THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
367 
Nov-  1, 1892.] 
New  Patent  Tea  Appliance  by  Mr.  Jackson  — 
In  a list  of  patented  inventions  in  the  Indian 
Engineer  we  find  the  following  : — No.  325  of  1891- 
William  Jackson,  of  Nuwara  Eliya,  in  the  Island 
of  Ceylon,  Engineer,  for  “ Improvements  in  appli- 
cation of  air  blast  or  exhaust  apparatus  for  keep- 
ing tea  leaf  cool  whilst  being  operated  on  in  Tea 
Rolling  Machines.”  (Filed  16  h September  1892  ) 
The  Uses  op  the  Plantain.  A correspon- 
dent writing  to  the  Sugar  Journal  on  the  uses 
of  the  banana  sayB  : — “ I don’t  think  that  the  health- 
giving properties  of  the  banana  are  appreciated  by 
the  people  of  our  large  towns,  where  the  fruit  is 
so  cheap.  They  merely  look  upon  it  as  a cheap 
edible  when  other  fruits  are  scarce  or  cut  of 
season  ; but  in  slices  the  banana  makes  an  excellent 
salad  served  with  any  kind  of  dressing:  cured  it 
is  far  more  palatable  than  meat ; boiled  as  a vege- 
table while  green  in  the  skin  for  one  hour  and 
peeled  before  sending  it  to  the  table  it  will  be 
found  excellent,  and  would  make  Paddy  smile  and 
think  he  was  in  old  Ireland  again.  It  also  makes 
an  extremely  delioious  pudding  for  children,  served 
with  sweet  milk  and  some  sugar,  and  baked  for 
one  hour  in  a moderately  quick  oven.  Many  people 
in  different  parts  of  the  world  can,  with  truth, 
say  in  regard  to  the  banana,  ‘ This  is  what  I live 
on.’  A very  good  breakfast  dish  is  to  be  made 
by  frying  slices  of  banana  in  the  hot  baoon  fat 
with  plenty  of  pepper,  and  serving  together  as  one 
does  a dish  of  bacon  and  eggs.” 
Sov  Bean  as  Cattle  Feed.— Professor  Georgeson 
of  th9  Kansas  Agricultural  College,  writes  to  the 
Industrialist  that  he  is  filling  a small  Bilo  with 
a portion  of  the  Boy  Bean  crop  in  order  to  test 
its  feeding  value  when  so  preserved.  He  has  four 
varieties,  two  of  whioh  are  so  far  advanced  toward 
maturity  that  the  leaves  have  begun  to  fall,  while 
in  the  others  the  seeds  are  only  half-grown.  The 
plants  were  grown  in  rows  thirty-two  inohes  apart 
in  loam  of  only  fair  quality,  which  has  not  been 
manured,  and  the  yield  of  green  plants  is  about 
five  and  one  third  tons  to  the  aore.  The  growth 
has  been  made  in  exactly  three  months.  Its  feed- 
ing value  oomparse  favorably  with  that  of  Clover 
and  Alfalfa  in  nutritive  qualities,  and  the  ripe 
beans  are  only  excelled  by  oilmeal.  Cattle  and 
hogs  eat  all  parts  of  the  plant  greedily,  and  even 
the  dry  bean-straw  thrown  into  the  yard  after 
the  beans  were  threshed  out  was  all  eaten  by  the 
oattle.  But,  perhaps,  the  quality  which  will  be 
most  highly  appreciated  in  Kaneas  is  its  power 
to  withstand  drought,  so  that  not  even  the  severe 
drought  of  last  year  affected  it  disastrously.  When 
all  these  qualities  become  known,  Professor 
Georgeson  thinks  it  must  take  a leading  place 
among  our  fodder  plants, — Garden  and  Forest. 
