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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [November 2, 1891. 
but I am unable to divulge the writer's name or 
io tell you what he says "; (or this would have been 
wasting the time of the meeting. 
I quite agree that the letter was not intended 
for publioation; but it has not been published, and 
bafl only been seen by or read to the men who 
Were asked to give a verdict on the evidence con- 
tained in the letter. This verdict seems to have 
basn precisely the one asked for and expected by 
Uy. Hutchison, but he seems to have been ren- 
dered nervous by the very measure of success 
which he had achieved, even as we now see our 
Tea Fund Committee alarmed at having secured 
the conviction of those prosecuted for fraudulent 
description.^ and to havo tried to soften things 
down a bit, but whether he (unconsciously) 
encouraged in any way or not your London corres- 
pondent's belief in the private nature of hia letter 
te _ me I cannot say. Apart from this question, 
which I hope these lines will settle, the matter 
seems very simple. The statements on which the 
Tea Fund Committee acted were either correct 
(and I myself firmly believe they were), in which 
case that body was fully justified ia the course 
taken; or they were incorrect, in which case — 
well I '11 let the London Association eettle this, and 
remain,— yours obediently, HENEY WHITHAM. 
COFFEE AND PEPPER EXPOET FEOM THE 
WEST COAST OF INDIA.. 
Tellicherry, Oct. 2nd. 
Dbab Sib, — Along with this we have the pltaanre 
to band you oar annual statement of exports of coffee 
and pepper from the West Ooast for the jear ending 
80th June 1891. 
Coffee, — Our gloomy anticipations of the past crop 
were fully confirmed by results, the export showing 
a decrease of 82,585 cwt. Plantation coffee and 36,459 
9iOt. Native cottee or 59,044 cwt. in all as compared 
to season 1888-89 when the smallest crop was shipped 
from the West Ocast since we commenced to keep 
these statistics in 1879-80 ; so the past season is a 
record one in its mobt disappointing benee. The 
largest quantity of plantation coSee was shipped from 
the northern port of Mangalore which is the outlet 
on the coast of Mysore and North Coorg crops, and 
as usual the bulk of the native coffee was attracted 
to Tellicherry, but the exports from these two pDrts 
eannot be taken as a fair criterion of the actual 
crops of coffee from Mysore and Coorg, as a portion 
cured at Bangalore and Hunsnr is eventually shipped 
from Madras. The Calicut and Beypore exports 
include the crops from the Neilgherries cured at 
Coimbatore. Fortunately good prices prevailed in 
all markets. 
We are glad to be able to report that prospects of 
coming crop are much more encouraging especially iu 
the northern districts of Mysore and Coorg where owing 
to shade, leaf disease is not virulent. A considerable 
quantity of land is being opened up in Mysore and 
seeing that nearly all the older properties in that 
district which for some years past have been under- 
going a state of transition from the old " Chick " 
plant to that of the "Coorg" type aie almost en- 
tirely planted up with the latter, we have every right 
to expect bigger crops from that district at least. 
Peppkk. — Although the quantity shipped of this 
article from Tellicherry was considerable, total exports 
frojn coast were less than last year, and prices are 
comparatively speaking so low, that it is doubtful if 
tlie mcreased acreage of cultivation which has been 
a cliaracteristic of the past few years will be main- 
tained. 
It is hard to obtain reliable information in regard 
to the crop now on the vines, but from what we can 
gather it will be an average one. — Yours faithfully, 
p.piV. ALSTON, LOW & Co., 
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* Also the following :— For London, 340 cwt. Cau- 
nanore Pepper. Vcr Marseilles, -500 cwt. Cannanore Pepper. 
For Bordeaux. 200 cwt. Cannanore Plantation Coffee. For 
Aiicona, 325 ewJ. Tellicherry Peprer For Venice, a02, cwt. 
Cannanore Native Coffee. For Messina, 68 cwt. Tellieheri'y 
Pepper. For Bremen, 55 cwt. Calicut Native Coffee. For 
Turkish, African and Arab Ports 1,125 cwt. Cannanore Pep- 
per. For Bombay and other Indian Ports, 14 cwt. Cannanore 
Coffee, 13,003 cwC Pepper and 41)6 cwt. Badaghen-y Pepper, 
