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« MANURING TEA "—AND THE 
CONSEQUENCE. 
Dear Sie, — For any sake don't start the manuring 
fad unlese you want the price of Ceylon tea to go 
down to about 4d per lb. 
We are told by people who have been monuring 
that the crop may ba increased 200 lb. per acre 
by application of artificial manure, 
Two hundred pounds per acre on 250,000 acreb 
of tea already planted means 50 millions iixreaEe ! 
What arc you going to da with it? 
We are ako told that once begun, manuring 
must La ccntinu'.d. ^relse the tea dies out; so w- 
have to ti ce an increase of 50 million*, with an 
average price of Leylon tea of about 41 per lb. 
— result general bankruptcy; or the ait rnative of 
leaving well alone - Yours, MANUltE. 
[What about "gardens'' giving 300 lb. p r ecro 
or less with tea averaging 1 ? Are tbeir owners 
not to endeavour to bt-ttei tbeir position? It 
would be interesting, however, to have Mr. John 
Hughes' opinion on tbe situation as a whole. 
He recommends moderate, judicious manuring 
after a general fashion in order to maintain the 
fertility of the soil ; but whut does be cay to the 
fear of maDy Ceylon planters, voiced above, that 
if general manuring set in, crops must be so 
iuoreased that over production would be accentuated 
with a vengeance ? ! — Ed. T,A j 
VARIOUS PLANTING NOTES. 
Coffee Cultivation in the Stkaits. — We have 
more than once remarked lately how rapidly 
the cultivation of coffee is extending in Selangor, 
whilst Perak is hardly doing anything in that direc- 
tion. The lollowing extracts from the J'inaiit/ (Jdtcttf 
shew still further advance* in the neighbourhood 
of Klang. aud also that a gentleman who has been 
working for years in Perak in mining pursuits is 
leaving that part of the couutry and taking up land 
in Selangor : — 
Mr. J. K. O. Aldworth, the District Officer, reports 
that on the 14th November. Mr. Aylesbury, of Perak, 
put iu a provisional application for a block of 1.000 
acres of low-lying land for Liberiau coffee planting. 
On the Kuala Klang road msny acres had been 
cleared on both sides of the road, and coffee nur- 
series wtre being put in. The land is all taken 
up in small holdings uuder ens omary tenure. The 
applications for land in the Kwala Selangor district 
for the cultivation of coffee continued to be numerous 
during the month of November, the applications 
varying from blocks of 10 to 100 local. — " Times 
of Ceylon." 
Coffee Prospects in Ceylon.— It is cheering 
to hear of any little revival in our old staple. 
Gooomatava is said to have the best coffee left 
in Haputale, though Boehampton is not far behind 
if its coffee got equal justice done to it. In the 
Badulla district, Nahavilla (the Dew Company) 
is said to have 100 acres of coffee that has never 
boeu troubled with bug and which may go on 
bearing between 2 and 3 cwt. p?r acre with libaral 
treatment. Gowrakella and Mousagalla are also 
well off for ocffae and there is a nice little crop 
on Namunacooly estate. — Perhaps the highest 
field now in Ceylon is the 45-acre one on Tom- 
magong in the Kandapolia division, Nuwara Eliya, 
This is between 5,00j and 5,500 feet above sea- 
level, looks very luxuriant, yielded about 300 
bushels last season and is expeoted to give 450 
during the present year, or about 2 cwt. per acre. 
Our rather pessimistic friend and correspondent 
" An old coffee stump '' in a letter which he 
subscribes as " not for publication '! (oecause we 
suppose, of his extremely gloomy remarks about 
Ceylon tea) adds the following paragraph on 
coffee : — 
" Will let you know later on what the result of 
the blossom (coffee) is going to be. At present 
green bug is increasing and looks as if it was 
preparing to be in force when the young berry is 
in the milky etage ; as for leaf disease, it is always 
on the spot." 
We shall ba glad to have the latest report ; but 
" old coffee Btuinp " should first make a round 
of Haputale, Badulla and UdapusE&hawa, 
