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THE TROPICAL AQRICULTURfST [August r, 1891. 
HAPUTALE WEST DISTRICT: AS IT WAS 
AND AS IT IS. 
The following account ol the plantations in this 
out-of-the-way district was written for us some time 
ago; but the manuscript got mislaid and bo has never 
been used. The account is, however, of historical 
if not present interest ; but in giving it to cur 
readers, we have secured from a well-informed 
quarter, a supplementary Eeport which brings our 
intormatiou up to date. Here is the original paper : — 
HAPUTALE WEST. 
( Written in 1889 i) 
Bandong Estate. — A omiU place plauted up almost 
entirely with reputed ledgeriaua ; sinoi", oil avaiUble 
bark harvested, and the place is now abandoued. 
Callandeb EbTATE iu the Kalupahsna Valky i aa 
afield of 40 acres of very tiue coffee, which I believe 
gave 600 bushels parchment laat jear, nnd under 
favorable cironmstnccos it onght to do belter this year ; 
it has a oousiderable amount of cinchona Fcattered 
throughout the coffee which has yielded, in shavings 
alon", large quantitieB of lark. Under a systematic 
shaving, from 8,000 to 10,000 lb. of bark, all renewed, 
ought to be procured. About 40 acres planted tip in 
tea last N.-E. monsoon is coming forward very rapidly. 
Mr. Matow's BLr^CK waa originally planted up in 
cinchona, and this after the lapse of a jear or two 
(3 years I think) was uprooted and tlie bark harvested. 
A very email nursery waa laid down with tea seed 
and allowed to take its chauco, and the pUnta in i» 
throve so well, that Mr. Mayow has, I believe, since 
planteld up the whole 50 acres with tea. 
Denegama Estate properly apeaking is not in the 
Hapntale district at all, nor does it in any respect 
resemble the Haputale climate, or sbave the Heputale 
rainfall,— it is decidedly in the Balaiigoda distrift. 
I went over it some three mouths ago with Mr. Smart 
the superintendent. It has over • hundred acres of 
coffee which still bears, and I understand that last 
year's cr op was over 3,000 bushels. It also hai a con- 
siderable area planted up with teaiiaingtwo jears old 
and for growth it will compare with any I have seen 
op here.' I don't know what yield of bark it gave Ia«t 
year, but I should imegine that of renewed ebavings 
they oould get for the coming year say 15,000 lis. 
Part of the store has been converted into a tea factory, 
and plucking will be commtnced shortly if they have 
not alredy startod. 
Kebnagahaella Estate.— The same remarks apply 
here is in the case Denegama : the estate is actuftlly 
within 3 miles of Balnngoda town and distant about 
18 miles from Haldnmmulla. It possesses 30 acres of 
ten in full bearing, besidts a number of other pro- 
ducts, coffee, card«momB, cinchona succirubra, annatto, 
and ortons. The expected coffee crop is 1,060 bushels; 
and I am, I think, within the mark in pultingt tea 
down at 10,0001b. Mr. Bastard informed me that the 
annatto and crotons had yitlded him very handsooie 
crops, and from the latter more especially which has 
given him handeome profits. From snoc rubra he 
ought, with jndieious shaving, to get 5,000 lb. easily 
88 althongh he haa got no large area under cinchona 
what he has is chiefly 6 or 7 years old and his been 
only once shaved. 
Ettbick Estate haa still got lair bearing cotfee, 
hut is being rapidly put into tea. They have been pluck- 
ing leaf for the fa&t nine month", and it is purchased 
and manufactured for Hiraiouvah. The yield is 
increasing, and judging fiom the area which will coine 
into bearing this year, 5,000 ib. ought to be easny ob- 
tained. 1 cannot speak as to the coffee cr cinctioua. 
Gallaoamua is now entirely abandoned, nnd sj is 
also. 
GaucKEBiYA in the Kalupahana Valley. 
HiRALODVAH.— I Can give you pretty accurate intor- 
mation as to probable yield of all products here 
Coffe:-, I estimate at say 1,200 bushels. J ea 10,000 
lb. from 40 acres; cinchona— renewed shavui^s succiru- 
bra, oflRcinali^ and hybrid. Irom 15,000 to 20,000 lb. 
and Cftrd.mr ms from 5 acres 500 lb. T. a promises w.-U 
here and the growth is decidedly gotd. There are 
now 150 ncreB fully planted up with this product. 
