September i, 1891.1 rm TROPICAL AQKlCULTUmST, 
2*5 
The Import of Tea and Wheat.— Aecorcling to the 
Boird of Trade KetuVDs for July, the quantify of tea 
received from China is nearly £3,000,000 greater than 
in the corresponding month of last year, but the 
consumption here of that kind of tea again shows a 
decline, Ceylon tea being more and more in demand. 
As to wheat, Russia sent only 073,303 cwt. against 
2,406,055 cwt. In July 1890, but British India sent 
nearly as much again last year, the quantities being 
1,555)556 cwt. and 888,975 cwt. respectively. 
Tba in Burmah.— Tea planting operations in Burmah 
do not thrive so well as they should. There were five 
tea plantations in the Province at the end ot last 
year ; but the area under the tea plant was only 
seventy-eight acres against 172 acres in 1889, the 
fallincf off being attributed to the want of sufficient 
labor for one or two of the plantations. The out- 
turn of mannfaotured tea also dropped from 12,250 lb. 
in 1889 to 5,710 lb. in 1890. 
FoooHOW Notes. — Teamen are not, we understand, 
grumbling at th? result of their ventures this year, 
indeed they are well satisfied with the out-turn of 
oommcn teas and second crops, but it makes them 
wince to find that their profits are simply carried 
to their credit in account to meet the heavy looses 
of the past two years, instead of having them to 
put into their pockets. — Daily Hclio. Aug. 1. 
Planting in North Borneo. — The Sbnjupore 
Free Press of 13th Aug. in an article on North Borneo 
says : — 
A favourable feature is the way in which the Chinese 
coolies are taking up land for themselves, and settling 
clown permanently on North Bornean soil. One parti- 
cularly interesting instance is that of a party of Hak- 
kas, a tribe of Chinese who are, as a rule, really good 
agriculturists, now engaged in the cultivation of Liberian 
coffee on their own account. Thpy took up some land 
in 1883 and planted coffee, cultivating also vegetables, 
ground nuts and other produce, which they were able 
to dispose of readily and thus keep themselves going. 
That little community, nearly" all Wesleyan converts, it 
may be stated, have year by year added to the area of 
land under coffee, until they have now no less than one 
hundred and seventy acres bearing Liberian coffee, and, 
it is repotted on good authority, will by the end ot 
1892 have actually four hundred acres devoted to 
growing coffee. This single instance, a very promising 
one, indicates that the Ohinesa are readily and 
spontaneously taking to settlement and cultivation 
in North Borneo. It also shows that, independent 
of the bad luck or the mal-administration of Europe 
ventures, coffee may before long become an important 
article of export from North Borneo. That these 
(Jhinese labourers, without capital, and living from 
hand to mouth, should devote themselves to an 
agricultural experiment in coffee on so large a scale 
ought to be taken as an encouraging sign by plan- 
ters proceeding to Borneo who have capital to back 
their enterprise and carry them through all the 
initial difficulties. Coffee prices are very encoura- 
ging just now, and the production in several important 
fields has fallen away, so that the future of coffee 
cultivation in this part of the world seems to be 
full of promise. In Ceylon there is little or no 
suitable virgin soil in the hands of the Government, and 
Ceylon investors who are turning their minds to coffee 
are beginning to look abroad for some promising region 
where they ujav utilise their capital in planting. It is to 
the Straits and Borneo t'lat attentionis now being turned. 
The ten agricultural land grants, which the Perak 
Government oft'eioJ on specially liberal tcnis, have all 
byen applied for, chiefly by Oej Ion men, wo h-a-. And 
North Borneo is also apparently a'uuut ':o profit by this 
inoreascil attention given to the opening np of new 
firoHS to tclteo cuUivition, for wo aro iuforroel that 
thoioaro prospects of the eurly investraout of capitvl, 
from Cnylon and elscwltero, in the raising of Lil ciriiia 
coffee there on a conaidorable sole. If North Eo-nro 
has, thnuifih circumstances avoidable an 5 otherwise, 
not nHftinnd any distinct success yet in tobncoo, it may 
find its ropntalion, as a fuild fur onterpr'.so, vindicated 
before long in tho direction of coltoc. 
Inferior Ceylon Tea.— The Madras Mail 
of 18th August has the following :— 
The following passage is from a London toa-agent'a 
letter :■— " Some mess from Oeylon, which they call tea, 
has been sold at Id asd and 2 Jd per pound, and we are 
to have, they say, continuous supplies," Whereupon 
a contemporary remarks :— "Cevlon is about to kill tea 
88 it has killed coffee. Not having a particularly fine 
soil, but an exhausting climate, the growers give the 
plant no rest, with the result that the value of their tea 
is falling yearly, and, unfortunately, in forcing down 
prices it brings down with it for the time being all other 
classes of tea." 
The contemporary referred to is ws believe the 
Englishman. The Madras Times in quoting the 
extract says : — 
This policy of flooding the markets with worthless 
leaf is most shortsighted, and we wonder that the 
Ceylon Planters' Association do not at once take the 
question up. 
We think that there can be no doubt that a good 
deal of very inferior tea has been sent home lately 
from Ceylon, as proved by the brokers' reports 
and low prices ; but that the pessimistic forebodings 
of the Calcutta paper (representing the Bengal tea 
planters) are likely to come true we certainly do 
not believe. However, our tea planters should be 
careful not to give their enemies an excuse for ill- 
natured remarks. 
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