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WHAT  IS  THOUGHT  OF 
THE  “TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST.” 
A gentleman  resident  in  the  Central  Province,  who  has  as  good  opportunities  of  knowing  what 
is  of  benefit  to  planters  as  anyone  we  know,  sent  us  the  following  explicit  testimony  to  the  value 
of  the  “ T.A.”; — 
“ Since  its  commencement,  I have  regularly  seen  and  perused  the  Tropical  Agriculturist. 
There  can  be  but  one  opinion  that  its  scope  and  object  are  highly  important,  and  that  it  supplies 
a distinct  desideratum,  which  it  is  to  the  interest  of  every  estate  proprietor  to  have  available 
in  the  bungalow  for  the  use  of  his  locum  tenens,  or  superintendent.  As  a magazine  it  provides 
interesting  and  instructive  fresh  literature  at  intervals,  deprived,  as  most  in  Ceylon  are,  of  eas jr 
access  to  libraries;  and  as  years  go  by  it  will  growingly  become  ‘The  Ceylon  Encyclopaedia, 
with  reference  to  agricultural"  operations.  Viewing  estate  property  as  practically  a permanent 
investment,  to  any  proprietor,  the  trifling  charge  of  R12  per  annum — a rupee  a month  — is  certainly 
of  no  account,  provided  the  separate  numbers  are  kept,  and  bound  together  yearly  as  a book 
of  reference,  for  the  benefit  of  the  manager  and  his  successors.  In  that  light,  as  the  property 
of  an  estate  t > be  handed  over  just  as  much  as  its  office  furniture,  few  proprietors  would  probably 
refuse  to  authorize  its  being  taken  and  filed  regularly  (if  the  periodical  was  brought  under  their 
notice),  more  especially  as  on  looking  over  the  most  recent  volume  one  cannot  fail  to  see  how  much 
valuable  information  on  ‘Tea’  * has  been  collated.  In  the  belief  that  ‘Tea’  will  restore  prosperity 
to  Ceylon,  and  that  plantation  property  is  a good  investment  for  capitalists,  such  should  not  omit  the 
office  and  connected  equipment  so  advisable  on  all  ‘pucka’  estates,  a part  of  which  should  be  me 
Tropical  Agriculturist.  I find  I have  gone  on  writing,  but  as  I am  getting  the  numbers  for  the  past  year 
ready  to  be  bound,  the  volume  is  before  m,.,” 
The  Value  of  the  “T.  A.”  to  Ceylov  Estate  Owners.  —A  planting  correspondent  wrote 
some  time  ago: — “ I think  proprietors  should  supply  every  tea  estate  with  the  T.  A.  The  information  in 
it  with  regard  to  everything  in  connection  with  tea,  &c„  is  invaluable  : it  would  pay  its  value  over  and 
over  again.  Owners  of  estates  should  not  leave  it  to  hard-up  superintendents  to  take  it  in.” 
* “Tea”  is  the  subject  of  a very  large  number  of  references  to  papers  and  articles  in  the  volume 
for  1892-93  now  closed. — hiD. 
