', and I trust that the information given above 
may p-ove of value to the Governm. nt.— I have, etc., 
George C. Bellamy, Distriot Offioer. 
OTT0-0F-R0SE MANUFACTURE IN ASIA 
MINOR. 
Ten thousand rose-bushes brought from Kizanlik 
have lately been plai te 1 at Karassi and the environs 
of Broussa (Asia Miuor.) These plantations will 
serve as nurseries ; it is intended to extend the plan- 
tation of rose-tushea iu ihe province acd make 
experiments in the manufacture of otto of rose*. — 
Chemist and Druggist. 
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INDIARUBBER, 
We have no'iced with much interest that the item 
of india rubber is beginning to creep into the 
catalogue of our exports. Tne ousloni's returns from 
Ttbiromo show that dur ng the year 1893 about £250 
worth of iudiarubber was exporttd from that port. 
The rubber chiefly camo from the West Shire, Lower 
Shire, and Ruo Districts. 
Nevertheless researches conducted by H, M. 
Commissioner at different times 6how that rubber 
yielding vines or trees grow in almost all parts of 
British Central Africa below an altitude of four 
thousand feet. So far as we yet know, the main 
sources of Indiarubter in this part of Africa are 
one or more species of View (wildfifi) ai;d perhaps 
two species of the Landolphia creeper. The Ficus 
trees producing rubber are worth cultivating for their 
handsome appearance, their rapid growth, and 
splendidly umbrageous foliage. Numbers of them may 
now bi seen growing round Fort Johnston on what 
has formerly a sandy waste. 
But as the rubber produced by them is of an 
inferior quality they may be discarded from our 
prespnt, consideration because at the distance we are 
from the coast we can only afford to expert the 
best rubber. Fortunately we have growing hera almost 
universal y in every bit of forest, in all luxuriant 
" bush" by the banks, of streams, one or two 
species of Landolphia, nimely L. owxriensis 
and L.florida or kirkii. 
Landolphias produce souio of the best rubber io 
the world. Good samples of the Landolplda otear- 
emu rubier from West Africa were quoted at two 
shilling and threepence a pound two or three jears 
rgo; though we believe prices are now somewhat lower. 
Nevertheless it must be remembered tl at the chief 
va'.oe of rubber lies iu the way in which it has been 
prepared. Balls of rubber containing a large pro- 
portion of water or mixed op with dun', twig', 
fragments ol I -.»>••• or other extraneous aubaUnoes 
are only half the va'ue of the same subetanoe pro- 
perly dried aud kept free from din rubbish. At the 
present scale ot prices Ludotphia rubber from 
this country prepared wi h only average care 
should realise in the Earepean market from Is 6d 
to Is. 2d. a pouud. We should think at the *e prices 
planters might afford to offer the natives a yard aud 
a ha'f of calico (say Cd) per pound of good rubber. 
The Yaos certaitly know the Landufphia, which they 
like the riwahilis c II " Mpira " (rubber) — Whilst 
prepiriDg this ebon article > Vuo l rvant waa asked 
to go out and cut two or t lire • branch) s of Landolphia 
creep< r. Io halt an hour be r. turned with the b a iobea 
from which we have made the drawing overkaf. 
Unfortunately the creeper it not at preientiu flower 
so we can only trust to our readers identifying it 
by the U aves and tendrils. Trie flour is white with 
a bweet scent and the Iruit is pear shaped aod the 
size of u small orange. A slight scratch on the bark 
producers Ihe white t ick sap which soon oongulste 
in'o mbber. — Central Africa Gazette. 
TEA AND SCANDAL. 
I Btnd jou thio time two more of the diatribes 
against Tea that were published in America iu 1774. 
Tue first is called 
A Lady's Adieu to heii Tea-Table. 
Farewell ihe TVn-b arJ with its gaudy exiuipajre. 
The caps and saucers, cream bucket, sugar tongs ; 
The pretty Tea-chest also, lately slvrel 
With Hyson, C. m.oii, enl best Double Fine. 
Full many a j youa moment have I sat by >e 
Hear ii/ the girls tattle, the old maids talk scandal, 
And the s;nuc» coxcomb laugh at may-be nothing. 
No more shall I dish out the once loved Ji<|aor, 
Though now detestable ; 
Because I'm taught, (and I believe .it true,) 
Its u e will fasten slavish chains upon my country, 
And Liberty's the godJess I would choose 
To reign triumphant io. America, 
The next is entitled 
VlEGINIA BiNISHIKO TEA. 
(By a Lid v. Fennsj lvauia Journal, Sept. 14, 1774 / 
Begone, pernicious, baneful Tea, 
With all Pandora's ills possessed ; 
Hysou, i o more beguiled by thee, 
My noble sons shall be oppressed ; 
To Britai i fly, where gold enslaves, 
And venal men their birthright sell. 
Tell North aud his bribed clan the news. 
Their blooJy acts were made in hell : 
Iu Henry's reign these acts began, 
Which sacro t rules of juitice broke ; 
North now pursues the helli-h p'.an 
To fix on us his hellish yoke. 
But we oppose, and will ..e free. 
This grea!, gcod cause we willdefent; 
Nor Bribe, nor Gag*, nor Ncrtb's decree 
Shall make us ai his feet to bend. 
From AngliaS accient sons we came, 
Those h>rocs, who fur Freedom fought ; 
In Freedom's cause we 'II match their fame, 
By iheir example greatly taught. 
Our King we 1 ve, but North we hate, 
Nor will to him submission own ; 
If death's our do., in, we'il brave our fate. 
But pay allegiance to the throne, 
A ,: Merchant " in 1803, in a Dictionary of Mer- 
chandizs, says : — 
" We know the Chinese reserte the best Tea 
for themselves, and aeiul erate that, intended for 
exportation; we know alto that sir.ee the exportation 
has bei n so great ihey are not so circumspect iu 
the choice of the soil, nor so carelul in tn« pre- 
paration of the Tea, and that our manner of 
using it so hot^and strong, a ways mixed with a deal 
o r -agar, frequently with perfumes and sometimes 