The  Produce  of  Indian  Forests.— Mr.  Ribben- 
trop,  Inspector-General  of  Indian  Forests,  has 
is-ued  an  announcement  that  the  Government  of 
India  will  publish  unofficially,  as  appendices  to  the 
“ Indian  Forester,”  a series  of  notes  on  the  pro- 
duce of  Indian  forests.  These  publications  will,  it 
is  hoped,  by  degrees  inorease  the  public  knowledge 
of  Indian  forest  produoe,  especially  with  regard  to 
its  utilization  for  manufactures  or  trade,  and  will 
at  the  same  time  serve  as  the  most  convenient 
record  of  factB  available  for  the  compilation  of 
the  Imperial  Institute  handbooks.  Mr.  Ribbentrop 
has  no  doubt  that  Indian  forests  contain  still 
many  undeveloped,  and  in  some  instances  even 
undiscovered,  treasures  in  the  shape  of  tanning 
materials,  oils,  resins,  dyes,  fibres,  paper  material, 
dkc,,  and  even  as  regards  timber,  a fact  whioh  has 
been  brought  prominently  to  his  notice  by  the  recent 
(Uyelo^meoli  of  the  trade  in  Pad ouk.— London  Times > 
Weeds  Indicating  Soil. — Weeds  are  not  often 
either  respecters  of  persons  or  of  soils,  but  usually 
grow  apace  with  the  crops  unless  diligently  resisted 
by  the  aggressive  farmer,  though  the  fact  that  some 
kinds  of  weeds  only  grow  on  rioh  soil,  and  their 
presence  indicates  fertility,  is  well  understood  by 
farmers.  The  common  thistle  cannot  be  grown 
successfully  on  thin,  cold  soil.  Possibly  its  seed 
might  germinate  on  such  land,  but  it  oould  not 
amount  to  much.  The  oommon  mallows,  growing 
in  gardens,  and  often  a great  nuisance  there, 
will  not  grow  in  fields  of  only  ordinary  fertility. 
On  the  other  hand,  mullein  an  1 ragweed  grow 
better  on  poor  soil  than  on  any  other,  probably 
because  other  plants  run  them  out  if  the  land 
is  rich.  A story  is  told  of  a blind  man  who  was 
very  wealthy,  and  who  has  made  much  of  his 
money  buying  and  selling  land.  Driving  one  day 
with  his  servant  to  a piece  that  had  been  com- 
mended highly,  he  asked  “ Can  you  find  a thistle 
here  to  hitch  the  horse  to  while  I walk  about 
the  land?”  “No,”  was  the  response,  “but  here 
is  a mullein  that  will  do  as  well.”  “ Drive  on,” 
said  the  blind  man,  “ a soil  that  grows  mulleins 
rather  than  thistles  never  does  for  my  buying.” — 
Horticultural  Times , Sept.  12. 
CEYLON  EXPORTS  AND  DISTRIBUTION,  1892. 
0 
t£. 
a 
X5 
1892 
cwt. 
to  oococood-mi  rc-toao 
hh  cocot^cuos  01  in  cm 
t-  • co  CO  10  os  r : ; ;TOrtCt5  ..... 
co  • »co  ....  cm  2 • ; . : 
05  CM  rH  O 
to 
a.  c-  co  05 
rH  CM  r-I  OO 
CO  -J*  t-  lO 
O rH  O'.  CO 
1C  05  to 
CO  co  to  CO 
1 
3 
0 
S 
J> 
r id  05  oo  cm  co  cm  -*  •— i rococo  Mi  co 
O r--  c b”  r-<  0 i/swoifo  p?  »a 
Oi  (NOJHOOt  .COO  : : -31  / 
cop  |t-  cocct-:  io-*::.cMrioo  h : 
-<  0 a.  Oi 
CO  Tf f to  CD 
OV  CD  t—  CO 
■rr  CO  to 
U5  H T71  O) 
CO  to  to  CQ 
Tfi  CO  to  CM 
is 
ru 
1 a H vtl  H I'i  r-t  Q(DN  A 
t—  tO  CO  r—i  CO  PH  •?  N 1/5  ' 1 
Oxt-  cm  • t*  » • • • oc  to  • T#  co  * * 
co  t— to  ci  • cm  • • * J co  — * • co  cm  • : 
O rH  to  CO  t-  t-  O 
*”•  rH  CM  CO 
t-.  rH 
A 
0 
a 
3 
3 
3 
03  0 rH  co  co  ao  tw  co 
© O-  C3  CM  -P  X.  CD  t>  1-0 
01  CM  -Ml  -<T  co  CM  *0  rH 
CO  CO  00  Tfl 
05  CO  CO  O 
CO  ~ CO  CM 
fo  — CO 
ICt-OOD 
^ ^ CO  CO 
09 
« . 
