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TMfe TROPICAL AdRICULtURlST. 
[jONE I, 1892. 
always have jiin the mind honest Sanoho's 
solation th at there is a remedy for everything 
but death, so by dint of importuning the Government 
of Travancore, harassing the Kesident and petition- 
ing the Governor in Council, and out of Council 
the planters have at last the satisfaction of knowing 
that a oart road has been sanctioned, funds 
provided by the Travancore Government, and that 
in a short space of time, carts may come rolling 
up with rice and tea box fixings and rolling down 
with wealth "bejond the dreams of avarice." 
This oart road, which will come out into the 
Ooimbatore plains some 20 miles south of 
Udamalapeta, which again is 40 miles from the 
nearest railway station, will immensely improve 
the prospects of the planters and should lead to 
a very considerable increase in the number of 
properties opened out in these hill s. 
There is no other place in India o- Ceylon where 
such facilities exist for the acqu stion of planting 
land. The Directors of the North Travancore 
Land, Planting and Agricultural Society seem to 
have profited by all the dinnmg and dunning regard- 
ing easy purchase of land ^yblch have been in all 
the newspapers for ever so many years. I learn 
that a man on the look out for land can go up 
to Devacolum, select his block, have his applica- 
tion registered, pay down his inoney and take up 
possession within as short a time as suits his 
convenience. There is no bother about stamped 
application, or waiting till Collector Sahib has had 
the land inspected. The Agent has only to see 
that no one else claims the block, and our 
eager planter can become master of his acres, and 
put down his nurseries, and fell his forest and 
build his preliminary huts— all in the rub of Alad- 
din's lamp. If he ventures in cinchona — and a 
wonderfully cheap and proli table venture that same 
IB, notwithstanQing low prices — there are estates 
all round him where he can decide on the sort 
best suited to his bit of land, and purchase seed 
or plants as may please him. If he goes for coffee, 
he can have his pick of thousands of acres of 
virgin forest all at £15 to B25 an acre. Tea is 
in the same category. 'Tis extraordinary to see 
the output of tea at so high an elevation. Five 
hundred pounds of made tea to the acre off four 
or five years bunches, aud at an elevation of 5,000 
feet too ! However, until the road is fioished, the 
best way for the new man is to go to Ammanaya- 
kanore, on the South India Railway, thence by 
bullock transit to Bodinaiknore, whence a bridle 
path leads to the Land Agent's bungalow at Deva- 
colum. There are, as I say, great quantities of 
forest land at an elevation of 5,000 feet available 
for tea and cofiee, but I must guard your readers 
Irom supposing that there is very much forest 
Buited tor cinchona above 6,000 feet. No doubt a 
few thousand acres till remain, but it is being 
rapidly abscibed by planters, for, in point of fact 
there is now no place either in India or in Ceylon 
where such land is to be got. Pleasure and profit 
attend a settler in these aliitudes, where the delicious 
climate, pure water and healthy life really make 
life worth living; where a man can rear his 
estate and rear bis family and make unto himself 
a home to last for his life and for his son's 
lives ; where he can grow cinchona and tea, and 
make' 50 per cent, on his capital ; where he can 
teach his boys to pull the ibex by the beard, 
and adorn the walls of his bungalow with tusks 
and horns, and where his girls lose not there roses, 
nor his wife pine away with fever and longing 
/or the absent faces— for what shall it profit a 
man if he gain the whole world and lose his own 
health and what can a man give in exohange 
Jpi bia health Mail, April bth. 
NAGAMALLY TEA COMPANY, LIMITED 
(TRAVANCOflE.) 
In submiftiog the report and accounta for the second 
year of the Company's working, the Directors congra- 
tulate the Bharebolders on the reeults provioff better 
than were anticipated. 
AVhen the last Annual Rpporfc was issued there were 
in all 3fc>7 acres under cultivation, of which 120 acres 
arenowiieldingtea, and a small field of some 7 acres 
10 coffee and spioes ; since theo about 220 acres of 
forest have been felled and are low being cleared 
tor planting with tea, and the intention is to go steadily 
on^x'mdmg the area under this cultivation. 
1 be estimate of tea for past year was 60,000 lb. and 
«?a"Pu"^ despatched froii. the estate arronnted to 
D.s,UoU ib. 
The coffee crop for 1891 proved a very short one 
coiopared with previous year, being only 9 cwt. 3 qrs. 
17 lb. ^ 
The spices harvested amounted to 649 lb against 137 
lo 111 1890. 
The ehtimate of tea for 1892 is 80,000 lb and may 
probably be exceeded, and the time has now arrived 
tor the Company to provide itself with a permaiieat 
Factory and with efficient Machinery. Plans and esti- 
mates for these are now being prepared and materials 
collected for an early commencement of the work. 
It is hoped, in addition to improved manufacture of 
the Company's tea, that ihey will secure an extension 
of the mauutacture of tea for neighbours, which it 
will be seen from a credit item in the crop account 
is not unprofitable. 
The amount at credit of profit and loss account 
, is ... £494 12 6 
Out of which the Directors propose to 
pay a Dividend for the jear at the rate of 5 per 
cent, per annum, absorbing 442 2 4 
Lpaving a balance to be carried forward 
of ... £52 10 2 
Of the second issue of 1,000 shares, up to date 325 
have been allotted, and the balance of 675 shares will 
be placed ae opportui ity offers. 
The Board desire here to express their satisfaction 
with the conduct of the Company's affairs by their 
Local Manager, Mr. F. W. Bennett. 
Balance Sheet to December 31st 1891. 
Dr. £ B d £ a d 
To Capital Authorised— 4,000 
Shares of £5 each 20,000 0 0 
To Capital Issued —1,160 Ven- 
dors' Shares £5 each, fully 
paid .5,800 0 0 
840 Shares of £5 each, on 
which £3 lOs has been 
called up 2,940 0 0 
325 ^^hares of £5 each, on 
which £2 has been called 
up 650 0 0 
9,390 0 0 
less Call in arrear (since 
paid; 50 0 0 
9,340 0 0 
To Bills Payable 1,600 0 0 
To Sundry creditors 163 12 5 
To Profit and Loss Account— 
Nes Profit at 31 Decem- 
1890 390 5 i 
lc$s uividend paid 32i 3 6 
77 1 10 
Nett Profit to 31st Decem- 
ber 1891 417 10 8 
494 12 6 
£11,604 4 U 
Or. £ s d £ s d 
ByOuldoorty Estate- 
Amount as per last Ac- 
count 7,708 14 6 
E.vpeuditure during year 
developing New Clear- 
ings 1,664 14 5 
8,373 8 \ 
