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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
Let Ceylon tea planters, however, take comfort 
in the fact, that there is still a very wide liehl in 
North America and the Continent of Europe (es- 
pecially in Russia.) for the supersession of China 
and Japan teas ; and let them note what Messrs. 
P. C. Larkin & Co. of Toronto, tell us in the. 
letter we gave yesterday, namely that there is 
no reason why the United States and Canada 
should not consume a few years hence, 2.50 million 
lb, cf puri Indian and Ceylon teas in place of 
the less than 10) million of inferior and adulterated 
China and Japan teas now used. 
TEA. 
(F..-0-n IFiUlm U> i i ,6 C's .Ui. L- • lt--j>rt.) 
C.VL'juri-A, Feb. 1 ith 18J5. 
O.i t'u Sib. initilt, 7,'i)) pij'.ci;:; war*] b;-o.ight 
forward an! sold. The quility was desirable, aud 
pricss l'ulel very firm, except for brokan p3kojs which 
wjre njt inu'ih in dew ml. 
China Tea. 
February 8i'i — '•E< t )orts to United Kingdom from 
commencement of sea ion to date s'lo-.v a decrease of 
7,900,009 lh. compared with tho corresponding psriop 
last year." 
We are favored by the Indian Tea Asso;iation with 
the following figurm, showing estiimtei And outturn 
of last years crop. 
Original Estimate of Chop of 1891. 
lb. 
A^l'll .. .. 52,17 i,H 50 
Cishvr .. .. 1.3,131,610 
S^lhsfc .. .. 21,216,62) 
Dvrje3ling .. .. 8,018,15) 
Tecai , .. .. 3,116,3)3 
Djou-3 .. .. 17,155,6^0 
C'ltttagoug .. .. 9J5.2JJ 
Oiiofca-Nigpore .. .. 23),0)> 
D jjira D iu, K nn ion nil Kuigv: 4, 501,01) 
Privato an I Nitive GixUnj • 4,0)),00) 
130,268,23.) 
ttsvisiiD EiruiATa of C.u? of 1 S H. 
lb. 
Assanl .. . . 53,567,0 35 
Oichir .. .. 18,793,512 
Sylhet .. .. 20,316,410 
DivjeaUng .. .. 7,039,953 
Terai .. .. 3,0(7,173 
DxJarst hJ .. 16,3(2,03) 
Chittagoug .i . . 917,737 
Chota-Nagpsre ■■ 165,157 
Kangra .. 3,351,103 
Drshra Dun ani Kuuiiori 2,030,000 
Private and Native Gardens 4,010,000 
Actual Outturn of Crop of 
.Assam . . . . 
CJachar . . 
'Sylhet 
JDarjeeling 
Terai 
D joars 
Chittagong 
Chota-Nagpore .. 
Kingra 
Dehra Dun and Kumion 
Private and Native Gardens 
133,036,520 
18)1. 
lb. 
53,169,838 
18,157,465 
19,625,680 
7,074,818 
2,995,311 
16,725,218 
853,333 
220,492 
2,000,0):) 
2,000,000 
4,000,000 
127,127,215 
The total shipmsnti to all place* from 1st April to 
31st January 1895 are • 116,870,257 lb: The exports to 
the Colonies and other Ports together with local 
consumption are not likely to exceed 12 millions 
which will leave about 115J million lb. fot export to 
Great Britain, 
VAU OU8 PLANTING NOTES. 
Iniuav T»A Cuop KOU I. —It will be Item 
from Me<srs. Win. Mor.tn ft Co.'s Report ■ in 
our Commercial c dumn that the erijflnal estimate 
of the Indian crop for 1894 was 180,5931289 Hi. 
The revise I estimate ... ... i'i3,(MiH,o20 ,, 
The actual result I 27, 127.21.5 
" Jalauanda Mimo»<keoua. '— Wem pleased 
to learn from Colonel Meadeu that two wnall 
plants of the above received from Pefadenlya 
Cardens about six months a^o, have no prospered m 
the compound of Mrs MeadenV new liottse 
("Warrington" occupied by Mr. Money) ' that 
they are now about 7 to 8 feet high and looi 
very vigorous. We shall look forward to their 
flowering with iute.e*t. 
Tea SwKEi'l.Mfss.— A Commit e; member of the 
P. A. (to whom we sent sa uple an I catalogue; 
writes that he showed the same to several influ- 
ential members and adds : — " It is too had and 
shows what these horrid Companies and others 
who are so fond of bulking our Bean make 
out of their constituents in ' tea sweeping*.' 
Messrs. Cow, Wilson and Stanton did wisely in 
chucking such constituents up." 
Cokkkk ix thk Aoras.- With coffee at R20 
per bushel, who will not fe ieitate the Agra*.' 
proprietors who hive ga he."e 1 in 4,86 V 4i ,R 00 
and 2,500 bushels respectiyely this Bea«on 1 Tho 
first i-i said to he Balmoral, the second Agra- 
Uva and the third Holbroo*. One would think 
suc'.i e dies trees worth conse.ving j b it we heir 
that some at IcRst must conic out to enable 
justice to be done to the ub'kiuitons tm; and 
thac the present big crop on pome fields h b oily 
conte after four years' waiting. 
S _,,,i. 
CoKFEE; AND AN OIL ENGINE.— It is like " a 
cure for sore eyes " to hear of a Colombo store 
and barbecue; be'.ng busy witn our old staple 
eoll'ee. This is the case at present in the 
Colombo Commercial Company s Store-. Slave 
Island, the temporary pressure exercising even 
the- supply of pickers, while the drying ac- 
e miniodation is tully occupied and the sifter- 
whirl merrily round.— A new and improved Oil 
Engine, " the Horusby-Akroyd,' is shortly to be 
exhibited at the saute Slave Island Store and 
work-;. It is said to be simpler an I mora satis- 
factory than any other oilengine. It got. la-t 
year, the Royal Agricultural Society of England's 
first prize m a patent safety o.l engine, suitable 
for farmers. If only the old duty on kerosene 
oil were restored, there is no doubt a great deal 
more would be done in oil enginjs in Ceylon. 
Manuring Tea. — Is it true that a well-known 
Manager has decided it is no use going on 
manuring his tea, since his trees' tap root is down 
16 feet and subsidiaries in proportion, and he can- 
not get at them by surface work?! — The results 
of manuring in the lowcountry not 100 miles 
from Colombo are said to be such as to have 
thoroughly fr'ghtened certain V.A. s as to what 
is coming — heavy crops of cheap teas turned 
out at 1-5 to 20 cents per lb. is the extreme 
view of the result. But this can only miean 
the complete shutting-up of China and jJapan 1 
On the other hand, it is reported that manur- 
ing — especially with anything "artificial" — is as 
good a prohibited over a large extent of planta- 
tions by certain responsible Managers who dread 
a pest being introduced through the etfeci of 
petsistent artificial manuring, 
