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THE TROPICAL AGl^ICULTURIST. [May 1, 1902. 
new clearing (viz. 137 acres) was plucked for the 
first time and yielded 13,500 lb. tea; the whole 
expenditure on new clearings has, ''ie'e*"'"® 
charged to revenue. The small yield of about 100 lb. 
per acre on these clearings largely accounts for the 
diminished yield per acreage plucked as shown 
below on para, 4. The reduced profits are due to 
this smaller yield per acre, to increased expen diture 
on manuring, plucking and buildings, and to a fall of 
rather more than id per lb. in the price obtained 
for the tea. 
4. The following statement gives details which 
may be of interest. 
SCHEDULE or THE COMPANY'S ESTATES ON 
31st DECEMBER, 1901. 
o 
M 
o 
3 
o 
u 
O 
« 
c 
BO 
1901 
1900 
1«39 
1898 
1897 
1,777 
1,640 
1,640 
1,640 
1,640 
lb. 
692-579 
697-369 
644-665 
627-886 
623,699 
o 
% ° 6 
O 
lb. 
390 
425 
393 
ssz 
380 
5 - 89 
4-86 
4-81 
529 
6- 22 
at— ■ 
* n 
u a, 
> 
m a 
d. 
8-37 
8- 68 
9- 28 
9 27 
9-52 
(0 u 
1 ■» 
a.a 0 
» OD o 
T3 ^ O 
E: Si-* 
d. 
per cts 
4 3-16 
4 17-64 
4 9-32 
4 3 16 
fi. 
The net profit for the year 
amounted t© i5,831 12 
To which has to be 
added Interest 153 10 
And the balance 
from last year of 264 15 
Making a Total of 
The Directors have al- 
ready paid out of this: 
Interest for the year 
upon the Mortgage, 
less Income Tax £ 
Dividend for the year 
upon the 6 per cent 
Preference Shares, 
less Income Tax 
Income Tax 
And they propose to 
follows : — 
To pay a DiYidond of 
4 per cent, free of 
Income Tax, on th« 
Ordinary Shares, re- 
quiring 
To Transfer to Reserve 
for Depreciation and 
General Purposes (in- 
creasing this Account 
to £6,750) 
And to carry forward 
the balance of . . 
£«,t49 19 » 
S97 a 0 
1,868 12 • 
375 8 0 
d«al with the balance as 
3,640 0 0 
750 0 0 
318 15 0 
Estate. 
609 
o w 
a a 
Sheen 
Pundaluoya 462 
Woottoa 306 
Deeside 400 
« 
■*» a 
as *s 
112 
15 
£6,249 19 8 
6. The Director retiring on this occasion is Mr 
OharlcH Murray Kobertaon who, being eligible, ofiers 
himself for re-election. 
1, Mr John Smith, the Auditor, also retires, and 
offers himself for re-election.— By Order of the 
J^OMA, RollEKTSON, Bois Sc Co., 
Agents aud Secretaries. 
77 
S3 
8 — 
— 10 
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45 
29 
S9 
" i 
1 
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M Q . 
"3 
O 
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52 
acres 
9a 
634 
do 
25 
78 
do 
26 
456 
do 
Total 1,777 118 
137 
— ♦— 
113 198 a,84S acres 
PLANTING NOTES. 
Cure for Intermittent Fever. —Methylar- 
senate of soda, injected hypoderniically in doses 
of five to ten ceatigrani'ues, lias proved an ex- 
cellent specific against intermittent fever in the 
military Hospital of Constantine, Algeria. Nine 
cases refactory to quinine were cured by it. The 
results of the trial were communicated to the 
Academic of Sciences. — Globe, March 21st. 
Planting Proobess on the Anamalais. 
— We are glad to have a good .account of 
the young district opened on this S. Indian 
range in coffee, cardamoms, cacao f>nd tea : 
all a,re prospering and promise well : 8 cwt. 
an acre crop of coffee on an estate under 
5 years is spoken of. Cinchona (Ledger) is 
also being planted interspersed with camphor. 
There are now 7 resident planters. 
COMPANT Meetings.— Three Comp.any meet- 
ings were held in Colombo today. The 
shareholders of the Drayton Estates Com- 
pany have, it will be seen, appioved of the 
sale of Yuillefield estate to Mr Charles 
Shuttleworth for £9,500. For the filrther 
working of the Plumbago Mining Company 
a sum of RIO.GOO is required and, unless that 
is secured by the end of the month, the 
companv will be wound up. We regret to 
notice that the result of the year's working 
of the Ceylon Tea and Coconut Estates Com- 
pany is a loss of K3,843 3. 
Cocaine in Bengal. — The following notifica- 
tion of the Board of Revenue has been publislied : 
— Cocaine having been declared an intoxicating 
drug under Bengal Government Notification of 
October 23rd, 1900, and having tliereby become 
an excisable article, the sale of it without a 
license has become illegal under Section 11, Act 
VII. (BC) of 1878. and punishable under Section 
53 of the said Act. Ifc is now hereby notified for 
general information that the sales of cocaine will 
not be allowed at all except for bona fide medicinal 
purpose.", and that licences tor the sale of it will be 
given 10 any persons other than approved drug- 
gists and chemists. Druggists and chemists de- 
siring to take out licences should apply to the 
Collector, who will grant the licences, under 
certain specitied conditions, to duly approved 
persons and firms. Druggists and chemists will 
be allowed up to March 1st, 1902, to obtain 
their licence?. After that date the law will be 
put into operation against druggists and chemists, 
as well as against any other persons, who 
may be found selling cocaine without a licence. 
The West-end of London is evidently not the only 
place where the cocaine habit predominates,— 
Chtmist and Druggist, March 
