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THE TROPICAL AaRICULTURIST. 
'lMakch 1, 1901. 
CINCHONA IN MYSORE, 
The reader will iirobably s-iiiile at this liead- 
line, thinkitio; that lie is to see soiiietliing after the 
style of lilt; chapter on Snakes in Iceland, which read 
" There are no Snakes in Iceiand," We have 
no sucli plagiarism in view, liowever, for there 
actually is cinchona in Mysore. That it is ap- 
parently not worth removing llie hark from it is 
quite anollier matter. (»Hi<;ial statisiics show tl»e 
following figures for 1898 99 ;— 
No. of Plants. 
Kadur 
Mysor 
Hassan 
C Saocirubra 
,, var. Condamiiiia 
C Siiccirubra 
ay a 
(Jondamiuia 
I" C Siiccirul 
i'e •! Califayo 
( ,, var. (Jon 
Mature. Iiiima- lb of 
tare. bark. 
49,160. 43',2Q0 25 
9,840 4,500 
1,749 75 
502 
1,940 
19 
120 
63,191 47,914 
In 1891-93 there were 350 acies under cinchona 
in Mysore, in 1898 99 only 279; in 1894 95 there 
were 207,783 cinchona plants in permanent planta- 
tions in Mysore, only 111,105 in 1898-99 ; the 
quantity of bark collected had decreased from 
160 lb in the former year to 25 lb in the latter. 
Can any Mysore planter oblige us with a liis- 
to riette of the Ilise (?) and Fall of tlie Cinchona 
Industry in the Mysore State? The above figures 
suggest that there is something to be told that 
is worth the telling: 279 acres, 111,105 plants 
and yield— 25 lb!— P/aH/iM.g Oj3i»io?i, Jan. 26 
A FARMEIi'S EVERY-DAY LIFE. 
XVIII. 
{By Cosmopolite.) 
The New Year has begun with a dry change, 
for which we have long prayed : 
THIi WEATHER OK THE PA.ST YEAR 
having been the wettest in Norr.h East Aberdeen- 
shire, of all the years of the 19Lh 0,ntury, so, 
at least, says the oldest inhabitant and he ought 
to know ; and now faimers, when they get the 
chance of a dry day, can't push fast enough in 
order to make up lee-way in the work which has 
been retarded by the bad weather. I have managed 
to get 300 loads of turnips carted, but it has 
been a terrible job, the mud up to the box of 
the cartwheels causing the work to be extra hard 
both on man and beast. My turnip crop has been 
an exceptionally fine one, and it gratifies nie, when 
reading the reports of the prize competitions for 
the growing of turnips with artificial man ures, to 
find that I h?ive beaten the best record bya good 
deal, although I have only used bulky manure. 
The best record that I have read about has been 
23 TONS PER ACRE 
except in one instance when 28 tons were got 
fiom a field dressed with cattle manure only. 
Having sold a few acres of my turnips, as I had 
such a heavy crop that I was not likely to require 
them all myself, one of the pui chasers, who had 
Ijought an acre, carted his to the railway sta- 
tion, where they were weighed and trucked South, 
and the aggregate was just a few pounds 
short of 30 tons, and this, I think, may safely 
Toe considered one more victory scored to the 
credit of Imlky manure. 
•I see that many agriculturists are publishing 
complaints, in the press, about the habib which 
has been adopted, by the farm-servants, of diink- 
ing great 
" BLASHK.S'' OF TEA, 
not only in the afternoon, but 'during the lore- 
noon also. One writer, who farms in Peebles shire, 
tells how his ploughmen's children carry hot lea 
to their fatheis, in the field, at 8 40 a.m., uo 
matter what sort of \\eatheris in evidence ; and 
again, about 3 p.m , the same arrangement is car- 
ried out. He adds that he would not object to this 
during harve^;t time, or when \\ork is from 6 to 6, 
but that surely it is uncalled for at the present 
time of year, when the work is only of seven 
hours' duration. This custom on tlie jiart of farm- 
servants has not yet reached our northern count- 
ies, so that I cannot speak from personal exper- 
ience as to the effect which it |)roduces on the 
men and on the work ; hut, no doubt, the habit, 
will be highly approved of by Ceylon tea-planieis, 
as providing another outlet for the disposal of 
some more of their staple. A nother singular habit 
obtains in England, which, I am thankful to 
say, has i,ot yet reached Scotland, namely the 
DYEING OIT HAIR AMONGST THE T.ABOI RING 
CL^.SSES. 
The fact is that the working man has, long since, 
found that, if he looked old or white-haired, per- 
sons to whom he applied for a manual job would 
seldom entertain hiin if they could get a younger 
man. Even amongst clerks this habit prevails in 
a great measure, and some of tluse, of upwards of 
60, are wonderfully made up. Writing on this 
1 heme reminds me of the rhyme of one's childhood. 
" The sudden fright unnerved her quite, 
She fainted dead away ; 
Her hair turned white in a 'single night, 
But she turned it brown next day." 
THE LONDON CHRISTMAS MARKET. 
has been a complete frost this season, the price 
being very mucli under what the same class of 
stock was selling at, in provincial markets. This 
is easily accounted for, although, I fear, it will 
take many years yet before the dealers who 
patronize the London market will learn wis- 
dom and become converts to the well-known fac- 
that Loudon is the city in which the worst mea 
in Britain is retailed. Eormerl'7 London was cele 
brated tor its roast beef and Highland mutton 
but now, owing to the vast quantities of cheap 
foreign meat at their command, the London butch- 
ers do not care to buy the better quality and 
higher-priced article that Scotch feeders send 
them. Their customers grumble away at the 
tough meat they get, and for which they pay top 
price, but they make no attempt to improve mat- 
ters, and it never seems to dawn upon them that 
they are steaks off the gully-rakers of Argentina, 
and frozen roasts off the working bullocks of Aus- 
tralia that they are eating. 
it would be very different if these butchers 
were compelled to disclose the origin of ihe article 
they sell, and foreign meat be sold for what it 
really is, 
THE BEST BEEK AND MUTTON 
is now to be got at the small village butcher shops 
where the public see and take note of every 
animal that is slaughtered; ^^ here it came from, 
who bred it, how it was fed &c. And he 
would be a foolish butcher indeed who attempted 
to bring into one of our villages a frozen carcase 
^r an animal bought at a distant market. The Lon- 
don Parish Council elected to do away with private 
