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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [April i, ,895. 
this, will give their most favourable considera- 
tion to the proposals of Messrs. Bierach and 
Cockhurn. Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, is a 
very important centre of trade with extensive 
railway communication in all directions, and 
to the (Southern States it is very much what 
Chicago is to the West and the North. It 
would therefore, in our opinion, be a very great 
pity if the opportunity were not seized to 
have Ceylon tea, and indeed its products generally, 
well to the front at the Exposition there. In 
view of the facts stated by our correspondents 
we think this can he best, and at the sumetimc 
most economically, done by what Mr. Cockburn 
designates as a "direct and authorised repre- 
sentation from the Government and Planters' 
Association." Apart from the prestige which 
attaches to an Exhibition under official auspices 
— and that is a very important consideration — faci- 
lities are given to a representation of this character 
which are not afforded to those who take part in 
the display in the furtherance of merely private 
commercial enterprise. An instance of this is 
that if the representation is official, the space 
required will be allotted free of cost, but other- 
wise will be charged for at the rate of .SI a 
foot. Mr. Bierach estimates that it will lie 
necessary to have 4,000 feet, and if that space 
has to be paid for it will mean an expenditure of 
$4,000 or about Rlo,000. That is a circum- 
stance which we think is entitled to great weight, 
and in view of the readiness which the Government 
has shown to assist the planters, so far as they 
properly could in their campaign in America, 
we should fancy that they would not be un- 
willing to give their patronage to the present 
effort and join with the " Committee of Thirty " as 
representing the planting and mercantile commu- 
nities in issuing a Commission in favour of 
Messrs. Bierach and Cockburn. These gentlemen 
we feel sure, would most faithfully and energetically 
attend to our interests not only at Atlanta hut 
at the great Canadian International Exhibition 
in 1896, and the Baltimore Centennial and 
International Exposition in 1897 which should 
most distinctly be kept in view, particularly 
in arranging to send over native servants who 
could be very usefully employed in the intervals 
between the Expositions, at the Tea Demonstra- 
tions to be held in the larger towns of the States. 
$6,000 is the sum said to be required and we are as- 
sured that this is a very moderate estimate. There 
is no time to be lost, for Mr. Bierach points 
out that the authorities expect to be ready to 
receive exhibits by June 1st. It is possible 
that since the letters upon which we are com- 
menting were despatched our delegate, Mr. Mac- 
kenzie, has met Messrs. Bierach and Cockburn 
and made arrangements so far as he could for our 
representation at Atlanta ; but there should be 
no delay at this end, and we hope to hear soon 
of the " Committee of Thirty" having taken the 
desired action in the matter, and of Government 
having agreed to lend official patronage. 
PATIAGAMA CINCHONA COMPANY, 
LIMITED. 
Annual Report. 
The following is the report for the past year 
which was presented at a meeting of the share- 
holders of the Company at the office of Messrs. 
Bois Brothers & Co. 
Directors. — Messrs. C. E. H. Symons, W. Cross 
Buchanan and Percy Bois. 
Agents and Secretaries. — Messrs. Bois Brothers 
& Co, 
The Directors herewith heg to auhmit their 13th 
Annual Report, and they regret that it ia not so 
favourable as was hoped might he the case at the 
commencement of the season. 
The estimate of Tea for the past year was 63.000 
lb.; but the actual crop has fallen short of this 
quantity, being only 6J.98S lb., which was sold iu 
Colombo at an average rate of .V24 cents per lb. 
On a reference to the annexed account, it will be 
seen that the actual working of the year shows a 
small margin of R2170m The Directors recom- 
mend that the balance now at credit of Profit and 
Loss account should be appropriated in reduction 
of Suspense account, which represents the loss in- 
curred in working the Estate previous to 1H90 whilst 
the Tea was coming into bearing : and they trust the 
bhareholders wdi approve of this leeoinmendatiou. 
The Shareholders have to appoint a Director iu 
place of Mr. C. E. H. Symons, whose term of office 
has expired; and it will also be necessary to appoint 
an Auditor for lfc>!».">. 
VARIOUS PLANTING NOTE 3 
The '• Indian Forester." — Edited by J. S. Gamble 
am.., >.l.s., Conservator of Forests, and Director of the 
forest School, Dehra Dun for Febiuaiv, has for 
Contents :— Original Articles and Translations.— The 
reproduction of High Forest (Transla ion) No 1 ■ The 
Rain tree for Avenues, by M. R. ; Flowering of b'trob- 
llanthes in Burma, by C.W.B.A. Correspondence — 
Commutation of Rights, letter from " B.H.B.-p- "• 
Pyingado for Wood-pavement, letter from .7 Nisbet 
Rate of Growth of Teak, letter from P. Lushii.gton- 
Palmyras, letter from J. G. F. M. Reviews.— Annuai 
l'orest Administration Report for Mysore for lS91-a2 ■ 
Forest Administration in Jodhpur, 1893-SH Shikar 
and Travel.— A Narrow Shave, by E. D.- A Ladv 
Shikar in Oudh. Extracts, Notes and Queries —The 
Cedar of Central Africa ; Bragantia Wallichii ; A 
forest Hora for Bombay; Fruit Culture on the 
Himalaya ; Lopping Tree Branches ; Deterioration 
of Scotch Pine ; Afforestation in England. 
The Fall in Prices.— Governor Lewellvn of 
Kansas brings into clear relief in the North 
American Review the extent to which the fall 
in prices has hit the Western farmer. In Kansas, 
he says, there is a total mortgage and other in- 
debtedness of one hundred dollars per head for 
every man, woman and child, and the rates of 
interest continue as high as ever, while the value 
of the farm product steadily falls. 10,000 farmers 
in Kansas are every year evicted by the fore- 
closure of mortgages and the number is in- 
creasing : — 
Twenty-five to twenty-eight years ago, with one bale 
of cotton a Southern farmer could buy nearly five 
hundred dollars, and with one sack of wheat (two 
bushels) a Northern farmer could buy five dollars 
Now it requires seventeen bales of cotton and more 
than six sacks of wheat to bring these respective 
amounts. What is true of cotton and wheat is also 
true of other products of the farm. 
The Governor of Kansas does not dogmatise ; 
says the Review of Reviews— but he° evidently 
thinks that the renionetisation of silver would 
have a salutary effect in rescuing the Western 
farmer from his difficulties. The director of the 
Mint, however, points out that the bimetallist as- 
sumption that there is a great scarcity of gold as 
a circulating medium, is not borne out by facts. 
Production of gold was never so rapid as it is today. 
Ihe annual product of gold alone is almost equal 
to the production of both gold and silver before the 
depreciation of silver began. This is chiefly due 
to the output of the Witwatersrand goldiield. This 
field yields a million and a half ounces of <r 0 ld 
every year, and according to the calculations of a 
German expert, if the mines could be worked to a 
depth of 4,000 feet, in forty years we should be 
able to extract £100,000,000 worth of gold from 
this mine alone. 
