June 3, 1902.] 
THE TROPICAL 
AGRlCliLTIjBIST. 
831 
THE CEYLON TEA SALES OF LAST 
YEAR. 
DECREASE IN AVERAGE AND OUTPUT; 
BOTH LOCALLY AND AT HOME. 
It is interesting to compare the results 
of the local (Colombo) Tea Sales for 190), 
as compiled for our contemporary the other 
day and quoted elsewhere, with the 
Tea Memoranda and London Sales of 
1901, reported by Messrs. Wilson Smithett 
& Co. which we published last month. 
It will have been observed that the 
London average for 1961 is nearly a 
half-penuy less than for 1900, notwith- 
standing the finer " plucking " observed 
at this end and the poor season which 
so largely aided reduction of crop. Look- 
ing over estates, we ob.^erve that in 
some of the high districts the faUing- 
off is more than id. Foe St. Leonards, for 
instance, it is Jd ; but then it gave a larger 
yield by 90,000 lb. last year, but the Min- 
cing I^ane Brokers remark generally on a 
falling oli in Udapussellawa teas, perhaps 
due to an unfavourable season. Badulla 
is a halfpenny better; but the outturn 
was less by 130,000 lb.— possibly in a great 
degree through less leaf being bought. 
Again Talawakelle average is down |d, but 
with more tea by W.OOI lb. It is, however, 
impossible to institute fair comparisons all 
round, without knowing whether any of the 
tea from particular estates is sold in Colombo. 
Possibly 1901 may have seen some sold locally 
that in the previous year went to London, 
and vice versa, ^ 
Turning to the local Sales of 1901, we 
note that the high districts have shown a 
similar falling oil: in the local sales, which 
inevitably reflect the home market to a large 
extent. Naseby, it is true, is actually 7 cents 
aboveitsfigurefor I9ii0; but Monkswood shows 
a drop of 1 cent, St. John's 2 cents, High 
Forest 13 cents (a big drop from the first 
place it held last year with the 59 cents 
that Naseby holds this year), Dunbar, Dun- 
keld, Queensland and Tonacombe 2 cents, 
Mocha 7 cents and Maha Uva 3 cents. A 
rise is shown by only two estates, beside 
Naseby, out of 25 high-grown ; we refer to 
Glasgow (1 cent) and Malvern (1 cents). 
Glasgow showed the large output of 333,500 lb. 
at an average of 46 cents and Malvern 54,000, 
at 37 cents Turning to low grown tea we see 
that here also only three estates among the 
best show an increased average : — Weoya (by 4 
cents), Glencorse (1 cent) and Polatagama 
2 cents ; their outputs were, respectively, 
134,0001b., 148,0001b. and 280,0001b. The output 
of Naseby we should mention, seeing how 
its result stands out amongst the rest, was 
a medium one, 87,000 lb., in proportion to the 
other totals, though this means a yield of 
550 lb. per acre. The biggest yields have for 
the most part been obtained by estates 
showing an average of 31 cents and over. 
But they are all surpassed by two : Yata- 
deria (415.000 lb,) and Kurulugalla (655,000 
lb.) with averages of 30 and 25 cents respec- 
tively; below the 31 cents average the next 
highest is Rayigam (290,000 lb.) with average 
28 cents. Above 30 cents we find the yields 
as follows : — 
Yie^l. 
383,000 lb 
371.600 ,, 
333,500 
325,000 „ 
3-21,000 ,, 
323,500 ,, 
312,300 ,, 
the whole 
Vogan 
Ilifjli Forest 
Glasgow 
Paliagodda 
Agra Ouvah 
Marlborounh 
Cliesterford 
The output 
Average. 
32 centa 
46 „ 
46 „ 
32 „ 
47 „ 
38 „ 
31 ,, 
for 
year is very 
slightly less than in 1900— a dtcrease by a frac- 
tion per cent, namely by 97,065 lb. on 38,442,926, 
but the average shows 1^ cents decrease ; 
this is not so bad as the drop of very nearly 
4 cents that came about in 1900 ; but it is 
bad enough, seeing how low the average has 
sunk in the past 10 years. We give in con- 
clusion, the annual totals sold in Colou^bo 
and averages obtained, for the past ten years 
as follows : — 
1891 
1892 
1893 
1894 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
ANNUAL TOTAL AND AVERAG 
lbs. 
9,578,611 
11,578,869 
14,365,017 
15,723.020 
19,668,116 
25,402,624 
26,512^099 
28,847 212 
32,472,010 
38,442,926 
38,345,861 
^ 
K. 
Cents. 
41 
41 
43 
43 
47 
41 
36i 
35 
38i- 
34^ 
33 
COLOMBO TEA SALES. 
LOCAL AVERAGES 7 YEARS. 
HIGH GROWN. 
1895. 
1896, 
1897. 
1898. 
1899. 1900. 
Cts. 
Cts. 
Cts. 
Gts. 
Cts. 
Cts. 
Naseby 
70 
65 
71 
58 
51 
52 
Monkswood 
66 
57 
52 
51 
55 
St. .John's 
81 
74 
65 
57 
53 
Agra < Juvah 
G9 
01 
55 
52 
51 
48 
High Forest 
56 
47 
49 
50 
59 
Glasgow 
61 
58 
51 
50 
51 
45 
Mocha 
62 
57 
48 
46 
50 
52 
Dunbar 
49 
47 
52 
42 
49 
47 
Middleton 
65 
52 
55 
47 
51 
42 
45 
Queensland 
53 
44 
53 
43 
42 
(jlontilt 
53 
■19 
45 
47 
45 
41 
Templestowe 
56 
47 
40 
38 
42 
40 
Castlereagh 
50 
46 
40 
40 
42 
39 
Tonacombe 
58 
53 
45 
43 
44 
43 
40 
Dankeld 
57 
50 
42 
40 
39 
Malvern 
49 
37 
80 
30 
43 
33 
Great Valley 
52 
42 
40 
34 
42 
36 
Maha Uva 
54 
47 
45 
43 
43 
38 
DeacuUa 
55 
52 
42 
40 
43 
37 
Dauimeria 
56 
J9 
44 
38 
42 
35 
St. Heliers 
50 
45 
39 
36 
39 
37 
Macaldeniya 
56 
52 
40 
38 
39 
34 
Patiagama 
56 
49 
41 
33 
40 
35 
Dickapitiya 
54 
47 
41 
37 
40 
35 
Hax'angalla. 
49 
42 
33 
34 
?7 
30 
59 
54 
51 
47 
46 
46 
45 
45 
44 
40 
40 
39 
39 
38 
37 
37 
36 
35 
35 
35 
34 
34 
32 
32 
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