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« "TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST" ^ 
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WHAT IS THOUGHT OF 
THE "TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST." 
For cultivators of New Prodncta, it is invalaable, telling us so much that is doing in other conntries with 
the leBultB of their work in Rubber, Fibres, Tobacco, Cotton, ( 'amphor and other Spioea, &c.— " Planter." 
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 ragnlarly seen and perused the Tropical Agrictdturist. There oao be 
but one opinion that its scope and objoct are highly important, and that it supplies a distinct desideratnm, 
which it is to the interest of every estate proprietor, to have available in the bungalow for the use of his locum 
Unenn, or superintendent. As a magazine it provides varied and instructive fresh literature at intervals ; 
deprived, as most in Ceylon are, of easy access to libraries ; and as years go by it will growingly become ' The 
Ceylon BncyclopaoSia ' with reference to agricultural operations. Viewing estate property aa practically a 
permanent iuvostment to any proprietor, the tritiing charge of R12 per annum— a rupee a month — is certainly of 
no account, provided the separate numbera are kept and bound together yearly &a a book of reference 
for the benefit of the manager and his snccossora. In that light; as the property of an estate to be handed 
over just as much as its oflBce furniture, few proprietors would probably refuse to authorise its being taken 
and tiled 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 ' has restored 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 • pnoka ' estates, 
a part of which should be the 7Vo/;/ca/ /Ily^•^^;uZ')^)•^•s^ I find I have gone on writing, but, as 1 am getting 
the Dumbi ro for the past year ready to be bound, the volume is before me." 
Tub Vai-ve of the " T.A." to Ceylou Estate Ownehs. — 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, Ac. is invaluable; it would pny its value over and over again. Owners of 
L-Hlatea phould not leave it to hard-np superintendents to take it in." 
A CoRBic'PoNDENT wniTES : — " I venture to say the volumes of the Tropical Agriculturist will be at 
a premium a few years hence ; it is a book whinh ia boun j to rise in value aj time rolla on, and 
finDsicriberB will probuhly, if thoy so choose, be able to sell at a handsome profit, besides having had the 
benefit of naing the information in the meantime." 
FnoM A rttorniETOR :— "I wonder how many planters know what they lose in not Bubsoribing to your 
wonderful publication ? The coat is absolutely nothing, compared to the convenience of having in a bound 
book all that is interesting and necessary in the literatnre of their calling, Information culled from a thousand 
sources, price liata of all produce sold locally, and home advertisements not seen elsewhere, and a hundred 
other things necessary lor them to see and to know. The T.A, is, in fact, a convenient file of useful 
information daily arining and permanently preserved." 
Silt W. T. Thisleton Dyku. r.ii s., f.l.s., c.m.o., of Kew Gardens Sir Joseph Hooker and myself 
always look out for the succeasivo numbers of the T.A. with eugernesa, and 1 keep a file in ray office for 
reference. It is impossible to apeak too highly of the utility of such a publication and of the way it is 
managed." 
SiH GEonoE Ki.NO, r.ATB OF THE Oalcutta Goveenment Museum: " I know your Tropical Ai/riculturist 
well, having carefully secured every number since the beginning. You have Huccoedecl in nmking it a 
wonderfully oeefnl magazine of information for plantois." 
Simioeon-Majoh Bidie, f.l.s., cf the Govehnment Central Museum, Madraus :— 1 find the TiOjncal 
.^i/ri'Titlinri't a most intorestiog and aseful publication. It finds a place oa the table of our Fublio Library 
and i» much prized." 
