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WHAT IS THOUGHT OF 
THE "TROPICAL AQRICULTUTI5T." 
For cultivators of New Products, it is invaluable, telling us so much that is doing in other cojmtries with 
the results of their work in Rubber, Fibres, Tobacco, Cotton, Camphor and other Spices, &c. — " PlanteV." 
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 us the following explicit testimony to the value of the '"T,A.":^ 
"Since its commencement, 1 have regularly seen and perused the Tropical Ayrkultwi-lst. There can b« 
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 properietor, to have available in the bungalow for the use of his locum 
tenens, or superintendent. As a magazine it provides varied and instructive fresh literature at intei-vals ; 
deprived, as most in Ceylon are, of easy access to libraries; and as years go by it will growingly become 'The 
Ceylon Encyclopaedia' with reference to agricultural operations. Viewing estate property as practically a 
permanent investment to any proprietor, the trifling charge of Rs. 12 per annum— a rupee a month — is certainly 
of no account, provided the separate numbers are kept and boimd 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 filed regularly (if the periodical was brought under their notice), more especially as on looking over the 
most recent volume one cannot 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 tie office and connected equipment so advisable on all 'pucka' estates, 
a part of which should be the Tropical Agricvltnrist. 1 find 1 have gone on writing, but, as 1 am getting 
the numbers for the past year ready to be bound, the volume is before me." 
Thjs Value of the "T.A." to Ceylon Estate Owners. — A planting correspondent wrote sometime 
ago ".—-"I think proprietors should supply everv tea estate with the T.^. 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 of 
estates should not leave it to hard-up superintendents to take 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 is boimd to rise in value as time rolls on, and subscribers 
will probably, if they so dioose, be able to sell at a handsome profit, besides having had tke benefit 
of using the information in the meantime." 
From a Proprietor : — "I wonder how many planters know what they lose in not subscribing to your 
wonderfiil publication? The cost is absolutely nothing, compared to the convenience of having "in a 
bound book all that is 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 seen 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 pennanently presei-ved." 
Sir W. T. Thistleton Dyer, i.r.s., f.l.s., c.m.g., of KeW Gardens: — "Sir .Joseph Hooker and myself* 
always look out f oi' the successive numbers of the T.A, with eagerness, and 1 keej) a file in my office for refereucp. 
it is impossible to speak too highly of the utility of such a publication and of the way it is rnajiage<l." 
Sir George King, late of the Calcutta Government Museum:— "I know your Tropic/tl 
Agricidturiif well, having carefully secured every number since the beginning. You have succeeded in maKing 
it a wonderfully useful magazine of information for pLinters." 
Surgeon-Major Bidie, f.l.s., of the Government Central Museum, Madras ;— I find the Tcopico/ 
Agricnltvrisl a most interesting and useful publication. It finds a place on the table of our Public Library 
and is m«eh prized," 
