April 1, 1902,] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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if any capital what amount prepared to invest '. 
Business letters sliould be addressed to the 
'■ Secretary, Land Settlement Board, Government 
Building, Pretoria," and private letters to Lieut: 
K V Webster, D M T. Government Building, 
Pretoria. Will you please instruct your manager 
to forward my paper to Pretoria ? With salaams. 
P S. — I leave for Pretoria tonight, and will 
stay with Mr Davidson, who, I hear, is very 
busy with his department, as the Colonial Secre- 
tary has been very ill for some months and unable 
to attend to office. 
TROUT ON THE NILGIKIS. 
A correspondeat writes : — " Sportsmen will be in- 
terested to know that a consignment of trout ova 
from Messrs. Andrews, Guildfor j, has arrived in good 
condition at Ootaoamund. The ova are partly Salmo 
fario, 8ud partly Salmo irridens (the rainbow trout 
which has been such a success iu warm climates). 
The greatest difficulties having been overcome, it is 
to be hoped that good luck may be with those in 
whose care the ova are. For several years past nothing 
has been done, owing to various causes, and two con- 
secutive consignments of ova arrived hopelessly bad. 
This year, however, the Nilgiri Game and Fish Pre- 
servation Society was lucky enor:gh to find friends to 
help it in the oi£cers of the Royal Indian Marine, 
and these being sportsmen, and therefore taking a 
personal interest in seeing the ova cared for on board- 
ship, delivered the ova in splendid condition at Bom- 
bay — and this was what money has been unable to 
insure hitherto. Mr Van Ingen, the well-known 
tEBxidermist, kindly undertook the journey to Bombay, 
and it can easily be understood that, at this time of 
the year, constant attendance and an unlimited ice 
supply, day and night, were necessary. Ihe ova 
have been settled in the hatcheries, and should deve- 
lop in about a fortnight." — M. Mail, March 14. 
National Animals. — Our Indian and Far 
Eastern States —says the Spectator — are not 
at all behind the rest of Great Britain in 
their desire to commemorate famous ''natural 
commodities " of one kind or another, but 
the picturesque and the terrible play a part 
in these devices. Pahang takes for its re- 
presentative beast a tiger, either roaming 
or slinking through the jungle. North 
Borneo shows the native rusa deer, an in- 
habitant of its impenetrable jungles of swamp 
grass. The Sej'chelles " sport " their famous 
tortoise under the usual coconut palm, and 
the Federated Malay States a tiger bound- 
ing from the jungle. The Rajah of Travan- 
core emblazons a device which is variously 
interpreted as a sacred shell and a coiled 
cobra. Time will show how many of these 
emblems will become permanently associated 
with the countries which use them on their 
stamps and securities. But it cannot be 
questioned that many of the totems are well 
chosen, and show considerable " grace of 
congruity." It is public feeling which really 
gives currency to any of these fancies. If 
the greater number prove acceptable, there 
will be a very large addition to the zoological 
side of the political cartoons of the future. 
[In the . case of Ceylon there is the sacred 
'Hansa" or goose in the temples, and the 
curious lion on some of the old Sinhalese 
flags as indicating a lion-descender (Sinhalese) 
pace?-ED. T.A.\ 
THE YATADERIA TEA COMPANY OF 
CEYLON, LIMITED. 
THE directors' REPORT. 
The Directors have pleasure in submitting the 
balance sheet and profit and loss account for the year 
ending 31st December, 1901. 
The profit for the year is R56,246 67, to which must 
be added E808'28 balance from 1900, and the Directors 
propose that a dividend of 20 per cent absorbing 
R38,(100-00 be declared, E19,000-00 reserved for work- 
ing capital, and the balance R54'95 carried forward 
into 1902 accounts. 
It will be seen that the property representing 
capital stands in the balance sheet at approximately 
R191'00 per aero cultivated, as compared with about 
E197-00 per acre in the previous year's accounts, 
and that the profit is R59'7l per acre in bearing, and 
29'63 per cent on the capital. 
The total tea crop was 580,108 lb or 13,937 lb less 
than the estimated quantity, the short crop being due 
to a finer system of plucking and unfavourable weather, 
the area under leaf being 942 acres. The total quantity 
of tea for disposal was 601,200 lb. including 21,092 lb, 
made from purchased leaf, of which 382,909 lb were 
sold locally averaging 29"96 cents per lb an3 218,291 lb. 
shipped to Loudon of which 110,482 lb had still to be 
accounted for ; but the average obtained for the 77,809 
lb as yet accounted for is 25 61 cents per lb. The cost 
of the tea per Supereinteudent's Estate Report was 
18"13 cents per lb, and the total cost delivered to 
buyers or put on board ship including all charges was 
19 37 cents per lb ; or, exclusive of Depreciation, 18"S8 
cents per lb ; the nett value realised from sales (a por- 
tion being estimated) was 29 51 cents per lb. 
The Company's property consisted on the 31st 
December, 1901, of :— 
981 Acres Tea. 
Acres lb. 
Tea tea 
172 planted in 1885 yielded in 1901 580 peraera 
208 do 1887 do 627 do 
100 do 1888 do 541 do 
42 do 1889 do 723 do 
6 do 1890 do 857 do 
52 do 1891 do 888 do 
120 do 1892 do 725 do 
68 do 1894 do 687 do 
37 do 1895 do 863 do 
75 do 1896 do 682 do 
33 do 1897 do 333 do 
29 do 1898 do 240 do 
24 do 1899 Not in bearing 
1 do 1900 do 
14 do 1901 do 
22 Acres Coconuts, Rubber & Factory Site 
10 Acres Cardamoms 
255 Acres Forest, &o, 
1,268 Total Acres 
The estimated crop for 1902 is 580,001b. Tea. 
THE TALGASWELA TEA COMPANY OF 
CEYLON, LIMITED. 
THE ANNUAL REPORT. 
was submitted as follows 
Acres. 
Tea in full bearing . . . . 455 
Abandoned .. .. 135 
Cinnamon and Tea abandoned.. 43 
Ravines . , . . . . 113 
Forest boundary belts . . . . 53 
Forest .. ..1229 
2028 Total Acreage. 
The Directors beg to lay before the Shareholders 
their Fourteenth Aunual Report with a duly audited 
