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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Feb. 1, 1900. 
Association commended to the support of 
the Planting Community and Europeans 
generally. The establishing of Rural Police 
in the Northern districts seems to have 
been attended with good results, the ex- 
perience of the honorary secretary being 
that thefts of cocoa in the field had stopped 
since then. 
TEA MOVEMENTS FOR THE WHOLE 
YEAR. 
Indian 
Ceylon 
IMPORTS. 
1899. 
lb. 
140,646,100 
96,188,170 
1898. 
lb. 
138,874,490 
94,319,832 
236,834,270 233,194,322 
Indian 
Ceylon 
Indian Increase 
Ceylon do 
Total Increase 
DELIVEEIES. 
140,481,161 
94,225,004 
1,771,610 
1,868,338 
3,639,948 
139,089,130 
93,488,012 
234,706,165 232,577,142 
Indian Increase 
Ceylon do 
292,031 
736,992 
Total Increase 
In 1893 Imports exceeded 
1894 Deliveries do 
1895 Imports do 
1896 Imports do 
1897 Imports do 
1898 Imports do 
1899 Import? do 
Lyall Anderson & Co., 
E.G.. 2nd January, 1900. 
1,129,023 
lb. 
6,187,414 
3,389,982 
4,809,479 
5,302,280 
5,803,183 
617.180 
2,128,105 
16, Philpot Lane, London, 
Deliveries by 
Imports by 
Deliveries by 
Deliveries by 
Deliveries by 
Deliveries by 
Deliveries by 
ISSUED BY THE TEA BEOKERS' 
ASSOCIA.TION OF LONDON. 
3rd January, 1900. 
Stock on 31st December, 1897, 1898, and 1899. 
Stock. 
1897. 1898. 
China Tea ... 19,056,000 .. 17,325,000 
Japan ... 110,000 . . 104,000 
Jara ... 598,000 ... 535,000 
18,980,000 
156,000 
482,000 
for sugar in the Northern or Eastern divi- 
sions of the island. We have been collecting 
information for Mr. Turner who was 
likely to visit Anuradhapura last week his 
further movements being determined by 
what he may see and learn. — Then the 
"Clan Sinclair" to Galle brought from 
Beira, East Africa, Mr. Hornung, of 
Zambesi, and two Rhodesian friends, unable 
to get away via Delago.a Bay : they had to 
travel northwards to Beira and take this 
Clan boat. Mr. Hornung has a Sugar Estate 
on the Zambesi, but is interested in Rubber 
and other products, and has had our Tropical 
AqricuUiirist for the past 12 years. He went 
home by the Orient steamer last week : 
and visited Heneratgoda and Peradeniya in 
the interval. 
Indian Tea 
Ceylon Tea 
African Tea 
19,764,000 . 
61,673,000 , 
16,629,000 . 
30,000 . 
17,964,000 ... 19,618,000 
61,319,000 ... 61,484.000 
17,224,000 ... 19,187,000 
55,000 ... 21,000 
Total 
, 98,096,000 . . 96,562,000 . .100,310,000 
Black 
Green 
lb. 
95,095,000 ... 92,921,000 ... 97,704,000 
3,001,000 ... 3,641,000 ... 2,606,600 
SUGAR-PLANTING IN PENANG, ON ZAM- 
BESI AND IN CEYLON. 
We have had a couple of very interesting 
interviews lately. First, our friend Mr. 
Turner, of Penang (who, with Mrs. Turner and 
family, arrived by the "Oceana" on the 23rd, 
ult. to give a fortnight in Ceylon) is here, 
e,s promised, to enquire about land suitable 
CEYLON PRODUCE IN LONDON. 
(From Wilson, Smithctt A Co.'s Circular, 
January 5th.) 
COCOA. — The market has remained closed as re- 
gards auctions since December 19th, and although a 
firm tone has existed throuj?hout the interval, the 
volume of business on the spot is small cose- 
quent on the paucity of supplies, while for- 
ward business is limited by advancing quotations, 
although some transactions were effected at higher 
rates. The arrivals of new crop Ceylon are in- 
creasing and this growth is likely to form an im- 
portant item at the opening sales ou Tuesday 
next, but in the meantime business is confined to 
200 bags, low at 61s to 62s, fair to good at 703 to 
80s per cwt. 
CINCHONA BAEK.— The first auctions of the 
year in London are fixed for January 16th. Those 
in Holland for the 11th instant, when a total of 
7,540 packages is advertised. This total compares ■ 
with 7,(187 packages analysing .3'14 per cent at the 
last sales, and 8,090 packages averaging 5'29 percent, 
at the first series of 1899. The shipments from 
Java in December are telegraphed as only 626,000 lb. 
(Dutch), beins as much as 400,000 lb. below last 
year : the total for the year, given below, is only 
a quarter of a million pounds over 1898. During the 
past year the fluctuations in the market value have 
been very wide, the net result at the close of the 
year being to leave prices higher by 50 per cent 
than at the commencement. 'i'he year opened at 
the first sales with the unit value Id, but on the 
shipments from Java in January and February 
shewing an important falling off, prices i-apidly ad- 
vanced, culminating at the end of March in a unit 
of 23d, which was the highest price touched 
during the year ; from this date onwards, under 
the influence of the larger shipments from Java, 
which the rise in value induced planters to make, 
the market gradually reacted until at the October 
sale the unit bad fallen again to 1 l-16d to Ijd. 
In the remaining two months of the year, stimu- 
lated by an active world's demand for the manu- 
factured producet and by the fact that notwithstand- 
ing the great pecuniary inducements held out to 
Java planters during the year, their shipments had 
only exceeded the previous year's by a Jittle more 
than half a million pounds, tending to confirm the 
view held in many quarters that the normal harvest 
was being somewhat inflated, prices again rapidly 
advanced until IJd the unit was paid at the 
December sales. The market is thus shov/u to be 
exceedingly sensitive, any slight curtailment of sup- 
plies having at once an apparently abiioimal effect; 
should the sapplies in the current year be no larger 
than in 1899, a further enhancement in values may 
be expected, and stocks in London and Amsterdam 
