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THF TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[July r, 1890. 
Mr. Pineo keeps a separate accouct of all oasli 
receipts, and sends us weekly statement. The books 
of the company are written up daily and are well kept 
by him. The demand for the tea is showing decided 
signs of increase, and wo hope before the year is 
out, to have a good paying trade established in the 
shop. While the sales are still comparatively small 
there is every reason to be encouraged by the in- 
creasing interest which is being taken. All shipments 
of tea up to that per “ GHenorchy ” have been received 
in good order, and delivered to Mr. Pineo. 
Messrs. Wattson & Farr telegraphed on May Gth 
that there is a fair chance of selling a large block 
of shares, and they asked for the firm offer of 3,500 
till the end of the year. To this an answer was 
sent in the afiirmative, and it is hoped that it will 
result in a largo accession of shareholders and capital. 
The Company’s pretty “ booklets for the American 
people ” to which we referred the other ,day are 
most daintily got up : here are the contents of 
one of them : — 
“TEA SECRETS.” 
American coffee is probably better than coffee any- 
where else in the world on the average. 
Tea is worse, for two reasons: first, your tea is not 
tea; and, second, you make it wrong. 
The two secrets are : the tea itself, iud how to 
steep it. 
There is a third : good tea is in no way difficult in 
the brewing or uncertain in the result — you can always 
be sure of it — nor extravagant. 
It is also easy — you can depend on it. All you have 
to do is to get the right tea and make it rig ht and 
here is all the information you need for both. 
Your money can go as far in $1-25 tea as in 50-cent 
tea ; that is, good tea can be cheap. 
The Tea. 
Good Tea does not come from China or Japan ; the 
good teas of those countries do not come here. 
Good tea is grown in Oeylon by British planters. The 
strongest comes from India. India mixed with Oeylon 
is finer than India. Ceylon alcne has the finest 
flavor. 
India and Oeylon excel China and Japan so much 
that they have driven half those teas from the English 
market. 
One pound of Ceylon or India goes as far as two 
or three of Japan or China ; and every pound of 
British tea displaces two or three of the native 
products. 
The American tea-trade favors Japan and China be- 
cause its connections are there. 
The tea industry in India is modern ; in Ceylon it 
is new. But the adaptation of soil and climate to 
tea is S3 good in Oeylon that that island, half as large 
as the State of New York, already grows nearly hair 
enough to supply the United States. 
But, so long as the American people will drink Japan 
and China teas, so long will those teas come ; for the 
trade is profitable. 
Oeylon is the tea then. 
The Making. 
Make it at table. (The American notion is that 
making tea at table is an English notion. It isn’t a 
notion ; but that is another subject.) 
Heat the pot. 
Pour boiling water into the pot already hot : fresh 
boiling water, water that has just come to the boiling 
point and has not been boiling so long as a minute; 
pour in as much as you want. 
Immediately put the tea iu on top of the water 
and, iu from two to seven minutes, pour iuto the cups 
or into another pot. Don’t let it stand on the leaves 
much longer than seven minutes. 
Use halt or a third as much tea as you are accus- 
tomed to using of China or Japan toa. 
Now that is exactly right. If it is worth you while 
to have perfect toa, that is the way to make it. There 
is no other. 
If you are satisfied with toa a little short of per- 
fection, steep it as usual. 
We are introducing the perfect tea of Ceylon. 
We are the tea-planters themselves. We are inter- 
ested iu your knowing how to infuse our tea to get 
the perfect result. 
The tea-planters of Ceylon are about four-thousand. 
Every one of them belongs to a local Association 
affiliated with a central Association. They have formed 
this Company (undersigned) to trade with the Ame- 
rican people. 
We have the duty of getting your taste upon our 
tea. The way to do it is to tell you how to prepare 
it for the table. 
The Ceylon Planteiis’ American 
Tea Company, Limited. 
No. 4 East 22nd Street, next Broadway. 
Finally, the following is an extract from the adver- 
tisement in The Century and a form of order 
adopted : — 
{Extracts from Advertisements and Circular.) 
Our tea will be a revelatiea to you. You will say you 
never tasted tea before. It costs 65 and 90 cents and 
Sl'25 a pound ; but, you use so little of it, you save a 
good share of your tea-money — in many a family all the 
coffee-money. 
One of the reasons why Americans drink so much 
coffee is that your tea is abominable. You get China 
and Japan teas and steep them to death. Your teas 
are not good ; they are not so bad as they seem ; you 
spoil them with steeping. 
We bring jou batter tea and tell you how to steep it 
— a primer full of tea-knowledge. 
Please send to Mrs. 
No. 
lb; Bud Brand Tea at $1-25 
lb. Tiffin “ “ <90 
lb. Buugaloe “ “ ‘65 
Sample, “ 
lb. Ceylon Coffee “ '50 
♦ 
HORSE-POWER. 
With the universal use of the steam engine the 
term horse-power has come to be very largely used, 
but, although its employment is so frequent and 
general, very many people are in doubt or ignorance 
of what the expression really means. Everyone 
knows that an engine requires a certain power or 
force to work it, differing, however, according to the 
nature of the engine. In order to measure this power 
it is necessary to adopt a certain standard. This 
standard goes by the name of horse-power. One 
horse-power is equal to 75 seconds killogramme- 
metre, that is to say, that in 75 seconds a weight of 
I kilo, can be lifted 1 metre high, or inversely, in 
1 second 1 kilo, can be lifted 75 metres high. Take, 
for example, an engine, whether impelled by steam, 
gas, or compressed air, of 6 h.-p., according to the 
above rule such an engine must possess a power to 
raise in 1 second 6 X 75 kilos.=450 kilos, exactly 1 
metre high, or, to put it in another form, a working 
machine which requires 6 h.-p. to keep it running 
must be worked by a falling weight of 6 x 75 kilos.= 
450 kilos., which in ] second will have fallen exactly 
1 metre. If the falling distance per second be 
greater than 1 metre the weight must be smaller ; 
the motor raises in 1 second 75 kilos. 6 metres high, 
or 6 kilos. 75 metres or 25 kilos. 18 metros high, or, 
putting it in the other form, the working machine is 
driven by a falling weight which in 1 second falls 6 
metres and weighs 75 kilos., or falls 18 metres with 
a weight of 1 kilo. The whole of these performances 
would represent 6 horse-power. The power of a man 
is reckoned at 13-18 kilogramme metre, according 
to the work required. In turning a wheel round six 
men are considered as equalling 1 h.-p. From this 
it will be perceived how advantageous is the employ- 
ment of mechanical power, even when but a moder. 
ale force is required. — Indiamhher and Electrical 
Tradts Journal, 
