4 "TROPICAL ❖ AGRICULTURIST" ^ 
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WHAT IS THOUGHT OF 
THE "TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST." 
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 ua the following explicit testimony to the value of the 
" T.A." :— 
" Since its commencement, I have regularly seen and perused the Tropical Ayricullu.i.t. There can be 
but one opinion that its scope and object are highly important, and that it supplies a distinct desideratum, 
which it is to the interest of every estate proprietor, to have available in the bungalow for the use of his locwm 
tenms, or superintendent. As a magaziiie 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 Encyclopsedia, ' with reference to agricultural operations. Viewing estate property as practically a 
peruianeut investment to any proprietor, the trifling charge of R12 per annum — a rupee a month — is certainly of 
no account, provided the separate numbers are kept, and bound together yearly as a book of reference 
for the benefit of the manager and his successors. In that light, as the property of an estate to be handed 
over just as much as its office 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 caii.uOvt 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 • pucka ' estaiea, 
a part of which should be the Tropical Afiricultitrist. I find I have gone on writing, but, as I. am getting 
the nrnmber* for the past year ready to be bound, the volume is before me,"' 
The 'Value of the^^ TM. ". to Ceylon Estate Owners. — 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 &c. is invaluable : it would pay its" value over and over again. Owners ol 
estates should not leave it to,hard-np superintendents to tsi'ke it in." 
A Correspondent 'writes :— " I venture to say the volumes of the Tropical Agriculturist will be at 
a premium a few years hence : it is a book which, ia bound to rise in value as time rolls on, and 
subscribers will probably, if they so chA'ose, be able to sell at a handsome profit, besides having had 
the benefit of using the info'-malion in the meantime." 
From a Proprietor: — "I wonder how many planters know" what they lose in not subscribing to 
your wonderful publication?. The cost is = absolutely hothng, compared to the convenience of having in a 
bound book all that ia interesting and necessary in the literature of their calling. Information culled from 
a thousand sources, price lists of all produce sold locally, and home advertisements not Been elsewhere 
and a hundred other things necessary for them to see and to know.- The T.A. is, in fact, a convenient 
file of useful information daily arising and permanently preserved." 
Sir W. ,T. Thistleton Dyer, f.r.s., f.l.s., c.m.g., of Kew Gardens : — ''Sir Joseph Hooker and myself 
always look out for the successive numbers ot the T.A. with eagerness, and I keep a tile in my office 
for reference. It is imp6'ssible to speak too highly of the utility of such a publication and of the way 
it is managed." 
Sir George King, late of the Calcutta Government Museum' — "I know your Tropical Ac/ricultiirist 
well, having carefully secured every ntimber»s'ince the beginning, You have succeeded in making it a wonderfully 
useful magazine of infoi-mation for planters." 
Surgeon-Major Bidie, r.L.s., of the Government Central Museum, Madras: — I tind the Tropical 
Agi-iculturist a most intereatiog and useful publication. It finds a place on the table of our Public Lifirar^ 
and is mnch prized," 
