62o THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
for). The total net value realized from sales was 
5232 cents per lb., leaving balance of gain 18'51 
cents per lb. Cost in 1893 was 36*06 cents, and value 
47"26 cents per lb. 
61 15-32 bushels of coffee were secured, which sold 
for B960-14. 
The new machinery is nearly ready for work; and not 
having been used, is not at present chargeable 
The cost of manuring carried to suspense account 
in 1893, together with part cost of manuring 1894, 
is charged in the 1894 accounts ; while a sum of 
B4,246 p 13 is carried forward to be charged in 1895, 
representing unexhausted benefit from manure applied , 
Manure in small doses has been applied over about 
140 acres, with the object of promoting the growth 
where it was deemed advisable, and the results appear 
encouraging. 
Mr. "William Mackenzie's post as superintendent 
has been filled up by the appointment of Mr. Arthur 
Francis White. 
The Company's property consists of: — 
4715 acres Tea under leaf 
50 ,, Forest 
Total.. 526 acres. 
The estimateed crop for 1895 is 130,000 lb. tea. 
It will be seen that the property representing 
capital stands in the Balance Sheet at approximately 
B502 per acre cultivated, and that the profit per 
acres is B44. Mr. Villers Alexander Julius retires 
from the Board by rotation, and is eligible for re- 
election. — Beport adopted. 
LEAD-COATED TEA CHESTS. 
To the Editor of the " Westerk Mail." 
Sir, — Would it not be possible for the whole of the 
tin-plate works proprietors to call a meeting and ask 
the Welsh M.P.'s to attend, and put before them the 
very bad state of the trade, and get them to use their 
influence, either collectively or otherwise, with the 
Board of Trade and Custom House authorities to offer, 
by way of inducement, a rebate of, say one farthing per 
lb. to all tea growers and importers if they will pack 
their teas in steel chests, lead-coated ? Let the Cus- 
toms accept two sizes, namely, the whole chest, hold- 
ing, say, 60 lb., and the half chest, 30 lb. This, to my 
mind, would be the means of opening up a new trade. 
Some may ask how this is to be done. I venture to 
think it can be done in the following way : Let each of 
the tin-plate firms and merchants subscribe a sum of 
money in accordance with their make, and have one 
'first-class man, who is a good linguist, and two or three 
food tinmen who are in the habit of making the dinner 
oxes, teacans, &c, as used by our working classes. 
Let them each have a set of tinman's tools suitable for 
making up these tea-chests, and be sent out to the 
tea-growing districts. They can then show the natives 
how to make the chests. I believe if this subject is 
carefully thought out it may have some good results, 
because we may think what we like and try to put off 
the evil day, but there is no gainsaying the fact that, so 
far as our American trade is concerned and our great 
export to that country, this in a very few months, 
unfortunately for South Wales, will be, like our 
steel rail trade, a thing of the past never to return. — 
I am, &c. LEAD PLATE. ' 
Caerleon-road, Newport. 
P.S. — Shippers should assist this matter, for it would 
add considerably to their cargo-carrying space. 
— WeMem 31 ail. 
Another New German Pharmaceutical Factory. 
. — According to the Pharmaceutische Zeitung, the ex- 
cellent financial results with have attended the pre- 
paration of the pharmaceutical articles by aniline- 
aye works, have led the directors of thu well-known 
Actien Gesellschaft fiir Anilin-fabrikation in Berlin, 
one of the largest concerns of this class, to com- 
mence the manufacture of medicinal preparations. 
When the decision of the directors became known 
the shares of the company advanced immediately. — 
gkmiat and Druggist, Feb. %, 
[Mapch i, 1895. 
VARIOUS PLANTING NOTES. 
Thk Planting of Coconcts.— For a variety 
of opinions as to the mode in which to place 
coconuts in a nursery, we refer to three letters 
in our Corre*|>ondence columns. 
Alkali-works in Germany. — The B&dische Aniliu- 
and Soda-Fabrik are busy building a factory for the 
preparation of alkali by an electro-chemical process. 
The words are estimated to cost about 30," JOoV . — 'A < «i 1 * ' 
and J)rui/t/int, Feb. 2. 
A New Source of Lahocr Scitj.y. -The 
Planters' Committee should carefully consider the 
suggestion offered in Mr. Nevill's inquiry in 
our Correspondence columns today : we cannot 
doubt that both the Indo-Ceylon and Jallua 
Railways would tend to increase our supply <«t 
labour, 
Tanocea and Tannic — S.J. — China tea is the- most 
digestible. Tanocea, to be procured through any 
grocer, from the makers at Bletchley Station. 
Od and Is per box, will prove of much service in 
neutralising the tannic acid in ordinary tea. What 
renders Tanocea specially interesting is that it is 
manufactured by ladies, who are usually the greatest 
sufferers from the tea-drinking habit, and, therefore, 
best qualified to suggest a remedy. — Brit ink Weekly, 
Jan. 24. 
The China Tea Trade.— We find the follow 
important paragraph in the Pioneer: — Already 
the war in China is beginning to aftect the trade 
through Kiakhta. Much less tea has passed 
through this season than usuaL Firms in China 
have already telegraphed that they are not able 
to execute orders and refuse to despatch tea. 
The price is rising considerably, and the Kir- 
pichny (brick) tea, which only passes via the 
Amu and Kiakhta has become very expensive. 
Tea Sweepings in London.— We are glad to 
learn by tills mail that the Tea Dealers are likely to 
call on the Indian and Ceylon Associations to 
take definite action to have a stop put to the 
sale of tea sweepings from the Docks and Ware- 
houses to German or any other buyers. In fact 
they will be called on to have all Such stuff 
destroyed as Unfit for human food, because in 
no case, can such sweepings he said to be owned 
by the Warehouse Companies. 
The Deficiencies in Coffee Cargoes. — A report 
has been made by the Trieste Exchange Committee 
to the Chamber of Commerce upon the result of its 
inquiry into tbe cause of the deficiencies repeatedly 
discovered in cargoes of coffee from London while 
in transit to Trieste. The report says that the 
shortages occur, not in the Trieste warehouses, but 
at the different places of reloading between the 
ports of origin and London. The chamber has de- 
cided to communicate the result of its investigation 
to the Ministry of Commerce and to the Austro- 
Hungarian Consulate-General in London, at the same 
time requesting the latter to give the matter the 
widest possible publicity in England. — Planters' Gazette. 
Russian Commerce in Asia. — It it is stated that 
for the purpose of extendinig Bussian commerce in 
Turkey, Persia, and other Eastern States, the 
Ministers of Finance and foreign Affairs have ordered 
that special classes be attached to the Universities 
for the giving of courses in Eastern languages. 
Students on passing an examination will be avail- 
able for appointments as sworn translators of the 
different Bussian consulates in - Asia, Turkey, and 
Persia. A railway connecting Astrakhan and Tsaritsin 
will be begun this spring, and a plan for connect- 
ing Theodosia with Nicolaieff via Perekop and 
Kherson is awaiting the Minister's consent, which 
is expected next month. This line will be of con- 
siderable strategic importance, because it will connect 
Eertch and other important towns in the South with 
the naval centres of- Sebastopol and Nicolaieff.— « 
Pioneer, Feb, 23, 
