THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Oct. i, 1894. 
Mr, E. N. Howard who, after acme experience of 
fruit-growing in California, settled with his brother 
in Gec.rgia, where they have purchased a farm with 
a good house, and are grazing cattle and hogs, grow- 
ing a little maize, wheat and cotton, as well a* fruit 
for which there is a ready sale. They consider that 
with about £500 a fair start with good promise of 
success may be made in their district. The thermo- 
meter does not go higher than 95° in the summer. 
The winters are often warm, but subject to occasional 
"cold snaps," when they get some snow and sledging. 
Messrs. Howard would receive a student or two, 
who might wish to look about them before settling, 
on very moderate terms for board and lodging. 
EHis Blyth is about to join them. 
"We have received a letter from Mr E.J.Windham, 
De Clare, Bloosomin, f'anadi, stating that he «oald 
be glad to receive another student as partner in his 
half-section (320 acres.) He writes that he has now 
been three years in Canada, and the longer he stays 
tlie more he likes it. 
As a furthtr iodioation of work done, we qucts: — 
Mr. Hedges, c.e., has earned well-merited praise 
this term for the energy with which he has conducted, 
the work of his department. At all hours he ha3 been 
ready to help any student who showed interest in his 
important profession. The log bridge, the model of 
roof, etc., by Stevenson, and tbe excellent class work 
by some students, are indications of much good and 
thoughtful work. 
Professor Heatly has also ha ! a most interesting 
term. He and his class at the time of writing are 
engaged in Practical Examinations, and in an 
enquiry into alleged poisoning of cattle by the com- 
mon brake fern. 
Among the gen:ral information given is an aecount 
by tbe Earl of Glssjtow of a visit to one o! the 
largest and most notable farms in New Zealand. 
Ia tbe course of it wo hrwe the fo lowing inter- 
esting fact: — 
The increase of red clover in this colony is a very 
remarkable thing. At first it was not a success, but 
tbe experiment of introducing the bumble bee was 
tried by the Acclimatisation Society, and it is claimed 
that the wonderful spread of clover during the last 
few years is the work of that insect in carrying and 
fertilizing the seed. There are fields of pasture 
everywhere where the red clover is spreading year by 
year in the most wonderful manner. 
Finally, we may mention an t'Od Studen's' Direc- 
tory" as a feature of "Co'on'a": the li.-t includes 
from ICO to 170 names, and erery British Depen- 
dency is represented in the adlreeses, as well as 
many parts of the United S.ates, Central and 
South America; while arnoig young Ceylon planters 
are four ex-students oi the College. Our wish for 
''Colonia" and the College it represents is for a 
long and prosperous career ai d increasing useful- 
ness year by year in the time to come. 
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THE TEA OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 
The tea of Chins, though we may suppose it the 
best, is nob the only pl>uit u eJ in that capacity in 
the world. In Merioo and G-uatim.la the lesv.s of 
quite a different pla it (Vsoralea gUmlulosa) are used 
as tea. I" the northern part- of the same continent 
there is what is culled Labrador tea, ma3e from the 
leaves of the GuaUheria procumbtns and Ledum lati- 
■folium. The m's famous of all Amer csn teas, liow- 
ever, is the tea of Paraguay, of which la'ge qua' titles 
are annually imported into P-.ru, Chili, and 'fce States 
of Buencs Ayres, and the ire of it is so univeisil ia 
South America, that the inhabitants have always some 
of tiii tea rearly prepared, whe her engage! in occu- 
pations at home or in tbe fields, and no person de- 
parts on a journer without being profiled with a 
quar.ti y of the h>rb. It is mncle> by merely pouring 
warm water on the le«»t'F, and is sipped through a 
silver or k'bss tube from a em '11 res el called a "Mate 
Pot" which is carried in the haud, or, should the 
parson be ou horseback or engaged in any oooupntion 
requir ng the use of hie hands, it is tnaperd»d from 
the neck by means of a small chain. 1 is frequently 
mixed With a little letnon ]u.ce. aDd is ued either 
with or without eug.tr. Many European traveller* 
prefer this to an., of the teas impored from China. 
