June 1, 1901.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 849 
An Interim Dividend of 3 per 
cent was paid on tlie 2ad Octo- 
ber, 1900, absorbing . . £1,957 16 0 
And the Directors now propose 
to deal with the balance as 
follows — 1. In writing off 
from Cost of Properties as 
Depreciation of I&achinery 
&c. .. ... 1,000 0 0 
2. In payment of a final divi- 
dend (free of income tax) of 4 
per cent (making 7 per cent 
for the year) . . . . 2,610 8 0 
3. In carrying forward to next 
year the balance of . . 1,272 10 
-£6,840 14 1 
The result of the, season's operations is not so 
favourable as that of the previous year, but will 
doubtless be considered satisfactory in view of the 
period of extreme depression through which the Tea 
Industry has recently been passing. 
The following Table gives the Acreages and Be- 
Bulta for the year : — 
Acreage in 
in full and 
partial 
bearing. 
316 
352 
517 
550 
Estate. 
Tea ('rop Yield er 
lb. 
jjacre. 
Aberdeen 
Oalsay 
Dunkeld 
Luccombe 
Thornfield & 
Gleneagles 
Uda Radella 
457 
420 
143,361 
171,674 
235,106 
209,732 
248,087 
202,947 
397 
488 
456 
381 
543 
483 
2,657 1,210,907 456 
Estate. 
Aberdeen 
Calsay 
Dnnkeld 
Luccombe 
Thornfield & ) 
Gleneagles f ' 
Uda Eadella 
O 
25-05 
31'62 
29-13 
29-94 
■29-27 
39-61 
S a 
CJ (11 H 
^' 
4- 41 
7-08 
5- 91 
5-27 
201 8 
1,387 0 
1,156 17 
397 5 
2 
7 
8 
0 
7-34 2,667 19 9 
801 2,564 8 2 
29-42 6-43 £8,374 19 4 
In the above Table the Superintendents' Commission 
has now been included in the cost per lb. of Tea, and 
takpn into aicount in arriving at the Working Profit. 
Uda Radella has done well, but all the other Es- 
tates show much reduced profits, the falling off being 
most marked in the case of the Estates producing 
low-grade Teas. 
The total Acreage of the Estates as on 1st January, 
1901, was as follows : — 
Acreage under Tea. 
Estate. 
Aberdeen 
Calsay 
Dunkeld 
Luccombe 
Thornfield & 
Gleneagles 
Uda Radella . 
Kehelgama . 
In full 
bearing. 
[n partial 
bearing. 
Not in 
bearing. 
Total. 
Forest 
Reserves 
&c. 
Tot-a,l 
Acreage, 
. 347 
342 
517 
. 550 
14 
10 
13 
361 
365 
517 
5.50 
119 
22 
79 
200 
480 
S87 
750 
457 
7 
464 
48 
512 
. 3S0 
40 
52 
472 
83 
322 
555 
322 
2,593 
64 
72 
2,729 
873 
3,602 
In accordance with the Articles of Association, Mr 
B J Young retires from the Board at this meeting 
and, being eligible, offers himself for re-election. 
Messrs. W B Peat & Co. also offer themselves for 
re-appointment as Auditors to the Company.— By order 
of the Board, W. H. Baetlett, Secretary. 
London, 22nd April, 1901. 
PLANTING NOTES. 
The Directors of the Anglo-Indian Evangelisa- 
tion Society, which will hold its annual meeting 
in the Lower Exeter Hall on the 29th inst., are 
most anxious to send out more men to occupy- 
new fields on the tea estates, among the European 
employees on the 20,000 miles of railway, and 
other lonely districts, where it is imp(;ssible for 
the missionaries and ministers of the various 
denominations to visit or hold meetings, Bi.shop 
Welldon, of Calcutta, and all missionaries testify 
to the good done by this Society. — British Weekly 
April 25. 
On Some New Species of Eucalyptus. 
—By R T Baker, F. L. s., Curator, Tecii- 
nological Museum, Sydney, (with Plates) has 
just reached us from Sydney, the speci- 
cimens noticed being : — Eucalyptus Vitrea, 
.sp. nov. ; White Top Messmate; Eucalyptus 
Delegatensis, sp. nov. ; White Ash, Silver - 
Topped Mountain Ash ; Eucalyptus Intertexta, 
sp. nov. ; Spotted Gum, Gum, Coolabah ; Euca- 
lyptus Morrisii, sp. nov. ; Grey Mallee ; Eucalyp- 
tus Vividus, sp. nov. ; Green Mallee, Red Mallee, 
Brown Mallee. 
Coffee Planting,— One of the errors, com- 
mitted by our early coffee planters in both Ceylon 
and Southern India, was the establishing of small 
clearings surrounded by heavy .jungle in the shape 
of underwood. The plant, as subsequent ex- 
perience has shown, should be put down on the 
most open ground procurable, unmixed with other 
shrubs; and where there is jungle in the imme- 
diate vicinity, it will be as well if a belt of plan- 
tain trees were laid down between. On the West 
Indian islands an idea prevails that many trop- 
ical parasites exhibit an aversion to the neigh- 
bourhood of plantain trees ; the smooth stems and 
leaves aff"ording no lurking places as other plants. 
— Indian Planters' Gazette April 20. 
Although China is so old there's always some- 
thinsr new from it. The last is that the Chinese 
dread decapitation, not because it is painful, for 
(so far as is known) consciousness ceases at the 
first cut, but because he starts life in the next 
world with his head off. This is a serious handi- 
cap. But look at the ingenuity of the people? 
They get over the difficulty by paying the heads- 
man a stiff figure to get hold of tlie tete and trunk 
as quickly as possible and then either sew them or 
gum them together on reaching home. Thus they 
make sure that if there is an after life their re- 
latives will be at least presentable. Naturally, 
mistakes occasionally occur, and the nuts are 
screwed on the wrong way — looking down the 
vertebral cohimn instead of down the front. A 
somewhat similar belief (legnrding the prudence 
of dying intact) is to be found in the valley of the 
Ganges. That's why we blew .so many persons 
away from guns in '57, and why we'd blow, them 
again tomorrow if the necessity ,irose. Surely 
man's idea of what comes when consciousness goes 
is the standing riddle of the a.ges.— Sydney Mail 
April 27. ' 
