664 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[April j, 1895. 
Prosperous Tea Companies.— We 'congratu- 
late the Shareholders, Managers and Secretaries of 
the Upper Maskeliya and Maha Uva Com- 
Libf.hian Coffee. — We learn from an upcountry 
visitor that Liberian coffee is gradually being ex- 
tended in the districts witli medium and low elevations 
where the climate is suitable for it. There has been 
a good demand for seed of late, and those who have 
seed-bearing trees are doing a good business. Just 
now, when the cocoa market is so depressed, cocoa 
planters are turning their attention to Liberian coffee 
as a stand-by, and we hope that this product, the 
value of which is being at length understood, and 
the cultivatian of which was abandoned loo quickly 
when it was first introduced into Ceylon, will be 
grown over large tracts of country now profitless and 
as a substitute for the ubiquitous tea. 
The Japanese— trying to push their teas in ftns- 
sia is anew and (at this time of war) unexpected 
movement. Telegraphing from Odessa on Feb. 20th, 
the correspondent of the London Stdndaiil reports 
as follows : — 
A special agent from the Japanese Govermont ar- 
rived here a few days ago with one hundred and fif- 
teen large cases of tea, for the purpose of making 
Russians acquainted with the taste and quality of Ja- 
panese teas. The Japanese Minister at Petersburg 
had received instructions to give him every assistance, 
and the Japanese Consul here has introduced him to 
the principal tea merchants in South Russia. This 
agent is commanded by his Government to visit the 
towns of Kieff, Moscow, Nijni Novgorod, and other 
large towns in European Russia. 
Tea-Sweepinos.— Assuredly Mr. T. Christy 
and Sir H. Peek deserve well of the Ceylon 
planters for their action towards the hig Dock 
and Warehouse Companies j and we trust the 
Planters' Associations throughout the country 
will carry votes of thanks to them. These gen- 
tlemen desire that worthless and often adulterated 
"tea-sweepings" from the Warehouses should 
he "denatured" and sold to caffeine-makers — 
not to tea-dealers who use the sweepings to 
mix and resell for human food. Is there a 
Planter or Merchant in Ceylon who will not 
heartily support Sir H. Peek and Mr. Christy » 
The latter has formally called on the Indian 
and Ceylon Tea Associations in London to take 
up the matter ; but these gentlemen ought to he 
heartily supposed from this side. 
The Experiments at Pallegama. — The Govern- 
ment grant of land at Pallegama, where Mr. Gordon 
Reeves and his Syndicate are growing a variety of 
products, has attracted a considerable number of people 
who are settling in the villages of the Laggala dis- 
trict. The boon conferred on the people by this 
enterprise is considerable. The villagers find em- 
ployment when they are not engaged in their own 
agricultural pursuits, and they also find ready markets 
there for their produce. The cultivation of the nu- 
merous products is being studied by the rural popu- 
lation, whereby their much-neglected lands now 
growing worthless vegetation will sooner or later, 
it is to be hoped, be turned into fields of remuner- 
ative products. The Syndicate are mak'ng prepa- 
rations to restore the historical irrigation works 
known as Hatotta amune, with a view to offering to 
the new settlers on very liberal terms irrigable lands 
to be brought under paddy cultivation, and this 
movement it is expected will once more turn the 
" sea of Prakramabahu," or at least a part of it, 
into a rich and fertile paddy-growing district. Some 
few people, fearing that the district is malarial, do 
not avail themselves of the advantages ; but as almost 
all the, new settlers are getting on well, and as the 
water-supply is being improved, this fear will pro- 
bably soon wear away. — Cor. 
panics on the Report* and result* published 
else where ; and in connection with these two ami 
live other Companies whose Reports have lately 
appeared, it is <,f public interest to put on record 
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