LentbAN in the Kalupahana Valley has been almost 
entirely planted up with tea, although Mr. White still 
reaps enough from coffee and cinchnna to enable liim 
to plant tea without diving deeper into his purse. It 
last year gave 400 buthels coffee and about 10,000 lb. 
of shavings f i om cinchona, and it will do better still 
this year as there are some magnificent specimens of 
succirubara on the estate. The tea will not be bear- 
ing for another yehr yet aa it was only last year planted, 
with the exception of a few thousands put out the 
prf'vious year by way of experiment. 
Leyboen is another of the Kalupahana places, and now 
entirely abandoned. It waa partly planted with tea, and 
in i-pite of the chena which nov? covors the whole estate, 
the tta bushes may be seen growing luxuriantly and 
holding its own against all the surroundings of chena, 
weeds, 
M EE SIATENNE , LAST ESTATE IN THE K A LUPAH AN A V A LLEV 
NEAR Haidummulla — Planted in coffee and cmchona, 
but the former is of very little accoui t, and never will 
recoup the money expended on it. The cinch sua is, 
however, remarkably fine, and nothing in Haputale 
that 1 have seen can compare with it. If the value 
of the product is not going to go out entirely, this 
will be one oi the most valuable cinchona properties 
in the island. The estata contained at the lowest 
estimate a hundred thousand of all ages up to six years 
and the greater perce* tage is over 4 years old. The 
trees have never letn shaved, and little or no lopping 
has been done, the proprietor, Mr. Anderson, having 
an id' a that by allowing them to grow as naturally 
as possible the giowth is very much accelerated, and 
that he will eventually reap much larger profits. 
Were he to ehave the whole cinchona, he could, I 
think, easily ch ain :50,000 1b. bark from one round. 
There is no tea on the ettite. 
Nagbak and Niadova, Kalupahana Valley. — Mr. 
Orchard has 10 acres of t?a here which he stid culti- 
vates as regards weeding. It is now rising three year.s 
old, and is being allowed to grow up with a view, I 
think, to becoming seed-bearing trees. If Mr. Oichard 
cared Ue might by plucking it regularly, after pruning 
down, get 3,000 lb. or 300 lb. per acre. 
Nonpareil AND Ugaldua I have never been over, 
and 1 cannot s.peak as to their capabilities- The 
former has, howev k, long retained a good name as a 
coffee-bearing estate. 
West Haputale ie r. 3'v fully plauted with tea, and 
to tho.16 who cast di , araging remarks on the Kalu- 
pahana Valley let them visit this estate and behove 
what they t.ee. The tea is now ciuse on 2 years old, 
and a finer sheet of tea for its age is not to be found 
in the island. It is the best criienon that can be 
brought forward in proof ef the Valley being best 
suited for the cultivation of this product, and we will 
vet, I think see this much despised corner ihe scene 
of buby life. This estate will, ere many yeers are 
over, fully ri pay the etjterprize displayed by the pro- 
prietor, Mr. MiUe, who is in every way worthy oi it, 
lor having stuck t) his btlief in the face of the sur- 
rounding proprietors, one and all, abandoning their 
properties. , . , . . u i.u 
WelatenneIs not yet planted up in tea, but the 
proprietors, I believe, meditate doing so this year. It 
stih contains fome very fine cinchona from whioli a lot 
of bark has been obtained, and it will still yield as 
much if a judicious course of shaving be adopted. 
All the other blocks in West Haputale are either 
not opeued up or have been opened and ultimately 
abandoned. 'I here is no doubt about the entire suc- 
ce 8 of tea iu the Kalupahana Valley, wherever it has 
been tried ; and I think ic is equilly certain that, if 
the article keeps up in price, wt will, ere many years 
are past, see many hundreda of acres fully opened up 
in this product. 
The Report just received says : - 
HAPUTALE WEST IN I89I. 
The detailed lirport on the estate in this district 
written tome three years ago was I think a very 
correct description and I would not attempt to 
give you such a cnefiil Report on the present state 
