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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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7,500,000 bags but as the feeling an! the iDt-rests 
of tha coffte people there are now on the s de of 
higher prices it is by no uitaas impossible thai theil 
e^timntes are now too low, as they were three years 
ago too high. 
Consuming countries last reason managed very well 
with onh 4,300,000 bags f.oni Rio and Santoi, thinks 
to the iiberal supplies from other countries, and 
whether the present Rio and Santos crops yield 
6,500.000 or 7,500,000 bags ihe quantity is certain co 
far m txc sa of actual reqiiremeats of consumption 
wbeu we lock at the pro>-»\ble large quantity to be 
derived fcom Victoria and BahU ani the other coff „e 
piodi'cing countries of tha world. 
It is very certain also, th*t the surplus supplies o^er 
aud above the want3 of consumers will not be esgerly 
eoughi after by speculators, unless it should be that 
price run extremely low. On the other hand capital 
and speculati n prefer (0 seek ii. vestment ia many 
other lines of produce which now are running lower 
in value than ever kuown. 
It ia not difficult to reach the conclusion that, as 
the crops progress, a lower range of valuf s must be 
reached from month to month as supplies increa e, 
atd in the seoond balf of the Brazil crop, wtun com- 
petition dese'ops in the large quantities of Oen'ral 
Amt-rioan and West Indian coffees, a basis of values 
is likely to be established much below what anyoue 
would care to express in figures today ; lower, in (act, 
than the actual situation w uld warrant, as extrtmes 
iu coffee have been the rule for years b&ck.—Avwican 
Grocer. 
THE CEYLON TEA FUND. 
MEETING OF STANDING COMMITTEE. 
Minutes of proceedings of a meetina of the Stand- 
ing Committee of the "Ceylon Tea Fund" held at 
Kaudy on Friday, the 14th day of Sept. 1894. at 
8 45 a.m. 
Present :— Messrs. A. Melville White, (Chairman, 
Planters' Association of Ceylon;; A. Philip, (Secre- 
tary to the Planters' Association of Ceylon) ; Hon. 
Giles F. Wa.ker, M.L.C., (Kandy) ; Messrs. W. D. 
Gibbon, (Kandy); F. G. A. Lane, (Kandy); J. G. 
Crow, (Chairman, Pussellawa Planters' Association) ; 
Hugh Blacklaw, (Ambagamuwa) ; D, Kerr, (Chair- 
man, Ambagamuwa Association) ; R. S. Duff Tytier, 
Honorary Secretary, Pussellawa Association) ; A. L., 
Cross, (Nuwara Eliya aud Kandy); A. C. Kingsford 
(Chairman, Kelani Valley Association). 
The notice calling the meeting was read. 
The minutes of proceedings of a meeting of the 
Committee held at Kandy on Friday, the 10th August 
1894 were submitted for confirmation. Resolved : — 
"That they be and they hereby are confirmed." 
Re- d letter Irom the Chairman, Ambtgamuwa Asso- 
ciation. 
Kend iett«r from Messrs. Chas. Straehan & Co. 
Read letter from the Honorary Secretarj , Dolosbage 
and Yackdf ssa Planters' Association. 
CEYLON TEA IN SAN FKANCISCO. 
Read letter from Mr. Harry Whitham. 
Read let! era from the Ceylon Tea Company, L'mited. 
ADVERTISING CEYLON TEA. 
Read le'.ter from the Manager, Ceylon Tea Kiosk. 
H a 1 let tar from Mr. J. H. Ren. on. 
Rsad letter from Mr. A- Thomson. 
liearl 1 tt rs f. om Mes-re. Walker, Sons & Co., LI. 
H 'sohed: — " Tl at tha sum of K500 be granted towar .a 
the proposed illuruii ation on the Ceylon IVa Kiosk lot- 
toe purpost- of adv r is:ng pure Ceylon te»." 
CEYLON TEA IN THE TRANSVAAL. 
Road letter Irom Mr. Alex. F. Sonter. making an 
application for 1 1 r*nt of C- ylon Wa for fre distri! u- 
tion in t'ie Sjuih African Republic. U. solved: — 
" That cousider ition of the questiou be referro 1 to the 
' Thirty Committee.' " 
CEYLON TEA IN RUSSIA* 
Read letter from Mr. M. Rogivue. 
