754 THE TROPICAL AGRtCULTUKlST, [May 1, 1900. 
PITAKANDE GEOUP. 
Mamu'C Experiments from IStli February, 1890, to 31st January, 1900. 
No. of Field. 2 315G7 8 9 10 
P.ii-ticulars of Manure Applied. 
>5 
Tea, .secured lbs, per acre. 781 iOl 
Increased yield over unmanured plot ISOO 
for 
two years. 
Cost of Plucking and Manufacture to f.o.b 
12J cents. 
.4mount realized for increased yield 3 
cents. 
Profit per acre over tlis unmanured pi 
IS'J!). 
Profit per Here over the unmanured plot 
1898. 
T, tal increa.sed profit over unmiinured 
area for two years. 
r Nitrogen 
lbs. per acre of es.sential ingredients in -, Potash 
the manure applied. I, Pho.^. Acid 
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!)31-709 8'.)4-007 9C0 O68 lOofi-nfi irn4-499 10C4-222 
147 110 176 272 2b0 280 
182 148 2;S 343 373 
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1067-795 160:V6n 
2S3 221 
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377 
329 
31-18 
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33- 24 
4t-b0 
iNil 
34- : 
Loss. 
253 
14-02 
39-60 
25-58 
3-86 
29-44 
Nil 
2;s 
42i 
22-41 
63 SO 
40-92 
6-57 
47-49 
44 -iO 
7.T- 
Nil 
3;6 
;96 
35-70 
620 0.53 
3t-6S 35-70 
97-02 100-80 100 80 
63-24 65-10 6"j-10 
19-21 .32-58 
82-47 
44-80 
75- 
42-50 
97-68 
2S-40 
100- 
42-^0 
12-66 
77-76 
70-00 
4S- 
27 16 
3>-.4 
667 
S6-08 
101-88 
65-80 
S8 SO 
104-06 
50- 
10- 
52- 
476 
28-17 
79-50 
51 -c9 
10-67 
62 06 
53- 
10- 
66- 
876 
48-07 
135-72 
t7-65 
6-37 
94 02 
lii4-40 
22-10 
56-00 
THE GOVEKNMEIST DAIRY A>iD 
CATTLE SALES. 
March 23. 
Sir, — I see an atlvertisemenfc in the papers 
that a sale of bulls and cows will t-ike place 
at the Government Dairy on the .31st instant. 
Tliis v;ill only give an opportunity to the NTeolthier 
men to buy tiiese line animals, as there will be 
high competition. I think the Government Dairy 
is not in want, but in a flourishino; condition, and 
has a balance in its favour. Taking the circum- 
stance to be so, would it not be advisable to 
se'l these animals in the different Korales and 
out of the way places— the sale to be open to 
bonafidc villagers only— and stop the sale for 
the 31st instant. By this means the breed of 
bulls and cows in the villages will be greatly 
improved, and this ought to be the aim of the 
Government. Or why not distribute stud bulls 
among the villages by giving tham in charge 
of the Headmen and iVludaliyars. 
I liope Government will not lose sight of 
this suggestion— and a word from your pen will 
go a great way to help in this cause.— Yours 
A CULTIVATOR. 
—[Well worthy of consideration.— Ed. T.A.] 
PLANTING NOTES. 
The CorFEE Market. — Messrs. C. J. Leech & Co. 
in their weekly report on the coffee market, state 
that there has been another week of large receipts 
in Bio, where the rise in exohange would seem to 
be having the effect of attracting the balance of the 
crop from the interior faster than would otherwise 
be the case. In the Bpeculative centres the tone 
has been weak, the large Bio receipts having un- 
favonrably affected the New York market. — Homt and 
Colonial Mail, March 'J, 
Manuring Fhuit Trees in Holstein. — A method 
of fertilising fruit trees in vogue in Holstein is sug- 
gestive, and not unworthy of a trial. The trees, it is 
so id, receive no cuUivatioo, and the fruit is large, 
sound, and produced in abundance. Every two years 
a few wholes are dug in the ground about four or five 
feet from tlie trunk of the tree, and about one foot 
deep, closer and Bhallower in the case of young trees. 
These holes are filled with lifiuiJ manure about four 
limes during the winter months, and for young trfes 
this is diluted with water. If there is more liquid 
manure than is wanted, it is distributed over the 
surface of the orchard, using an old street sprinkling- 
waggon for the porpose. There is no reason why 
manure water should not be used once or twice after 
it is seen what the crop is likely to be ; of course, 
not affording any at that season to trees not bearing a 
crop, or which are carrying only a few fruits, as to 
dose them would be to ancourage, probably, an 
unnecessary growth of shoots. But in this matter, the 
cultivator must be guided by the condition of the trees 
and of the soil. — Gardeners' Chronicle, 
The World's Production of Precious 
Metal.S. — The year 1899 would have been a 
record-breaker in the production of gold, had it 
not been for the conditions in South Africa, but 
it is estimated the production will amount to 
968,000 pounds. The Witwatersrand will prob- 
ably, after peace has been restored, produce 
5,000,000 and the other districts in Africa 250,000 
ounces, or approximately double the production of 
1897. The United States, Australia and Canada 
also contribute an increase, so that the twentieth 
century will commence with a yearly production 
of about 1,C14,000 pounds, of a value of 
$305, .360, 000, which means that the output of gold 
alone will exceed by 5119,000,000 the average 
production of gold and .silver combined in the 
years between 1866 and 1870. From the discovery 
of America up to the year 1899, there were pro- 
diieed 32,514,329 pounds of goW,~Scimtifi$ 
Arnirican. 
