THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[Ncv. i, 1894. 
Already, not a few Ceylon-trained planters 
are leading the way in German as well as 
British East Africa, ami very many more are 
bound to follow ; for Ceylon is the best train- 
ing-school in the world for the Ironical plantar, 
and its lierodical-instructor, the J'r'ijiinil 
Agrii.ttlturist, is sent right round the world 
every month with the latest information avail- 
able in respect of new and old products. 
I have one sad piece of news to give in con- 
clusion, namely, the death at Kandy on the 
night of June 17th, of one of the Egyptian 
exiles, Mahmud Fehmi Effendi, the engineer 
officer p<ir excellence of the band, who designed 
the earthworks at Tel-el-Kebir, and who was 
about the most respected of Arabi's lieutenants. 
Indeed, he was supposed to have rather a 
contempt for Arahi himself. Mahmoud Fehmi 
distinguished himself in Ceylon by doing a good 
deal of literary work, translating into Arabic 
Rollin's " History of the World." He always 
expressed himself well-satisfied with his resi- 
dence in the island and sneered at the grumbling 
of his old conipapioris-in-arnis, most of which 
he considered due to idleness. His w idow and 
family are in Egypt— all but the youngest son, 
who is entered as a student of medicine at the 
Medical College, Colombo. One oilier exile, 
Abdullah Helmy Effendi, died here about two 
years ago. There now remain 
Ahmad Arabi Effendi, 01 Haloluwa Road, 
Kandy. 
Mahmoud Samy Effendi, 3 Trincomalie Street, 
Kandy. 
Ali Fahmy Effendi. s Gregory Road, Kandy. 
Yacoob Samy Effendi, 12 Lake Road, Kandy. 
Toulba Ismat Effendi, 5 Gregory Road, Kandy. 
John Ferguson. 
QUININE IN INDIA. 
It is ann< uaced tha f . the Assam Government has 
deuded to introduce in lb.- plains d's'ricts a schema 
tor the salrt ol quiuiue similar to that which hae 
been succes-fullv ndop'ei) iu Bengal. Wi'h the 
'auction <t tli e Government of India aod the concur- 
rence of th' Lieutonant-Gjvernor of Bengal, a supply 
of quinine wi 1 be procured Iroaa 'be Insfiector-Geu!-ra) 
of Jails, Cub utta, nnd kept in pice packets for dis- 
tribution to the VHrious post offices at two ceutral 
dei oti in Tezpur and S ; lhet. Tiie scheme is to be 
regarded as experiment'il, and for tie presut the 
bale of quinine will be re:tricted to those sub and 
branch pott-offices in the neighbourhood of which 
dispensaries do not exist. — 31. Mail. 
BOLIVIA AND ITS RESOURCES. 
Bolivia is a country of extraordinary natural re- 
sources ; but thus far they are unavailable. George 
Earl Church, in commenting on what he witnessed 
in Bolivia in 1867, writes as follows :—" I found mil- 
lions of sheep, llamas, and alpacas browsing upon 
the mountain-sides, and not a cargo of wool was ex- 
ported ; vast herds of cattle roamed the plains and 
yet an ox-hide was worth scarcely more than a pound 
of leather in the European markets ; hnndreds of 
tons of tbe richest coffee in the world were rotting 
on the bushes, a^d only about ten tons per annum 
were sent abroad as a rare deiicacy; abundant crops 
of sugar in the river districts were considered "a 
misfortune by the planter because there was no 
market ; the valleys of Cochabamba were rich in 
certal wiakh, unsaleable when the crop was too 
great for home consumption ; not a valley or 
mountain-side but gave agricultural, medicinal, 
or other products such as commanded ready 
Bale in any foreign market ; sixty-five kinds of rare 
and leau'iful cabinet-woods stood untouched by man 
in the gr^at virgin forests of the north and east. The 
mountairs were weighted down with silver, copper, 
tin, and other metals, aud tbe people pezing upon 
a wealth Eufficn • t to pay the national dtb'e of the 
wcrld, and yet unava lab'e for lack of a mesne of 
communication. There v. as abundant evidence that 
n"t a river thatc«rried its waters <r<m Boliva to the 
Amazon, but washed ttuough auriferous deposits aa 
rich as any in California rr Australia, and for lack 
of power 'o take n;uch.nery to tl em ih«-y did not 
produce £60,000 pfr annum, where tbey ought to 
have produce 1 millions." 
