"Step after step the ladder is ascended."— George Herbert, Jacula I'mdentum. 
'Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man."— Washington 
THE 
TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST: 
(ESTABUSHED 1381.) 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF INFORIVIATION FOR PLANTERS 
OF 
TEA. CACAO, COFFEE, PALMS, RUBBER, CINCHONA, SUGAR, 
FIBRES, COTTON, TOBACCO, SPICES, CAMPHOR, RICE, 
AND OTHER PRODUCTS SUITED FOR CULTIVATION IN THE TROPICS; 
Circulating in India, Ceylon, Burma, Straits, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Northern Australia, 
Queensland, Fiji, Mauritius, Natal, East and West Africa, West, Indies, South and Central 
America, California, Southern States, and throughout Great Britain. 
EDITED BY 
The Hon. JOMIN rEKOUSON, C.M.O 
Of f/i^ " Ceylon Observee," "Ceylon Handbook and Directory," "Pioneers of the 
Planting Enterprise," Planting Manuals, "Ceylon in 1903 " (Illustratiid), &c. 
"It is both the duty and interest of every owner and cultivator of the soil to study the best means 
of reudering that soil subservient to his own and the general wants of the community, and he, who 
introduces, beneficially, a new and useful Seed, Plant or Shhib into his district, is a blessing and an 
honour to his country."— Sir J. Sinclair. 
YOILi, X>«:ill:- Containing Numbers I. to XII: July, 1903, to June, 1904. 
CEYLON: A. M. & J. FERGU50N, COLOMBO. 
LONDON-^.- y 
John Haddon & Co. ; Kegan Paul, Trench. Trubner & Co., Ltd. ; Luzac & Co., &c. 
Madras : Higginbotham & Co. Calcutta : Thackek,- Spink li; Co. 
Bombay: Tracker & Co., Ltd. Australian Colonies : Gokdon & Gutch. 
West Indies and Central America: C. H. Calderon, St. Tpiomas. 
Straits Settlrmknts and Eastern Archipelago: John Little & Co., Singapore. 
Hongkong and Yokohoma : Kelly & Co. Java: Messrs. Joh.\ Pryck & Co. 
Bat AVI A : G. Kolff & Co. 
1904. 
