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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[Aug. i, 1894. 
seed, and I oaa testify to the coffee beirg rf the 
very highest quality. Mr. Hornung, who lives on tho 
Zimbesi informs me that they always try to get 
tome of this email-grain coffee to mix with tbe 
ordinary Coffee arabica because it fetches up the 
flavour. These small coffee-seed I have introduced 
into Ceylon and i»'o India. I am collecting la-ge 
supplies of seeds for other planters who have got 
plants from ray first seed. These faits will show yon 
that there is plenty of work left for collectors and 
iutroduoera of new io>A products to do, and tbe con- 
firmation by the Director of Ken U very yaWable to 
planters.— Yours truly, Thos. Christy. 
June let, 
TEA IN CHINA AND JAPAN. 
Upoountry, June 25. 
Deab Sib,— .Re leader on page 53, did your 
miesonary friend from China say what pro- 
duct was superceding tea ? Is it not probable 
that some other product is being cultivated to 
renovate the eoil and to prepare it for another 
spell in tea ? I understand that the Chinaman 
re-plants his plot of tea in from 10 to 30 years, 
according to the riobness of the soil. 
A friend who has been recently in Japan informs 
me that the tea bashed there have often a 
flushing surfaoe of 8 feet aoroas, and have pandals 
erectcu over them, not to protect them from the 
sun, but from frost (they are not troubled with 
too mubh actinism thero more than we are in 
Ceylon) I he also said that a Channel Island market 
gardener wpuld envy their style of cultivation. 
—Yours truly, AN OLD COFFEE STUMP. 
[Dr. Bigg of the C, M. S, reported that owing 
to the falling-off in the demand for tea from the 
foreign ports, the Chinamen in bis district were 
turning their tea fields into vegetablo gardens, 
growing food prcduots for themselves instead of for 
export. The Japanese are certainly the most 
careful of oulthators ; but they turn out very poor 
tea all the same.— Ed. T,A,] 
MANURING TEA AND ITS CONSE- 
QUENCES ? 
June 26th. 
Deab Sib,— I should be grateful if 'Manure' would 
answer the' following questions suggested by his 
latter : 
Is it not admitted that any man deserves well 
of his fellow-men who makes two blades of corn 
grow where one grew before ? 
Can be cite a case where a oheapening of pro- 
duction failed to benefit the producers who 
availed themselves of it? 
Is not overproduction tested by an undue accu- 
mulation of unsold slocks ? Is this the oase with 
tea at the present time? 
Ib it fair to call manuring a "fad," and to 
ask you to bring down your editorial denunciation 
on those who propose to try it? 
Will 'Manure' kindly quote irrefutable figures 
to substantiate his argument ?— Yours &c. 
YOUNG PLANTER. 
ENTOMOLOGY— AND ITS LOCAL 
APPLICATION. 
Deab Sib,— Re the question of an Entomologist 
for Ceylon, if there is no way of securing the 
services of an expert who should both teach and 
practice in Ceylon, our Agriculturists could not 
do beter than become members of the Royal 
Agricultural Sooiety o( England, the annual 
subscription to which is only £1. Tbe members 
are entitled to many privelegee, and anent the 
question of the day I append a cutting from tbe 
la6t journal : — 
MEMBEBS' ZOOLOGICAL PRIVILEGES. 
Tbe Council have fixel tbe charge of Is for information 
respecting any animal (quadrated, bird, insect, worm, 
&c.) which, In any stage of its life, sflects the farm, or 
rural economy generally, with su/geatious as to methods 
of prcveotion and remedy in respect to any such animal 
which may be injurious. 
In inquiries concerning injuries, specimens of the Injury 
• on- should accompany the animal supposed to cause it. 
All specimens should be sent in tiu or wooden boxen, 
or in quills, so as to prevent injury in transmission, and 
must be accompanied by the prescribed fees. 
Parcels or letters containing specimens (carriage or 
postage paid) must be addressed to Mr Cecil W&rbarton, 
M.A., Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge. 
The Entomologist. 
He's coming o'er from England across the foam- 
ing sea, 
And with him comes a cargo-load of poisons 
That he used against the weevil, ihe beetle and 
the bee. 
Who will bless him, now he's gone, in their orisons. 
The paddyflies start groaning and the caterpillars 
moaning, 
And 1 1 -lop., lu - shivers on the Tea, 
The Coconut beetles sigh and redspider wipes his eye 
When tbey hear the talk of En-to-mol-o-gee— 
There's that Eerosine Emulsion that's warranted to 
burn, 
And horrid London Purple, Paris green, 
And many other nostrums that will give as quite 
a turn. 
We must keep a sharp lookoat but not be seen, 
Good Planters ! do desist ; why would you thus 
persist 
In plotting to exterminate our rac* ? 
But whist I whist I whist I here's the En-to-mol-o-gist 
So let's lie low and never show a face. 
BUMBLE BEE. 
CEYLON TEA IN AMERICA : 
the call fob pbize e3says ; and how to work in 
amebica : 
the eebious crieib afpboaching if the pbices 
continue to fall, 
Upcountry, June 28. 
Deab Sib, — If you think my offer of a Prize no* 
likely to be productive of any good or as now too 
late, you may withdraw it, provided you can 
satisfy yourself with a sufficient reason for doing so. 
I will then contribute the amount to help to push 
our teas in America as may be deoided upon. * 
I am quite of your opinion that the bounty of 
about £2,0C0 is a farce, and I am not in favor 
of ' drummers ' who take orders or cadge for such, 
unless directly employed by private firms or 
individuals. 
As a planting body our work should be through 
Shows, LeciureB and Press articles. The Show 
we might accomplish through Mr. A. E Wright ; the 
Lectures, however, would be weak (all are not 
born lecturer?) and the Press untouched or un- 
influenced to any good purpose. Sir J. Grinlinton 
would meet the first two requirements. You alone 
are able to meet all these conditions. Is it out 
of the question that you can arrange to go ? I 
fear you cannot find a substitute here, to manage 
the Observer, Tropical Agriculturist, &o ? 
* After this was written, the first " Essay " from 
a planter, reached our correspondent's hands and he 
telegraphed : — " Essay received ; Prize stands if 
Essays are forthcoming."— Ed. T.A. 
