Sept. i, 1894.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
JAVA TEA AND DUTCH TEA 
CONSUMPTION. 
To the Editor of the Home and Colonial Mail. 
Sir,— At present when bo much interest ia beiug 
arouse 1 in the opening up of fre3h outlets lor 
tea consumption, I tldnk some impori ant e uny attach 
to the following figures regarding the position of the 
Java lea trade in Holland, about which I think we 
are a little iu ignorance on this fide. The figures 
are tiken from the " Jaaroverziohteu des H^ndiis 
in KoUn'iale Pioducteu," or "Anr.usl Review of 
Colonial Products," publ shed in Amsterdim (1893;. 
(a) Exports of Javo Tta, with Destination?. 
(000 omitted.) 
1890 91 
lb. 
2,270 
5,155 
27 
36 
To Netherlands 
To EngUuu 
To Eurjpe (elsewhere) 
To Austi alia and Persia 
7,170 
9,400 
of Java 
say 7 488 
Approximate Import and consumption 
Tta in Holland. 
1884 ... about 1,500,000 lb. 
89 ... about 2,500,000 lb. 
91 (Exceptional) about 1,500,000 lb. 
93 ... about 3,000,0ti0 lb. 
Note— Roughly speaking import and oonsumptiou 
k pt On about u level. 
Eiotn the above it would appear thit — 
(1) The total Java products tends to augment. 
(t) About half the tut .1 crop comes to England. 
(3) Dutch consumption tends on taiance to increase . 
(4) The piojur.iou of the Java production go.ng to 
Holland ten s ruher to augment. 
The average price realised at auction for ail Java 
tea sold in Amste.uam iu 1893 w,s 38i c uts or 
iu-t about 7^1 (7 70d) ptr lb.— Iam, jours laithful.y, 
Geo. Setjn. 
126, Bisrupsgnte Street, E.C., 
27th July 1894.— It. and C. Mail. 
VARIOUS PLANTING NOTES. 
Opening Land in Tbavancore.— It is now stated 
that, in purchasing the- large block of ia:id fiomthe 
North Trauvancore Association, Messrs, Finlay, 
Muir & Uo. have no intention of plant ng tea, bat 
propose to cpeu up the mote suitable portions in 
eoffee, both Lib:risn and Arabica. We tiucerely hope 
this nny turn out to be the cue, though we cm 
liardly credit the statement made to us that a well- 
known Travuncore planter, becoming so di'gustel 
with the price? realized for his teas in Loudon, has 
decided to root out his tea to make way for cjffee. 
Labor there is, of course, scarce, and not very effici< nt ; 
but it is a little difficult to believe that tea does not 
pay hnnr'somely, in spite of the somewhat low range of 
prices obtained for Travanoore teae.—" Times of 
Ceylon." 
The " Agricultural Gazette" of New South 
Wales, Volume V. Part 0. June 1894, has the 
f jllowirg contents : — 
Useful Au;tralian Plants, a Scen'ed Giass (Hie- 
rochloa rariflora, Hock I.) J. H. Maiden; Colonial 
TimbcB for Wine Ca*ks, J. H. Ma den ; Our Timber 
Trees and Forest Culture, W. MacDona d ; Noios 
on Diseases of Plants, Diseases cf the Bean ITsut, 
etc, N. A. Cobb ; A New Australian Fuugus, N. A. 
Cobb; Apple Cultu-e (conti. ue<1), A. H. Benjon ; 
the Vme^er l aud the Cellar, February and M.ivh, 
J. A. D.speisaie ; On the Choice of Art fioial Manures, 
Composition and Acticn of Manures, F. B. Guthrie ; 
Chemioal Notes, F. B. Qulhiie ; Report ou the 
Adtninistra' ion of the Diseased AnimuU and Meat 
Act; Praotical Ve^ttable-trowing, Directions for the 
mouth of July; Orchard Notes for July; General 
Notes : How to sivo Bauauas from Flying Foxes, 
Woruis in Fowls, Marketing the Clioco, Spotted Gum 
or W ood-paving, HiwkoBbury Agricultural College. 
A New Sugar Factory is to be ereoted in North- 
ern Indie, under the name of the Cawnpore Sugar 
Works, Limited, more than four lakhs of rupees 
having already been subscribed, and it is hoped 
that the fec'ory will be ready by the new year. — 
Sugar Cane, July 2, 
Tea Pests. — An article on this subject in 
the Indian Planters' Gazette deals particularly with 
mosquito blight and red spider among tea end 
the while borer in ceffee. It is pointed out that 
the mosquito is as minute bs a sandfly which 
it muah resembles, aid, if there is any real struc- 
tural affinity between the two, it is stated that 
the remedy is crude petroleum, the vapour of 
which sandflies cannot B'and. As to the application 
of the remedy our contemporary lecommends a 
badly-iffecteel patch being selected, down between 
the rows of which jute should be spread and the 
crude mineral thrown thereon by a common watering- 
pot. During the cold weather two applications per 
week would suffice, but during the rains the number 
of applications must be determined aocording to 
oircumstanceP. For red spider ppraying with a 
mixture cf carbolio and lime water is recommended. 
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