Jan. i, 1895.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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District. Name of estate. N am e rf pur- 
chaser 
Amount 
puid. 
Haputale Cabbragalle Sir George Pil- 
kington B75,000 
Jaffna Arialai Gassipillai R46.500 I 
Passara Kitoolkelle Capt. Hamilton 
Gordon B10,000 
Panadure Perth Capper, Tarrant, 
and Figg E110,000 
Badulla Cry Nahavilla Estate 
Co., -Ltd. £5,500 
Kandy Exmouth II. L. Thornton Rl 5,000 
Amba- Ceylon Tea Planta- 
gamuwa Bloorufield tions Co. £600 
Rahgalla KanweUe JB. J. Young £200 
Pusscllawa Galatta A. E. Tunnicliffe R60,000 
Do. L'Espoir do. R26,O00 
Hantaue Augusta H. Wills £6,500 
Gampola Mount Temple Camm £1,000 
Dumljera Karaudagalla T. J. Lipton £6,000 to 
£7,000 stg. 
Dimbula Bismark A.M.Forbes £7,600 
Haputale Nahaville R. C. Wright R2,000 
Negombo Walgapola Oliveira R62,500;/t 
Kelani Ivies W. F. M. Reid 
Valley R33.000 
Ve} - angoda Moropolle Philipp R30,000/h 
Maturatta Wattemoole Clovis de Silva E6,000 
Kadugan- Frankland and 
nawa Church Hill E. Long £2,400 
Chilaw Holanduwane Ceylon Tea Plan- 
tations Co., Ld. R69,000wt 
Ambaga- Blackstone The Blackstone 
muwa Co., Ld. E160,000 
Udapussel-Tulloes The Standard Tea 
lawa Co. of Ceylon £5,000 
Kurune- 43 acres planted Mrs. Jeronis 
gala land Pieris Rl5,000/n 
Nuwara 10 acres laud on 
Eliya Nanuoya road E3,900 
Kelani Stinsford W. Mackenzie & 
Valley Forsyth E67,500» 
Badulla Eookatenne W.H.Hannarn E7,000 
WatteganieNikattenne E. L. F. de 
Soysa, E15,C00 
Veyan^oda Talahala E. de SiTva B18.000 
a Total about 2* acres of land with four buildings 
being at the rate of about E8,320 per acre, b At the 
rate of ES 7,040 per acre, c Average E5,S00 per acre. 
d subject to primary mortgage for E32,8%. e Co- 
conuts and cinnamon. /Average per acre E26. 
g Average per acre B34'70. h Tea and coconut. 
* Leasehold interest, j Extent 540a. lr. 18p. k 000 
acres with cast iron pipes and spouting for irrigation 
purposes. I Coconuts, m coconut ; n a half share has 
since been sold by Mr. Mackenzie at a profit of 
115,000. 
THE BARK OF THE MANGROVE. 
Notice is given in the Coylon Government Gazette that 
an application has been received from Mr. G. R. Murray, 
of 8, Central Chambers, 11, Bothwell street, Glasgow, 
Scotland, on behalf of Crawford's Cutch Company, 
Limited, for the exclusive right of collecting, for the 
purposes of manufacture by the Company, the bark of 
the Mangrovo (Kadol) growing in Crown land in a dis- 
trict of the island to be hereafter determined, and is 
under theconsideration of Government. It is proposed 
to grant this concession on the fallowing terms : — 1. 
The concession to be for fifteen yoars. 2. In con- 
sideration thereof, the Government to receive a 
royalty of ten shillings per ton of manufactured 
cutch exported from the island, provided that after 
twelve months from the date of the concession, the 
manufacturers must have begun work, and that a 
minimum of one hundred tons per annum be ex- 
ported by the Company thereafter, (i.e., in the second 
year of "the concession), otherwise the concession to 
cease. 3. No similar concession on more favourable 
terms to be granted in any other districts during 
the stipulated fifteen years, and 110 similar conces- 
sion at all for a period of two ye.vrs. • 
FRUITS. 
The United States raised last year 140,000,000 
bushels of apples, 30,000,000 bushels of peaches, 
and 7,000,001) bushels of pears, cherries, apricots 
plums and prunes ; 187,000,000 bushels of tropical 
fruits. Apples are produced in nearly every state 
and territory in the Union. Ohio leads with 
13,789, 2S7 bushels, while North Dakota had only 
six bushels. The summary given by the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture is exceedingly interesting. 
It shows that production of nearly all leading 
fruits is possible in almost any part ol the United 
States. — Rural Calif urn ian. 
MYSORE COFFEE PLANTING. 
South Mysore, Dec. 14. — As crops are not generally 
big ones, the natural consequence is a well developed 
bean and little light coffee as compared with a 
bumper year. I have never seen a better wood or 
prospects for the coming season than this year, and 
with ordinary luck in showers most estates will give 
a very good account of themselves in crop 1895-96. 
Coffee crop in Mysore appear to have got into a 
groove : they run in cycles of a big crop followed by 
a medium or small one, then another big one, and so on. 
The coffee seems to require a rest every other year. — 
Madras Mail. 
THE BLACKSTONE ESTATE COMPANY, 
LIMITED. 
The Ceylon Government Gazette contains the memo- 
randum and articles of Association of this Company 
which has been bound to acquire the Blackstone estate, 
situated in the Ambagamuwa District with a capital 
of R130,000, divided into one thousand three hundred 
shares of R100 each, with power to increase or reduce 
the ca^pital. The memorandum and articles are signed 
by Messrs. G. J. Jameson, by his attorny F. Macindoe, 
P. Macindoe, W. Shakspeare, J. N. Campbell, J. 
Buchan, V. A. Julius, by his attorney H. Creasy and 
W. H. Davies. The Company will take over the 
estate as from the 1st January 1895. Messrs. Carson 
& Co., are to act as Agents. 
NEWS OF MR. EDMUND WOODHOUSE . 
We have a letter from Mr. Edmund Woodliouse 
dated 2nd Dec. from Dereema estate, Tanga, he 
having been taken on there by Mr. Cowley for six 
months. He explains that after a couple of months 
at Zanzibar, the Consulate finally came to the con- 
clusion that it was not in its power to help him 
up to Uganda or do anything for him to that 
end. On his part he was unwilling to spend the 
whole of his funds on the journey and run the 
risk of being stranded in Central Africa. The 
Sultan's Government could do nothing until the 
question at issue between the I. B. E. A. Company 
and the British Government is somehow settled, 
and it is decided what is to become of the coun- 
try lying between Uganda and the Sea Coast. 
So finding that Mr. Maudcsley wa-< being in- 
valided home he went over to see the German 
Company and was advised to see Mr. Cowley 
who has taken him on for 6 months. Of course 
he has not given up the idea of Uganda and 
the Lakes, but will have to wait a while. 
" Coffee Plantehs' Maxval: New Edition."— Mr. 
Huttonbach, Selangor planter, left in the " Austra- 
lia" this afternoon after a very pleasant stay at 
Kan lv.— He speaks in the highest terms of our 'new 
edition, " Coffee Planters Manual," a 0/ 0 ich. 
he has been studying. 