The Paraguay tea is the more remarkable, from its 
bring the pro luce if a srecirs of bolly, a gcru- 
hitherto considered as deleterious. Tliia pUnt has an 
extensive geographical range, le<ng found in tie woody 
regions of Paraguay, watered by 'he Parana, Ypaoe, 
an I Jejni ; in the province of the Almas Uerae*, aiid 
other ail r ets of Bra/. and it appears to have been 
found iu Guiana. Ths tree isateut 'be sire of 'he 
orange-tree, to which it bears c>nsi ertble re-eui- 
blance iu its habit auJle-Vr*. The fl'>wrrs are white, 
are te'raodrous, and are succeed. J by gcar et berru-a, 
like tho«e of ibe c mmon bolly. Tbe leaves, whether 
fresh or dried, are dta-itute of smell; bat, on a little 
warm water being p' u'ed upon them, ibey exhale an 
agreeable odour. Mr. Lambert has teen so fortunate 
as to ol tain a living plant if this bigbly interesting 
tree, wbicb is low grow ng in his colh ction at Baytoo 
House, Wi t- In Ke* Holland tbe learee of' tbe 
Cornea alba m*ke very good tea. The inhabitant* of 
tbo»o barren and remote islands denominated the 
Kurile Iblee, iu the s j a of Kamtsebatka, prepare a 
t a from an uudescribed 6pec ee of 1'edvcularit. Many 
other aromatio herbs of the order I.abiatos are used 
as tta iu different coontrie-'.— Derby Comet, 
JACKSON'iS NEW PATENT " PARAGON " 
TKA DRYER. 
Mr. Georje Reid of M-leug Tea Ks'a'e, A-**ro 
row sends a further report to Mes-ra Marshall. Sons 
AC".. Limit' d. upon this nc» machine after working 
it for several months as follows: — "I have much 
pleasure in sUting that I am as much p eased with 
the Paragon Drwrasever. I rind that it ought to be 
ele<ned out ev rj week, i.e. the Boot Chambers ; 
formerly, when we were on'y having amnll daje, we 
oleanvd it out orce a fortaigh*. but la'terly working 
12 to 14 hours a day, we found it very hard to keep 
up tbe beat unless clemed out once a we-eV. The 
machine has giveu as no troarle wbatever rinse it 
was < rected. On tte whole, tbe machine is a good 
one and lean safely recommend it."— Indian Planters' 
Gazette. 
THE MANILA HEMP TRADE OF 1893. 
Falling-off in Expobts. 
Mr. W. Stigand, Her Majesty's Consul at Manila, 
in his comni rcial report to the Foreign Offioe for 
the year 1893, givei ths following particulars of the 
hemp trade at that port — Thete has bean a de- 
crease of 149,037 bales or 17,604 ton9 in the expert 
of hemp, the export having be-n 041,471 biile* of 
80,183 tons in 1893, agaiust 790,508 ba.es or 18,814 
tons in 1892. The average price of bemp f >t the 
year was 7 - 50 dols. per picul, which ie low -r V an it 
was iu 1892, when prices ruled from 8 dols. to 9 d Is. 
from the beginning: of the year to September, when 
it advanced to 10"75 dols., end remained at this 
valuation till the end of the year. The year 1892 «as 
the year in which the greatest q lantity of hemp was 
exported from the Philippini s >ince the superiority 
of Manila hemp has teen recognised in English ;.nd 
American markets. The comm?roe in this a r t ; c'e, 
the chief product until la'ely of ihe inlands, has ilm oat 
entirely in rtc nt years been in the bands of the 
E g'ish merohants, owing to tbtir reliance o". the 
superiority of Manila he n;j anc on its ready accept- 
ance by foreign pu'chaseis. The producers in the 
provinces, however, formerly forwarded their hemp 
to the capital insufficiently dried and in an oth'-rwise 
unprepared state, and frequent complaints from pur- 
chasers were received of the deteriorated q-iality of 
the bemp. A'armed at the da* ger thus threatening 
the repntatiou of Manila hemp, th chief export hous's 
of Manila united togetb.tr a^d published a circular by 
