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help to confirm the taste, now in its infancy, for 
British-grown teas, and ouoe acquired the taste would 
probably remain. Germany, too, offers, another field, 
where it would probably pay us to lay down very cheap 
blacks, particularly if it is true that tea is in future to 
be served out to the troops, and duty reduced to IJd 
per lb. The taste, once acquired, will not be easily 
given up. The soldiers, when their period of service 
is over, retnrninir to their families, will insist 
on having tea, will introduce it to their 
families, and thus the taste will grow and spread. 
It is by such means as tlia above thit 
I consider we should extend the use of our produce. 
To subsidise shops in fashionable quartern of Paris 
and Rome is to niy mind futile and a mere waste of 
money. We want to catch the masses, not the classes. 
Finally I think greens should be turned out by the 
million and not the 100,000 lb., <and we naturally 
look to the North with its great Companies and h^rge 
resources to show us the way. We are being beaten 
in the race by Ceylon, and there is no reason why v/e 
should be, if we get funds and use them judiciously. 
I may mention here that we down here have been 
much disgusted by the refusal of the I T A in London 
to accept the offer of Mr, P C Larkin of Canada ; 
indeed, we have lost all confidence in that Association. 
The suggestion to form a British Growers' Union is 
excel'ent, and will, I hope, be carried out in the 
near future. 
As regards restriction of output, I have a word 
more to say. One scheme has been proposed which 
has not come before the public, and that is a scheme 
which has been suggested by Mr. Parker, the Chair- 
man of our Association, which is contained in the 
followin;? extract of a letter I have received : — " II 
artificial restrictions are to be imposed I wonder 
no one has thought * (perhaps he has, but I 
have not seen it) of giving the bushes an extra month's 
rest after pruning. It would do the busiies a lot of 
Kood and when the new shoots were cut or broken 
back to the required height, the tea made from the 
first flashes would be of decidedly superior quality to 
that made from ordinnry ' tippiogs ' and thus prevent a 
good deal of common tea being thrown on the market. 
'The shortage too would be gradual all over Southern 
lu'lia and Ceylon and would be regulated by the date 
when different estates pruned their different fields, and 
would extend over a period of about two years. Being 
gradual, no one would feel the shortage ver-y badly and 
the improved quality of the tea (by getting rid of the 
' tippings ') would probably fully compensate for a 
decreased quantity." I must repeat that I regard, 
artificial means of restriction with distrust, but this 
does seem the most sensible yet brought forwards 
provided you can get men to act on it. My pri/ate 
opinion is that you will never get men to act upon 
any artificial method." 
The rest of the discussion on the Indian tea cess was 
conducted in Committee. — M. Mail, July 30. 
CEYLON TEA IN THE UNITED STATES 
OF AMERICA. 
The Biilish Vice-Consul at Los Angelos, in his 
recent report, writes as follows: — "Heretofore 
coffee has been drunk here almost to the exclusion 
of ten. More tea is now being consumed, and 
as ti\e (jnality leaves much to be desired, while the 
price is quite high, I should think when the 
demand increases pure Ceylon teas might be sold 
here to advantage. Several agencies for the sale 
of Ceylon teas have been established in the last 
11 years and have not been successful, and the 
• [Some one has : it was suggested in the Ceylon 
Ohsci ver early in June by a correspondent, signing 
" lndo-Ceylou."-ED. T.A.} 
time is not yet ripe to press the sale of good 
teas. I think, however, that there will be a market 
hero in the iatnre."— Board of Trade Journal, 
July 10. 
TROUT-FISHING- IN CEYLON. 
TWO DAY,S AT THE HORTON PL.A.INS IN APRIL 
1901. 
{Extracted from " Bucollections of Sport" by 
James Cornioay.) 
" I reach the river by 10 a.m. and find the 
water looking rather dark, owing to the rain of 
the previous niglit, but it is quite clear. I pub 
on a small fly, black with red hackle, and some 
silver tinsel in the body. I know of a few places 
where trout used to lie last year, and approach 
carefully. Rainbow may be expected this year in 
addition to the brown, as the streams were fairly 
stocked with that variety during the last season. 
They must all, however, be returned to the water 
if I cha:ice to take any, I had little expectation, 
however, of hnding them in such numbers as they 
proved eventually to be. The first fish 1 caught 
was a rainbow, as nice a trout as could be wished 
for, measuring just twelve inches, and weighing 
about as many ounces ; this may be considered 
very goud growth for a fish only twelve months 
old. All I caught ranged from ten inches to 
twelve, and were in fine condition. Tlieir fight- 
ing powers are too well-kno,vn to need my enlarg- 
ing upon them ; but I would sooner have a one- 
poand rainbow at the end of my line than a three- 
pound brown trout. He gives infinitely more 
play, and is decidedly more beautiful to look at. 
He almost invariably leaves the water three or 
four times before giving in ; and then is a picture 
with the diff'erent lights on his body. The way, 
too, in which they come at the fly, leaves no 
doubt of their intention. 
" After proceeding some distance without raising 
anything, I came to 3 large pool which I knew 
to harbour brown trout, but here again my first 
cast saw me into a rainbow. He was oft' like a 
rocket half-way across the pool, then he took a 
leap of seven or eight feet and was gone. He 
was a fine fish of some two pounds in weight. 
I caught three more in this pool, and returned 
them. The next fish I rose was a brown of about 
one and a half pounds. He came at my fly twice, 
but failed to lay hold. I gave him a rest, changed 
my fly, and tried him again, bub he was not go- 
ing to be caught this time. 
"By three in the afternoon I had almost given 
up hope of catching a brown trout at all as at 
every pool I came to, and generally at the first 
cast, I rose and hooked a rainbow. This, of 
course, disturbed the whole pool, and I began to 
be provoked witii them. By four o'clock, however, 
I seemed to have left rainbows behind, as I hooked 
and landed two browns, each about one pound ia 
weight, within a few yards of each other. 
" Tliere had been thunder in the distance for 
some time, and, as it was coming nearer, I made 
off for the rest-hou.?e ; and a rather sliarp storm 
followed, the lightning being very vivid, and the 
rain falling in torrents. By five o'clock, however, 
it passed oft', and I went out again ; but the 
thunder had aftected the fish, as I hardly got a 
rise, and they were evidently oft' their feed. Ag 
a rule, however, trout out here do not seem to 
mind thunder, probably for the reason that it 
thunders almost every afternoon, and they geb 
