Nov. ij 1894.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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for daily use from 
GEO. AND H. DON 
of Madnlkellie ; they kept a small store and butohery, 
and on Saturdays I sent to Kandy, 22 miles distance 
by short-cut, to Abraham Saibo & Co., the first of 
that name— the original Abram Saibo— that supplied 
Elanters with bread, beef, &c, who used to smoke 
is hookah with repose and dignity at his shop 
doors. I must confess at times I felt lonely and 
ead, and I wondered if the rain would ever stop 
or erer bright sunny days would gladden the place 
again and make me feel more happy and consented. 
Then again it was difficult to dry the parchment, 
we had to keep putting it out and takirg it in again 
ever so many times in a day. At last the clerk 
of the weather issued his commands— a dry north- 
east wind set in, the sun shone out in great splen- 
dour, and we all rejoiced— coolies, self and my 
monkey "Jaoko" also ; and one evening to my surprise 
I heard 
H0RSB9 FEET ON THE BARBAQUE, 
and lo and behold! a white face turned np who 
proved to be the late steward of the barque I came 
out to Ceylon in from the old country. I was not 
sorry he was a hardy chap, could make bread and 
cook almost equal to Hons. Soyer himself. He was 
a Teuton and called himself Augustus Fredericks, but 
I called him only Fred: 
Cinchona. — As forecast in our last Trade Report, thti 
week's cinchona-auctions were rather heavier than usual. 
The catalogues numbered nine, and the total number of 
packages specified in them was as follows:— 
PLANTING IN JAMAICA: 
Coffee and Tea in Ceylon. 
Our old friend, Mr. Wm. Sabonadiere, writing from 
the Blue Mountains, Jamaica, has the following 
about coffee aod tea : — 
" I am truly so"ry to read Dr Trimen's opinion that 
' Hemileia Vastatrix ' is sooner or later likely to 
spread to all ooffee producing countries, and it is my 
opinion that the Governments of suoh countries should 
exclude all plants coming from Ceylon, in wardian 
oases or otherwise, and should also take preoaution, 
as ia now done here to destroy the ooverings of all 
tea chests coming from Ceylon, by having them 
burnt by the Customs' authorities immediately on 
arrival. Anyhow, any coffee growing oountry, that 
escapes the longest, being like in other oases, ' the 
survival of the fittest ' should reap a great benefit ; 
for prices will be very ' fanciful ' indeed. Even 
now I am glad to see at late sales, that some of our 
Blue Mountain coffee Was kept back for better 
prices. 
" The gilt Beems oertainly to have been taken off the 
tea-growing enterprise, because the tea average has 
bo been lowered in the last few years, and it would 
be wise to refrain from planting any more tea in 
India and Ceylon, until America and Russia became 
large consumers and there was no fear of production 
overtaking consumption. I was glad to note the 
China and Japan war was sending up tea prices ; it 
is an ill-wind that blows no one any good. 
"Arntully is for sale, as I am now getting old, and 
find the work a little too muoh for me, if we 
sucoeed in sslling, I toope to end my last years in 
Guernsey." 
We sinoerely trust that this veteran Ceylon and 
Jamaioa coffee planter may make a gcod sale, 
and may have many years before him in the 
beautiful aod salubrious Channel island to enjoy 
hsi well-earned rest from planting labours. 
Ceylon cinchona 
East Indian cinchona .. 
Javan cinchona 
West African cinchona 
South American cinchona 
PaoKages Packages 
625 o£ which 347 were sold 
1061 
85 
534 
120 
2428 
401 
470 
120 
1426 
The average quality of the Eastern barks was very 
poor, only a few lots of good Officinalis and Ledger 
cinchonas being offered. Several hundred packages of the 
Ceylon aud Indian hark were of old import, and held by 
second-hand owners. These were nearly all bought in. 
African barks did not sell so readily as at the last 
sales. There was very little competition, and pile after 
pile was bought in, with scarcely as much as a Lid 
made for it On the whole, the result mu3t be descri- 
bed a* m-atisfactory, and !some slight decline took place 
in the unit value, which is now barely Jd per lb. 
The following are the approximate quantities of bark pur- 
chased by the principal buyers :— 
Lb. 
