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THE TROPICAL AGEICULTUEIST. 
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^3,654, which would permit of a Dividend of 7 per 
cent on the Ordinary Share Capital called np. 
The Directors confidently expect that this profit 
will be largely increased in succeeding years. 
LARGE HARE SHOT AT PUTTALAM. 
Puttalam, Oct. 14. 
Dear Sir,— I am sending you by this post 
the skin of a hare I shot, on the 20fch ult., 
at Kindeniya., 2-^ miles from Puttalam town, 
and shall feel obliged if you can inform me 
whether you have a record of a hare shot, 
larger than the one whose skin X send you. 
The shot caught her full on the hetid, and 
the animal, when skinned, was found to be 
with young. Please forward the skin to the 
Maha Mudaliyar, Mr S D Bandaranaike, after 
you have done with it, as he may be able 
to say something about it, as a better 
sportsman than he cannot be found m the 
lowcountry. I have seen him bring down 
ten, out of a possible 12, snipe, and his estates 
and forest reserves are always abounding 
with hare.— Yours very truly, 
PfiED, GINGER. 
[The skin, measuring 21 by 18 inches, cer- 
tainly looks unusually large. The following 
is from " Clark's Sport in Ceylon " ; — 
HARES, - 
The hare found in Ceylon is the "black-necked 
hare," lepus nigricollis. The Sinhalese name is 
havva, and the Tamil mvisai. They are found 
almost everywhere, but are uiosb common in the 
sandy coast-forests. In some places in the northern 
parts they can be kicked out of almost every bush. 
They also swarm round the tanks and open places 
and in abandoned over-grown fields in the interior. 
The best time to go after them is at dusk, Tiie 
■weight of a well-grown one will be from 5 to 8 lb. 
Possibly Mr. Clark, as well as the Maha 
Mudaliyar, may have something to say about 
this skin.— Ed T.a.\ 
Elie House, Colombo, Oct, 17. 
Dear Sir,— I have read with interest Mr. 
Ginger's letter to you dated 11th instant, ra 
the large hare shot by him. Prom the des- 
cription given I am inclined to believe 
that it belongs to a breed called by the 
natives " Gona Hawa " ("Elk hare"). 
This species is of an umisiial size, and 
I have come across and shot some on 
my " owitas " on Attanagalla, but they are 
very rare. The genera,l opinion is that this 
large size is due to the result of a mono-birth, 
and good grazing ground on land abounding 
with " Unclupialy" or " Kabbitleaf " (trefoil). 
It may also have been one of this species of 
full growth, if not of venerable age.— Yours 
truly, S. D. BANDARANAIKA. 
CARDAMOMS FOR AUSTRALIA. 
Colombo, Oct. 15. 
Dear Sir,— I feel sure there is nothing 
remarkable in the absence of a direct sup- 
ply of cardamoms to the Southern Colonies. 
With such a limited population, a very 
small quantity of cardamoms would go a 
long way in "Australia. There could not be 
any inducement to ship except on order and 
I expect (Orders would be of a very retail 
nature,— Yours faithfully, 
MBROHANT, 
CEYLON TEA ON THE CONTINENT 
OP EUROPE. 
Kandy, Oct. 17. 
Sir,— I herein enclose for the information 
of those raterested copy of letter from Mr. J 
H Renton to Mr. Rosling with reference to 
Ceylon tea in Sweden, Norway and Den- 
mark.— I am, sir, yours faithfully, 
A. PHILIP, 
Secretary, " Thirty Committee." 
TEA IN SCANDINAVIA. 
My dear Roslinjr,— I have been for the last 1" 
days HI Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and give 
you herewith impressions of my visit. 
SWEDEN. 
Ceylon tea has been well introduced into this 
country, owing to the fact that two or three 
planters are connected with Sweden, and have 
nitrodueed the tea and pushed it through their 
agents ana friends. Some ten years ago the 
Messrs Seton of the Agras began the work, and 
others have followed, viz., Mr Dickson, who is 
himself a Swede, the Lethenty Co., and Mr 
l^uck With the exception of the agents and 
friends of the Ceylon planters, I found onlv one 
other lirra importing tea in Stockholm, and this firm 
has tea only as one of its departments. It is a lar.^e 
hrm nnporting all Colonial produce. I called on 
two other large firms whose names had been given 
to meas tea importers, andfound they did not touch 
the articie. I was somewhat puzzled therefore as to 
how the 216,270 kilos of tea consumed in Swedenn 
got into the country, But when I aottoGothenburo' 
1 found nearly as much tea is imported here as m 
Stockholm, and that tea is imported into Sweden 
through no less than 22 other ports. Detailwl 
statistics are as under : — 
Prom 
Norway 
Finland 
Eussia 
Germany 
Denmark 
Holland 
Belgium 
Great Britain 
Prance 
Total 
1899. 
1,106 kilos 
675 do 
22 
64,598 
55,117 
5,659 
7,201 
67,105 
26 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1900. 
1,242 kilos 
3,.522 do 
687 
60,618 
52,108 
7,820 
14,056 
78,084 
223 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
216,270 kilos 
201,509 kilos 
These statistics give no information as to original 
country of production. Tea transhipped at Ham 
burg, Amsterdam and Antwerp for instance is 1 I 
entered as coming from Germany, Holland and Be 
gium, and these countries figure therefore as the 
countries of export. The population of Sweden is i sd 
d sh'lh"'''°f • 1^'^' «o»B«niption of about i-09 
English lb. per head is very poor, especially when it 
IS considered that the duty is only 50 ore Lr kilo 
say 3d per Enghsh lb. The consumption, 1"°;' 
IS increasing slowly. Ten years ago the quantitv 
imported for home consumption was only 80 oS 
kilos. From careful enquiries, I think, quite 2 
third o the above quantity of 475,794 Enolish 
bs (I should say it was over a thi;d but no a 
half) IS of Ceylon tea. With the exception of the 
quantty imported by the Messrs. Seton's and 
Dickson s agents ma Antwerp and Ham bur- all 
the rest of the Ceylon tea imported into Sweden is 
bought in London. Even Messrs. Seton's friends are 
buying now more in London. The reasons of this 
are mainly, the London market is cheaper, the 
dealer gets samples in advacce of the auctions and 
