THP TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [September i, 1S90. 
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appearing in last night’s issue of your paper, for 
your information and that of planters generally, I 
beg to send you a desoription of the paper lead 
lining referred to, together with a number of cer- 
tificates in its favor, which you can publish or 
not, as you think proper, I have used the lead 
now for nearly a year in the packing of Gartmore 
and other estates teas, and the reports on the con- 
dition of the tea on arrival in London have all been 
most favourable. Hitherto the lead has been pre- 
pared on the estates by the factory coolies, so that 
necessarily it has cost more than the ordinary lead, 
4 oz. lead being used, but I anticipate that the 
manufacturers in England, when they learn that there 
is a demand for it, will produce it cheaper, i.e. by 
utilizing thinner lead they will produce a thicker 
and stronger lining with the aid of the paper. The 
paper can be purchased in Colombo by those who 
wish to try it in the meantime, and the cost will 
be found to be about 12 to 15 cents per chest in 
addition to the cost of the lead.— Yours faithfully, 
T. 0. A. 
[We give the desoription, and select one or two from 
a number of certificates :~ 
“ Claek’s Patent Tea Lead.” 
This is a new lining suitable for tea chests, boxes and 
packets, patented about a year ago in Ceylon and the 
United Kingdom and applied for in other countries. 
It consists of the ordinary tea lead used in packing 
tea, lined with which may be of any degree 
of thickness, paper and cloth, calico &c., combined, or 
any of these materials with that paper. The objects 
are to better preserve the tea ; to prevent the contact 
of the tea with lead which is injurious ; and to provide 
a stronger and more easily workable lining, which 
cannot be damaged so easily when opening and re- 
packing tea chests. The paper being inside the lead 
lining allows of the lining being soldered and hermeti- 
cally scaled in the usual way. 
Gow, Wilson & Stanton, April 3rd.— “All the Teas 
we have seen so far packed in the new patent lead 
have arrived here in capital condition, fresh, crisp, being 
free from any flatness or damage whatever. In other 
respects we like the lead : it is neat and light, and 
from the accompanying letters it would seem likely 
to become popular with the trade.” 
(One of letters referred to.) 
From Messrs. Somerville & Co., April 25th.— “ The 
teas we have tested with the patent lead kept just 
as well, if not better than the ordinary lead in use.” 
From Messrs. Layton & Co., to the Chartered Mer- 
cantile Bank of India, London and China. — “‘Patent 
Lead Lining.’ — We have examined very carefully the 
lead used in packing of tea from above estate (Gart- 
more), and so far as the condition of the tea is con- 
cerned we are unable to find any particular objection 
to it the smell and taste being sound and good, &e.” 
Messrs. G., W. & S., London, June 27th. — We 
have the following report on your lead from our 
friends, Messrs. H. & E. Musgrave, one of the largest 
dealers in the North of Ireland “We have a very 
satisfactory report from our customers in favor of 
the new lead lining of ‘ Gartmore’ chests. Lead 
is kept in better position and tea not so liable to get 
between lead and wood.” 
—Ed. T,A.-\ 
CATTLE AND CATTLE DISEASE IN CEYLON. 
Kandy, August 1st. 
liEAH Sir, — I have just heard of a new intro- 
duction, into Colombo of cattlo murrain, no doubt 
caused by the cattle coming over from India at 
this inclement season, and being left to stand 
under drenching rains. 
As chokra is developed and propagated among 
human beings, so are animal diseases. Will we, 
in this poor country ever learn that our cattle 
uro our wealth V Where is the Mayor of Colombo ? 
and where W. A. de Silva? who has been teaching 
ere he has learned himself. Has a whole 12-month's 
murrain not taught anything ? are we to be sub- 
jected again and again, until the cattle of the 
country are exterminated? 
A few days ago I met a herd being driven 
along the road (our beef supply), coming 
from the loweountry tanks, where they had been 
fattening — driven under our drenching rains, penned 
into a cold upcountry cattle shed at night ; mur- 
rain developed no matter as long as the tamby 
gets rid of them, he cares not. 
See what the diseased drove, which arrived in 
Nuwara Eliya last May or June, did for the coun- 
try : the contagion they brought is still at work; after 
thousands and thousands of our village and cart 
cattle have been swept away, now another centre of 
contagion has(as report goes)been formedin Colombo 
It seems to be no one’s interest and less anyone’s 
duty to put a stop to this ruin which will sooner 
or later be the means of killing out the goviya 
of Ceylon. — Yours faithfully, TRUTH. 
MR. LIPTON AND THE TEA FUND, 
Kandy, August 16tb, 1890. 
Making Known Ceylon Tea. 
Sib, — With reference to the minutes of proceedings 
of the Standing Committee of the “Tea Fund” 
recently published under the ,ghove heading, I think 
it right to give the same publicity to the enclosed 
copy letter from Mr. Lipton’s representative received 
today. — I am, sir, yours faithfully, 
A. PHILIP, Secretary. 
(Copy); Colombo, Aug. 15th, 1890. 
A. Philip, Esq., Secretary, 
Planters’ Association of Oevlon, Kandy. 
Taylok Testimonial. 
Dear Sir, — Before leaving for England Mr. Lipton 
instructed me to forward you a small donati' n to this 
fund, and I have now the pleasure to send you 
a cheque for R36 (R25 on Mr. Lipton’s behalf, and 
ElO on my own). 
Allow me to take this opportunity of cordially ac- 
cepting the resolution passed at the recent meeting of 
the Tea Fund Committee with regard to Mr. Lipton’s 
estates subscribing to its income. Mr. Morison’s letter 
of withdrawal being written under a misapprehenBion, 
I am happy therefore to tell you that these subscriptions 
will be continued as before. — I am. &c., 
(Signed) Feank Duplock. 
SUCCESSFUL CACAO CULTURE. 
Uva, August 12th. 
Sir, — Your correspondent “ U P ” wishes _ to 
learn the whereabouts of cacao estates giving 
their 3, 4, and 5 cwt per acre all over. 
Of the last named class I know of none, and 
though there may be half-a-dozen exceptions in 
Ceylon — o fortunati nimium agricolae — they are 
situated chiefly, I fancy, in some imginary Eldorado 
(the pagoda tree being grown for shade) existing 
chiefly in the minds of sanguine proprietors. 
But it may interest him to learn that all the 
older cacao under shade in Monaragala district 
gave last year crops of 2! to 3^ cwt, per acre, 
even the former leaving a handsome profit at 
present prices, — Yours, &o., 102s 6d. 
COTTON IN UDAPUSSELLAWA. 
Public Works Bungalow, Delmar Estate, 
Udapussellawa, Aug. 1890. 
Dear Me. Editor,- I send by this post cotton 
from 10 pods of Pernambuoo or kidney cotton 
grown here, as also 4 pods and some seeds 1 have 
