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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Dec. 2, 190L 
pods from Franklandf? when he planted cacao, and 
sold to Mr. D FairsveaLlier 6,500, prior to February 
189j, for K itugastota when he sold the estate to 
Messrs Finlay Muir & Co. I had three Trinidad 
plants s;iven 'nie by Mr. F M Maekwood in 1878. 
These I planted on Maria; when he ^ot 12 plants 
from Trinidad, balance were planted on Goonambil 
by me. I also got some seed pods from Goonambil 
afterwards from those plants for plantinj? on 
Franklands. 
As Mr. Youno poses as possessing good cacao 
trees with large pods, let us now see the other 
side: — On same date that he wrote the letter 
"Kudos &c." on 28th Oct., there was a ca-^e 
against him in D C Kandy for trial in which 
I was a witness for plaintiff where one Manick- 
rala sued Mr. Young for 2 years' lease money 
due, on a land said to be 3 acres in extent, 
taken on lease by Mr. Young in 1891, to have 
land 5 years free, then to give one-third profit each 
year from tlie whole land. The claim was for the 
one-tliird profit for ohe 2 years 1899 and 190) put at 
R250. Mr, Young had planted same with cacao 
and tea in 1891 and had 16 old coconut trees on 
the land, which was almost flat. 
Cacao planted 8x8 with tea between, 600 trees 
to the acre (roads, etc., deducted) Mr. Young 
tendered K.73 78 as the one third profit for two years 
on this garden of three acres or say (one-third 
of 3 acres is) 1 acre, profit as per Mr. Young's 
account R36'89 per annum. Coconut income would 
115 per annum — (tea not counted) leases cocoa 
1131'89 profit, add working- K40 or K71 89 income 
from cacao ; this at R40 per cwt would only be 
1| cwt or even say 2cwt crop per acre. This from 
cacao trees on a flit land, in ^ood deep soil and 
well sheltered, in its eighth and 9bh year (?) where 
such trees must have given at least between 4 
and 5 cwt per acre: here "Kudos" wishes to 
show poor result of his bearing cacao, so to pay 
less rent where in his letter he wishes to take 
credit for large pods. Upkeep would not have 
exceeded R40 per acre as cacao was in its prime 
and healthy: fiat land, no wash, no weeds op 
roads and drains, expenses and no supplies required. 
Measurements of some of the large cacao trees 
" Forestero" on Franklands : — 
No. Height. Spread. Girth. From Ground- 
1 331 ft. 26 ft, 2 ft. 2 in. 2 ft. 
2 31 ft. 32 ft. 2 ft. 4i in. 2 ft. 
8 83 ft. 33 ft. 2 ft. 7 in. li ft. 
4 30 ft. 31 ft. 2 ft. 8 in. 1§ ft. 
5 261 ft. 20 ft. 2 ft. 4 in. (2 stems) 2 ft. 
6 23 ft. 25 ft. 2 ft. 4 in. do ^ ft. 
No ^5 is at 1 ft. above ground, 3 fc. 4iu girth 
then, as 2 stems girth 2 ft. 4 in. each. 
So far back as the Matale Exhibition in 1887 
I send a broad basket full of large selected cacao 
pods weighing from 2} to 31b with a card sent 
lieretwith : "Cocoa pods from Franklands estate 
Wa tegama. 
" N.B. — This variety of cocoa is very hardy 
and prolific, well suited for natives to cultivate.' 
On this card was written :—" Not according to 
condition. Prize for native garden-grown pods 
only." Hir/hly commended by the Committee.— 
Yours faifchtully, JOSEPH HOLLOWAY. 
P.S. — Please refer to my letter to you of 16th 
Oct. when I sent you eight pods weighing as per 
your remarks lOth and the heaviest one was 2Jlb. 
You were also ))leased to say: — "This is cer- 
tiiuly the finest collection of cacao pods we have 
ever seen. We shall try that all interested in 
the Fort shall see tUein. ' ' Dr, Duke visited Frank. 
lands on lOth December 1893, walked over the 
estate, could not believe ray cacao would bear like 
that, both the crop already in and what wa- on the 
trees, yet with weeds from 2 to 3 feet high. These 
I told him I let grow to help on my trees in 
preventing wash, hacking them down and using 
them a? manure, and it was a very great help to 
work up pumped out chena land by dig"ing them 
up and liming soil.— J. H. 
COTTON CULTIVATION IN CEYLON. 
Colombo, Nov. 11. 
Dear Sir,— With reference to your .article 
about "Cotton Cultivation in Ceylon" 
(see page 393) we herewith beg to 
hand you a pamphlet entitled "Cotton 
Cultm'e " published by the New York 
branch of the German Potash Svndicate 
whose sole agents we are for Ceylo'n. You 
will observe that the book, which contains 
90 pages and many interesting- engravings 
IS very instructive and will bo of great use 
to everybody who has an interest in cotton 
cultivation, We shall be pleased to siipplv 
a pamphlet free of charge to all planters 
who will ask for it.— Yours faithfully, 
FREUD EN BERG <fe Co. 
POISONOUS SNAKE-BITES. 
Mr Robert Miller, writing from the offices of 
the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company under date 
October 17, sends us the following interesting 
extract from the narrative report of the compay's 
medical officer in India for the montli of August • 
—"On the night of the 23rd I was called to 
see a coolie woman who had been bitten by a 
large snake, supposed to be a cobra. She was 
said to have been bitten at about 7 p.m., and I 
did not see her till two hours later. She was 
then practically moribund, the tinoat paralysed 
and consciousness completely lost. All the symp- 
toms of poisoning by colubrine venom were well 
marked. I injected a full dose of Dr Calmettee' 
antivenene. but was not sanguine as to the results 
the patient's condition being apparently hopeles , 
The effect of the remedy was marvellous; con- 
sciousness returned in 15 minutes, and I was so 
encouraged by the result of the first injection that 
I decided to give another dose of the serum. Id 
acted like magic, and within three hours of the 
first injection the patient was well. Dr Sen my 
assistant surgeon, was present at the time. I 
have sent the notes of the case to fir L Rogers 
the professor of pathology to the Calcutta Medical 
College, and propose to also .send a report to Dr 
(^almette, who is, I know, always glad to hear of 
cases_ in which his remedy has been used. I am 
satisfied that in even desperate cases we have in 
Dr Cahnette's serum a really reliable remedy for 
the bites of poisonous snakes, and I propose to 
supply all assistant surgeons with a syringe acd 
some bottles of serum. At present only this" place 
and Chakardharpur are so supplied. I am now 
convinced that the ease reported by me in May 
would in all probability have been saved had a 
large dose of the serum been injected and had the 
patient come under treatment earlier,"— London 
Times, Oct. 21. ^ 
