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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[April i, 1895. 
COFFEE-PLANTING IN THE STRAITS. 
What is expected of Coffee in Selangor may be 
judged from the following extract from the pros- 
pectus of The Pataling Coffee Company, Limited : — 
The land contains an area of .2,000 acres or 
thereabouts, and is situated in the District of Patal- 
ing in the State of Selangor, and is distant about 
4j miles from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of that 
State. The land is under the leases at present held 
subject to the total yearly rent of $200 - 65, or a 
little over 10 cents per acre. 
The land is shown on the accompanying plan, and 
was selected by Mr. Bailey as suitable in his view 
for coffee cultivation. It lies in one block, di- 
vided only by the Government railway and has a 
frontage of about 2 miles along that railway. The 
Pataling station on that railway is immediately 
adjacent to the land. 
The price to be paid for the acquirement of the 
land by assignment from Mr. Bailey and any others 
interested with him is $20,000, none of which is 
payable in cash, but the whole will be satisfied by 
the allotment of 200 fully paid up shares of $100 
each in the Capital of the Company, which will be 
ssued subject to the restriction that as to two-thirds 
of them, such shares shall not be sold or transferred 
for the period of three years from the date of allotment. 
Mr. Bailey also agrees to subscribe for 50 further 
shares in the Company. 
Careful calculations" show that $60,000 will be suf- 
ficient capital to bring into cultivation 400 acres of 
coffee within three years. 
The expenditure is estimated as follows, viz. : — 
Purchase money in fully paid up shares 
First Year's Expenditure— Opening 150 acres 
Second do do do do 
Up-keep on 150 acres first opened at $2) 
Third Year's Expenditure— Opening 100 acres 
Up-keep 300 acres previously opened, at S3 > 
Expenditure at the end of 3rd year 
Fourth Year's Expenditure— 
Up-keep of 400 acres at S30 
House for Superintendent 
Conductor's House 
New cooly lines 
Store and Machinery 
Fifth Year's Expenditure— 
Up-keep 400 acres at $70 per acre 
Sixth Year's Expenditure— 
Up-keep do. do do 
Seventh Year's Expenditure— 
Up-keep do, do do 
The returns calculated to be received 
expenditure are as follows, viz. :— * 
During Third Year — 
150 acre*, at \ picul per acre=75 piculs at $30 
Fourth Year — 
161,900 
against the 
2,250 
„ „ 600 „ , 
18,009 
<> I 
, i ,, 
i) <> 75 „ , 
, 2,250 
Fifth Year— 
1, , 
5 „ 
„ » 750 „ , 
, 22)509 
100 \ 
4 „ 
„ n 600 „ , 
, 18,000 
i 
i. 0 5" ,i i 
, 1,500 
Sixth Year— 
150 , 
6 „ 
,i » 900 ( i , 
, 27,000 
100 ,' 
5 
» » 750 „ , 
, 22,500 
4 „ 
i) » 400 „ ' , 
, 12,000 
Seventh Year- 
150 „ 
0 „ 
it „ 090 „ , 
, 27,000 
e n 
»» »» »,!> 1 
, 27,090 
J 80 ,', 
5 „ 
„ 500 „ , 
, 15,000 
20,258 
42,900 
61,500 
-- 69,000 
195,099 
The estimated excess of receipts over expenditure, 
inclusive of the price of the laud at the end of the 
7th year, is thus more than $30,000. The estimates 
have been prepared with care and caution. For ex- 
ample, the price of coffee has been taken at $30 per 
picul, whereas at the present time the selling price 
;s $47 Per pioul, 
The intended Company will also, if they do not 
decide to plant the whole of the laud themselves, 
have a considerable area which it is anticipated tiny 
will be able to dispose of on favourable terms. 
COCONUT OIL. 
The following notification appears in tbe Traran- 
core Government (Jautttt: — With a view to encourage 
the local manufacture of coconut oil, it is hereby 
notified under sanction of His Highness the Maha 
Rajah that the Tariff value of coconut oil is reduced 
from R14 to 12 per cent. The new Tariff will come 
into operation from the 13th March current. 
+ . 
THE BARK OF THE MANGROVE. 
SCOTCH ENTERPRISE. 
We have lately had in the Island representative* 
from a Glasgow Company interested in the manu- 
facture by anew process of an extract from the 
bark of the Mangrove tree. This Company have 
been, through Mr. Royle of the Imperial Institute 
and Mr. F. H. M.Corbet of London in com inunica- 
tion with the Ceylon Government for getting 
a concession to obtain Mangrove bark, and 
suitable terms have been arranged with the au- 
thorities. Messrs. ii. R. Murray and J. Lunis- 
den Oatts were sent out by the Company to ar- 
range for a suitable site at which to commence 
operations, and after visiting the various localities 
where Mangrove is to be found, these gentlemen 
have fixed ujxjn Trincomalee as the place where 
operations are to be carried on. A suitable site 
covering upwards of five acres has been acquired 
by the Company at Trincomalee, and already 
building operations are in progress. We under- 
stand a large factory will be built there, and 
extensive machinery will shortly be shipped 
Irom Scotland for carrying on tlie work. As 
the Company is strongly supported the new 
venture it is expected will be actively prose- 
cuted. We wish the new enterprise every sue- 
ces. We understand Messrs. Murray and* Oatts 
are greatly pleased with their visit to Ceylon, 
and speak in high terms of praise of the cour- 
tesy shown them and the assistance granted by 
the Government officials and others with whom 
they came in contact. 
CEYLON PLANTERS IN SELANGOR. 
The Singapore Free Press of the 26th ultimo 
says :— 
It may be of interest to know that Mr. Thomas 
North Christie, of Ceylon, perhaps the most pro' 
minent Ceylon planter and formerly the Planting 
Member of the Ceylon Legislative Council, has, 
through his friend Mr. G. W. Welman acquired a 
small interest in Selangor by the purchase of a 
block of coffee land in the Klang district. Besides 
Mr. Christie and Mr. Forsyth it ia not improbable 
that by-and-by other planters in Ceylon may make 
experimental investments in coffee land in Selangor. 
Mr. Welman who is also taking up some coftee 
land at Klang. returns to Selangor by the " Sap- 
pho" on Saturdaj- prior to his return to Europe m 
the s.s. " Ernest Simons" next month. 
Coffee and Tea in the United States.— 
Sixty years ago, the estimated consumption of 
coffee in the United States, was about 60 
million of pounds per annum. At present it 
exceeds 500,000,000 pounds. We trust to see the 
consumption of tea rise erelong to half this 
quantity or 250 million lb.— at present it M| 
under 100 million lb. * 