Adrniaing that the author of this quotation may 
have been blessed with that large faith in things 
unseen which is probably craractfiistic <f most 
explorers, Bolivia must still be very rich poten- 
tia'ly. But hui dreds of tuns tf cefft-e rotting on 
the bushes, and millions of nnsborn fleeces on 
the sheep, will not help to pay tbe in'erest on 
b"uds. AVere tb< re ro <'eDeidei.ee hut r-o'emui re- 
roii'ces the propped w< uld uot le c conrat.ii p. 
But the real z>-d resoune» of B"li» i« a-* alo con- 
siderable. No country illustrated a sa'ii-ti'a! cbaca 
eo well ue Boli'ia, unl is it may be some country 
that keep* no official records o'. any kind, aod marly 
ev.-ry thing known in ri lation to production and tiade 
must be a result of ; u ...-.,.■•■< 1.. By tbix inelbcd of 
c mputation the internal nf domest'c commerce of 
Bolivia, however, is estimated at $100,000,000 sLontlly 
at this time, and the total foreign trade, export* ai d 
imports, at over §32,000,000. A« to tbe v»lue of the 
national wr alth a* a bisis (or taxation, it is probable 
that no estimate bas ever bef-n ma'e There must 
he some means for app< rtioninir in- tax |. v« . hat if 
• he tval valuations have ev. r teen publish d the 
lifcutes arj nut accessible. —India Rubber World. 
DESICCATED CUCONUT. 
Mr. Robert Bruce fas at last acquired th e 
se. 1 ct of desiccating coconut m that it shall r*tain 
its full flavor, a while color and net be to) ready 
to absorb the rco sture and become n.i dtwi. 
Thessmp'iB he haa brought in are urqu>siiou- 
ab.y «qual to anything imported. It is ho| od 
Mr. Bruce's effort- will meet with prosperity at 
last, and that his d«s:ccating cccouut faott ry will 
beooune an important manufactory in our midst. — 
Torres Straits Pilot. 
THE NEW SOUTH WALES SUGAR CROPS. 
D^lgetty's Monthly Renew says :— Tte caiie cutting 
season, which commenced last month, will not te so 
long a? usual, la the Clarence district, besides the 
■Hurwood mill, only ore or two small mills will be 
worked. TheClarei.ee jield ia estimated by tbe !o-al 
press at about 55,000 tons of cane. Aa regards the 
Richmond Riv r r, tbe season will bo much heavier, 
owing to the disease uot having worked such deduc- 
tion in p s". years there aa o" the Clarence. It is ex- 
pcctel that tbe Broadwater (Richmond) mill will put 
through abou' 80,000 tons of caBe, and ihe other mills 
30,000. The Oonaong mill on the Tweel will crush 
about 30, 0U0 tons, and other mills not mentioned 20,000 
tons. The total \iclJ of tbe colony will be somewhere 
about 230.0U0 tons, which is sua Lei than in previous 
years. Next j ear, if tbe disease does not play scch sad 
hav03 with the crop as it has done during thepist few 
years, tbe return should be ueirly twice that figure. 
INDIAN TEA : MR. BLECHYNDEN'S WORK 
IN AMERICA. 
Mr. Blechynden arrived in New Yo7k oa tbe 20;h 
of June, and has since been, busily engaged in expos- 
ing that city and Brooklyn iu the interests of the 
Ii d an tei trade. Regular weekly reports, giving evi- 
dence of satisfactory progress, have b en received 
f rom him by the Committee of tbe Indian Tia Associa- 
tion, L'-ndou, who write that tbe lines on which he is 
proceeding appear to be «ound, and the evidence so f»r 
Bfforded by tbe work he has done 6ee us to show that 
tool results may fairly be anticipated to follow, and 
