Oct.  i,  1892.] 
THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
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INDIAN  TEA  COMPANIES  IN  1891. 
The  figures  in  Mr.  Tye’s  table  are  very  interesting.  The  acreages  in  cultivation  vary  from  812 
to  nearly  10,000,  the  latter  in  the  oase  of  the  great  Assam  Company.  The  yield  per  aore  runs 
from  326  to  672  lb.  The  profit  on  each  pound  of  tea  varied  from  fd  to  3d,  and  the  dividends, 
where  declared,  from  2£  to  17  per  cent.  Only  in  one  case  was  there  no  profit  made. 
INDIAN  TEA  COMPANIES. 
(Registered  in  London.) 
Arranged  aooording  to  area  of  cultivation. 
Results  of  working  in  1891. 
Name  of  Company. 
aAssam  Company 
Land  Mortgage  Bank  of  India,  Ltd.; 
oJokai  (Assam)  Tea  Company  Ltd. 
aJorehaut  Do. 
aDooara  Do. 
Assam  Frontier  Do. 
Chargola  Tea  Association,  Ltd. 
Brahampootra  Tea  Company,  Ltd.... 
aUpper  Ass*m  Do. 
Jhanzie  Tea  Association,  Ltd. . 
Doom  Dooma  Tea  Company,  Ltd.... 
aDarjeeling  Do. 
Attaree  Khat  Tea  Do. 
aLebong  Tea  Do. 
Majuli  Tea  Do. 
Borelli  Tea  Do. 
India  Tea  Company  of  Cacbar,  Ltd 
Borokai  Tea  Company,  Ltd 
Tiphook  Tea  Do. 
Lungla  Tea  Do. 
aLuokimpore  Tea  Co.  of  Assam,  Ltd 
Ohubwa  Tea  Company,  |Ltd 
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114,500 
194,224 
56,500 
126,440 
135,420 
57,280 
82,070 
55,790 
78,170 
94,060 
43,660 
28,000 
36,110 
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36,140 
35,007 
16,720 
79,590 
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a Indicates  that  the  Company  has 
Ernest  Tte, 
August  26th,  1892. 
— H.  <&  O.  Mail. 
a quotation  ou  the  Stock  Exchange. 
Seoy.j  Indian  Tea  Districts’  Association, 
14,  St  Mary  Axe,  E.  C. 
SIAM  AS  A SCENE  OP  PLANTING  ENTERPRISE. 
A former  tobaooo  planter  in  Deli  (Sumatra)  writes 
to  us  as  follows  : — 
“SiDgora,  Siam,  Ang.  4th. 
“ Will  yon  kindly  send  me  your  books  1 Ad  about  To- 
bacco ’ and  ‘Liberian  Coffee.’  I saw  a copy  of  the 
former  and  was  exceedingly  surprised  to  find  yon  had 
comprofsed  so  much  matter  into  so  small  a volume. 
I take  the  liberty  of  enclosing  a photograph  of  a leaf 
taken  from  a Liberian  coffee  plant  about  3 f'-et  high 
and  10  months  old,  it  was  only  transplanted  May  20th. 
I believe  the  leaves  are  unusually  large:  hence  my 
reason  for  sending  this  photo  of  one  to  you.  It 
measures  14J  x 6|  inches.  Will  you  oblige  by  yoar 
comments  on  same. 
“ Oj  the  hills*  in  Jenna  there  are  annmbtr  of  Arabian 
ooffee  plants  in  great  vigour,  giving  big  crops  without 
any  signs  of  loaf  disease  ou  a low  elevation  of  only 
about  a hundred  and  twenty  feet  planted  by  natives. 
The  Jenna  hills  are  close  to  the  Keddab  and  Sii  gora 
road  in  about  latitude  N 7"  20  , are  well  sheltered  and 
are  Lot  subject  to  violent  winds.  The  soil  is  a brown- 
ish yellow  loam  of  great  depth,  and  there  are  lime 
st  110  hills  in  the  vicinity.  The  surveying  engineers 
are  hard  at  work  planning  out  the  line  of  railway 
from  S ingora  to  Province  Wellesley,  Penang,  from 
which  these  hills  are  only  two  or  three  miles  distant. 
I have  given  yon  this  information,  as  with  the  high 
prices  of  coffee  and  cheap  Siamese  labour  with  land 
ready  to  be  given  away  some  of  your  energetic  planters 
who  visited  Perak  last  year  may  find  it  suit  them  far 
better  to  try  the  soil  here.” 
The  photo  of  the  big  ooffee  leaf,  which  is  very  well 
taken,  can  be  seen  at  our  offioe. 
A Heresy  in  the  Manufacture  of  Tea 
is  broached  by  Mr.  Arthur  Sinclair  in  a narrative 
of  his  Peruvian  travels.  After  stating  that  the 
leaves  of  Erythroxglon  Coca  are  plucked  when  well 
matured,  dried  in  the  sun  and  simply  paoked  in 
bundles  for  use  or  export,  he  goes  on  to  write  - 
“ Probably  tea  might  be  treaied  in  the  same  way, 
and  its  real  virtues  conserved  in  the  natural  vessels 
of  the  leaf  till  drawn  out  in  the  teapot  ; the  fer- 
menting and  elaborate  manipulation  introduced  by 
Chinamen  are  of  doubtful  utility.”  If  so,  what 
needless  expense  have  planters  inourred  in  rollers, 
driers,  &c  Who  has  tried  or  will  try  the  experiment 
of  simply  drying  the  flush  in  the  sun  ? 
* These  hills  run  to  2,000  feet  in  height. 