Road bttera from Mosars. Wnittall & Co. 
CEYLON TEA IN QUEENSLAND. 
Read letter from Mr. M. B. Saoad. 
WINDING UP OF THE CEYLON TEA FUND. 
Resolved : — (I) " That whereas a join 1 : Committee of 
the Planters' Association of Ceylon and Ceylon Cham- 
ber ot Commerce for ihe purpose of pushing the sale 
of Oejlon Tea tn America and elsewhere, hereafter 
to be known as tbe " Thirty Conmittee," has been 
recently appointed, and an export duty for that pur- 
pose has bi-.?n imposed* on tea by the Government, 
this Committee deems it unnecessary to continue aa 
heretofore ;he pushing of Oeyl-u Tea by means of 
voluntary contributions. (II.) That at the next meet- 
ing of this Committee the questions of (1) the dis- 
posal of the b^lanoe cf i's funds, (2) the future 
supervision of the Tea Kiosk, (3) the dissolution of tbe 
Committee or its continuance lor purposes other than 
those for which the " Thirty Committee " has been 
appointed, ^e finally considered. (III.) That the Stand- 
ing Committee of the Tea Fund therefore preparatory 
to resigning, appoints Mr. John H, Slarey, and the 
Chairman and Secretary of the Planters' Assooiatiou 
of Oejlon, a Sub-Committee to draw op a report 
to be presented to next General Meeting of tbe 
Planters' Association. (IV.) That subscriptions on leaf 
gathered up to June 30th 1894 are however due to 
this Committee authorises the Honorary Trea- 
surer tn collect these as speedily as possible." 
The S anding Committee of the Ceylon Tea Fund 
then adjourned. 
A. PHILIP, 
Secretary to tho P.anters' Association of Ceylon. 
HAPUTALE REVISITED. 
AN OLD COFFEE PLANTERS' IMPRESSIONS. 
Matale, N.E., Sept. 20.h. 
I had the best intentions, on starting from this 
on the 3rd on a trip to Haputale, but those intentions 
so far, as writing to the papers, were knocked out 
of me, I saw so much and had so little spare time 
for writing you or any one else How the leading 
V.A.'s can manage to cover so much ground, go into 
all sorts of calculations as to cost of work, plan 
it, write long able reports on what has been done, 
what should be done, or left to another time, all 
seems very surprising to one unaccustomed to travel 
far rom his own estate. Vet I suppose they get 
used to it, aud enjoy it, and much prefer it to the 
Colombo office life — or even to that of days gone by 
when they used to look forward to the visit of 
their V.A. 
I am not going to write about V.A's, or their work 
but of my trip to the good old coffee district of 
Haputale — a combination of business aud pleasure — 
required that I should leave Matale by the 9-20 on the 
3rd, having come , over 14 miles that morning, to reach 
Haputale Pass the same night. The journey was from 
the land 01 cocoa aud sunshine, through the fiutss Ua 
in the world, on through the c< Id tle.'k and barren 
moors near Ambawel.a and Pa'apolla, through the 
dense and dripping forests of the Ohija Valley, but 
the grandeur of tne mountain scenery affords tetter 
matenal for the rep'.urous soog of the post, than 
piosy emanations Irom the psn of an old planter. 
My first red acquaintance with the Ohiya Valley 
was in 1872 when at my P. D.'a request I sent au 
application to thj then ;Ur. J. J. G., who wis the 
Uover. niotit Surveyor in liadulla to stnd surveyors to 
tue Valiey to cut out a blook of about 300 acrea and 
another of about SU which I wisbtd put up tor .-ale. 
Messrs. Coulter aud llaliiloy wero sent up and I 
accompanied ihem. Wo riggel np a hut for the 
ni^ht, bu> 1. more miserauly c^ld ni h ht I uever 
esyii ieLCed n Ceylon. At that time about 3,u00 acrea 
were satveyad in blocks of abjut 250 to 300 acres 
each, bat Government refused 10 put tnem up tor sale 
ah nough ' hey «oul 1 have probab.y fetchtd very good 
prices. The rea. ons given for not selling, were that 
tue then Government A&cnc objected to the streams 
leing polluted by the coffee pulp, and it waa possible 