« 
l§5§S?gS  8 SSS8  oh 
l-  TJ  H CO  H 0 I-  ; 0 . • CO  CO  O • O CO  • • 
CO  ^ 1 w O iC  O • lO  « ir.rjii/3  *toO  : • 
CO  COl/JuS  t-  t—  Cl  MO  CO  rH 
do  H CO 
CO  Hi  CM  to 
CO  X Oi  ,0 
«-  co  T?S 
05  CO  rH  If  J 
CO  CD  CO  O 
CO  cc  10  0 
HHr|W 
1 
0 
a 
b 
1 eo  t—  00  -»•  0 0 
1 ^ 0$  HClO  CD 
iiogo  ; ; co  ; ; ; ; ; » co  to  t—  *05  • • • 
^ S-  • . 
CO  CO  10  05 
I O -O  rH 
to  to  CC  QO 
to  lO  0 05 
03  X r-  to 
CM  to  to  to 
a 
8 
3 
© 
-H  HJ1  cc  C>  t-  to 
iO  -HI  CM  O C—  CO 
:rH  ; os  ; tjioo  : ; 
t—  05  CO  tH 
CO  t—  t-  lO 
to  co  lo  t— 
lOt'-r-l 
a 
x> 
H 
1 [NCrjin-T-l'OOlOO  0 0 CO  (D  00  CO  N r- 
O CO  »C  CC  Co  l—  OCO  OOJCQiQMNXi-CQ 
CM  CO  OO  O 05  N XT  CO  ;05  0)Ht>.CC03t-05M 
2?  * 1 0 CO  TD  CO  rH  — 1 .HJJOOftHCOCOB 
00,0  OOl  rH  O rH  ic  ® OV  M B N H 
1 b*  rH  Tfi  CM 
! ^ 
t- to  rH  t- 
CM  lO  00  0 
t—  CM  t—  UO 
cc  pH  . to 
to  O <H  X) 
05  Ml  CO  to 
CO  X)  t-  l— 
if-  iO  co  01 
a 
3 
a 
.3 
o 
XI  0 X °°  O to  05 
0 05  in  a Tfi  cot— 
a M t—  O cm  00 
•T  | CO  CM  rH  05  Tfi  CM 
03  Q 05  i co  : to  ; i « : : • «o  • • • • • 
w o os  : : ::::::  ::::: 
to  U j t*  - 
§§  1 
0 00  CO  hi 
CO  CO  — -Ml 
CD  0 t—  rH 
iQtCiCO 
oo-oh- 
10  t—  rl  CD 
tO  TP  C'.  t-. 
■M 
S 
D 
£ 
aa 
0 
1 
EH 
CT.  HOICOTfl  CM  CM  — 1 Oi  CM  CD  -P  CM 
O ■—  to  rH  rH  WN»CO^hO 
05  CO  CO-O;  ! ! .S  0 1/5  rH  rH* 
— • 10  • ...  00  ! 
CM 
to  Cl  c5 
O 10  — . cS 
0 co  Q CD 
CD  10  to  to 
co  0 t—  co 
1) 
5 
Cl  05  Hfl  01  rji  CC  00 
lOlO  0 to  00  0 
rH  .H  ; .cm  : : : : : :coa>vji  : : : ; 
t*-oco 
i>  to  to  co 
Cm  t*i  to  ^ 
t-tooicoo  cm  to  cr.  c*»  f-i  to  c©  .31 
. 1-1  r"1  . CO  00  CO  CO  r-/  05 
CD  COtTJ  ! I ITOHh  r—i 
rH  10  • • . : t-  : 
to 
00  rH  CO  tH 
CO  TP  to  HI 
m H/T5QO 
CD  C—  CO  iO 
COUNTKIES. 
40  ‘ ' * 
•2  * 
M _ r.  . «3  £ § 
t=<Jcqd-c5HS0,a3ccHH<l<)',:ooj«a 
fci  
• to  -H  0 05 
a a»  os  05  go 
«Q  ot,  00  00  00 
^Hrtplrl 
I 
U . 
no  0 
fO 
rH  ° 