61,981 
66,666 
44,203 
33,892 
12,590 
Agents for the Frankfort works 
Messrs. Howards & Sons 
Agenti for the Brunswick works 
Agents for the American works 
Agents for the Auerbach works 
Agents for the Mannheim and Amsterdam works . . 8,590 
Agents for the Paris works .. .. .. 4,760 
Sundry druggists and others . . . . . . 73,703 
DRUG REPORT. 
(From Chemist and Druggist.) 
London, Sept. 20th. 
CiTFEiNB has bcou very difficult to obtaiu from the 
makers lately, although the price still remains what it has 
boon for a,' long time, namely 7s 91 per lb. Itw.mll 
that thcro ii » great scarcity of the raw matorial. 
Total quantity of bark soil 
Bought in or withdrawn 
£96,385 
2j0,240 
Total quantity of bark offered. . .. 556,625 
It should bo remembered that the quantity of bark 
bought affords no indication of the amount of sulphate of 
quiuine represented by the purchase. 
The following prices were paid for sound bark: — 
Ceylon Cinchona— Original— Red varieties : Dull, dusty, 
stem chips Id; fair to good bright shavings ljd to 2Jd ; 
dusty root lgd per lb. Grey stem ch:ps, dull, woody, lfd 
to ljd ; fair stem shavings 2|d per lb. Dull yellow stem 
chips Jd to 1-J-d per lb. Hybrid stem shavings ljd to 2id • 
chips lfd per lb. Renewed— Red varieties : Dull, dusty 
to fair bright stem chips ljd to 2jl ; fine stem shavings 
3d to 3fd per lb. Pair to good bright jrrey stem chits 
3fd to 4£d per lb. Yellow stem chips, dull to fair 1M 
to 2g per lb. Hybrid item shivings ifd to »f 1 ; chips 2id 
to 2£d per lb. 
Essential Oils.— The principal feature in the essential 
oil market this week has been a kind of " run " on oil 
of cassia, the spot quotation of which has advanced from 
3s 2d or 3s 3d per 10., at which it stosd la^t Thursday, 
to 3s" 8i per lb. Some holders will not sell, they say 
below 3s 9d per lb., and we hear that bids of 3s 8d 
have been rejected. For shipment 3s 2d per lb. c.i.f. was 
the quotation until a few days ago, but at present there 
Is nothing offering from first hands. On 'Change today 
20 cases sold at 3s 6d per lo., aud afterwards 3s 8d per 
lb. was reported paid. The low quotations of American 
oil of peppermint appear to have attracted attention. 
Several buyers have cjme into the market, and the spot 
price has nuw risen to 10s 6d per lb., at wheb, however 
only a fe>» cases are offered. For Ootober chipment 10s 
31 per lb. c.i.f. is the asking-price. Mail reports from the 
States, dated September 8th, say that large ifferiugs of 
new crop have lowered the price still further, and caees 
can now be bai at $2'25 to $2-30, as to quantity. Wayne 
Cjuuty in tins tffers at .$r75, and Western at Sl-ti0. 
Spearmint oil offers at $1-50, 'hough $l - 25 might buy. 
Staranise oil has quickly recovered from its little depression 
cf last week. There are no longer any sellers of oil on 
the spot at 6s tod per lb., 7s, in fact, has again been 
paid. For October-December shipment 7s has been paid. 
The rise in exchange is mainly responsible for this advance. 
Nothing appears 10 be an offe.- for early shipment. Leniou- 
grass oil is quoted on the sp t at 1J l per oz., and Citron- 
eila at 10J-d per lb. for fj,ir native brands. A parcel of 
Cajuput oil was told at Amsterdam recently et 115c (equal 
to is lid) per bottle, local market terms. 
Quinine. — The market is drugging, and although 12d 
por oz. is the uomiuul quotation for second-hand German 
bulk, it might be possloie, perhaps, to buy at lljd per 
oz. There is a report that 10,000 oz. Auerbach quiniuc 
sold yesterday at uj 1 per oz., which would be a very 
fair price, but we have not been able to get this rumoar 
Bonfirmed. At the mcetiug of the Soekaboemi (Java) Agri- 
cultural Association on July 14th nut (the same gather- 
ing at which occurred the poetic iucidout to which re- 
ference is made on another page), some interesting bCate- 
ments were made concerning the qtiiuine-syudleato, la 
