February 2 , i8gi.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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NOTES ON PEODUCE AND FINANCE. 
The Sick Man of China.— The ontlook for Chinese 
tea-growera is gloomy in the extreme. If India and 
Ceylon supply 75 per cent of the tea oonsnmed, and 
this is the estimate, tea-growing in China is a bad 
business. Since Oeylon planters turned their attention 
to tea new life has been imported into the industry, 
so far as British enterprise is concerned. There has 
been no biding of light under a tea chest. The 
advertisement business in various forms has been well 
worked, and so far from injuring their fellow-planters 
in the Indian lea districts by their trumpet-tongued 
announcements, the Ceylon planters have helped to 
a well the consumption of Indian as well as Ceylon 
tea, China is the sufferer, and a very acute one.— 
S. and C. Mail, Dec. 12th. 
STAPLE EXPOETS : TOTALS EOE 
1889 AND 1890. 
From the Customs Tables we take the returns 
up to the end of December. It will be observed 
that last month shewed a good deal of aotivity in 
the shipping of Tea, Cinchona, Cocoa and CoSee. 
The total exports for 1890, according to the Customs 
accounts (which differ from those of the Chamber 
of Commerce) show 44,869,015 lb. of tee, an increase 
of over 11 million lb. on 1889 : 8,720,287 lb. 
cinchona bark, a decrease of 600,000 lb. ; cocoa, 
15,697 ewt., a decrease of 3,000 cwt. ; while coHoe of 
all kinds shows a slight increase : — 
1889.. 
Coffee Plan- 
Coffee Native. 
Coffee Libe 
Months 
tation. cwt, 
cwt. 
rian cwt. 
January 
10,941 
1,868 
19 
February 
12.283 
1,861 
72 
March 
4,567 
799 
65 
April 
1,313 
1,582 
97 
May 
1,215 
852 
70 
June 
4,139 
867 
113 
July 
7,533 
25 
54 
August 
11,608 
181 
90 
September 
2,917 
131 
85 
October 
2,415 
121 
8 
November 
5,6t)6 
268 
13 
December 
... 
12,610 
142 
■ 21 
1890 
77,207 
8,697 
707 
January 
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19 ,857 
966 
258 
February 
16,616 
13 1 
82 
March 
10,463 
606 
497 
April 
1,578 
1,360 
401 
May 
3,056 
726 
734 
June 
4,803 
624 
255 
July 
6,797 
256 
194 
August 
4,324 
42 
207 
b eptember 
1,920 
314 
87 
October 
3,115 
313 
241 
November 
4,010 
1.59 
46 
December 
3,519 
236 
66 
80,057 
5,713 
3,058 
1889. 
Tea, 
Cocoa. 
Cinchona, 
Months 
lb. 
cwt- 
lb 
January 
2,663,041 
.3,915 
1,076,700 
Februar 
2,089, 615A 
2,328 
834,106 
March 
3,522,929 
1,733 
813,345 
April 
■ 2,6j1,082§ 
540 
1,026,177 
May 
3,600,608 
227 
827,732 
June 
3,685.857 
1,130 
559,196 
July 
2,702,2411 
1,210 
365,758 
August 
2,729,904i 
1,553 
1,035,454 
September 
1,604,147 
412 
669,977 
October 
3.030„324 
45 
675,818 
November 
2,615,628 
274 
735,90.3 
December 
2,847,231 
6,262 
715,562 
3.3,752,612 
18,629 
9,325,728 
1890. 
— 
January 
3,293,325 
3,905 
520,311 
February 
3,1.56,.583 
2,111 
741,815 
Marcli 
3,407,883 
1,937 
796,090 
April 
4,122,827 
1,338 
699,921 
May 
4,791,586 
906 
874,050 
June 
4,996,447 
633 
617,942 
July 
... 
5,250,5:^8 
1,077 
058,982 
August 
3.400,975 
G97 
978,762 
September 
2,944.8.83 
8.3 
640.847 
October 
3,143,204 
260 
939,377 
November 
3, 351, .560 
1093 
592,221 
December 
3,003,204 
1652 
579,369 
41,869,015 
15,679 
8,720,287 
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THE AMSTEEDAM CINCHONA AUCTIONS. 
{Telegram from our Correspondent.) 
Amsteedasi, Dec. 13th. 
The manufacturing bark offered at today’s auctions 
contained an aggregate of about 13J tons sulphate of 
quiume, or4'03 per cent on the average, divided as 
follows : — About 22 tons contain 1'2 per cent ; about 
64 tons contain 2'3 per cent; about 101 tons epntain 3'4 
per cent; about 62 tons contain 4'5 pec cent ; about 53 
tons contain 5’6 per cent; about 20 tons contain 6'7 
per cent ; about 14 tons contain 7'8 per cent. The en- 
tire supply was disposed of at some decline, the unit 
value being ; for low-grade barks, 7J to 7f cents per 
5 killo. (= IJd to T§-d per lb.) ; and for high-grade 
barks, 7f to 8 cents (= about l|d per lb.). The fo'- 
lowing were the prices obtained : manufacturing baks 
in quill, broken quill, and chip.s, 7 to 63 cents (= Ijd 
to lljd per lb.) ; ditto root, 16 to 55 cents (= 3d to 
lOd per lb.). Druggists’ barks, in quills, broken qni'I.s, 
and chips, 7 to 89 cents (= 1 Jd to Is 4d per lb.) ; ditto 
root bark from 9 to 37 cents (= l|-d to 6|-l per 'b ) 
The principal buyers in the order of their purfhaso.s 
were the Auerbach factory, the Brnn°'vick work-. ..nd 
the Amsterdam quinine works. — Chemist and Druggist. 
CEYLON TEA AVERAGES IN LONDON 
FOR 1890. 
As the last public sale of Oeylon tea has bepo held 
this year, wo give below the results of Reuter’s ami 
Messrs. Wilson, Smithett & Oo-’e weekly telegrams 
during the past twelve months in tabular form, with 
similar fignres for the previous year, for the sake of 
effective comparison. The first thing that strikes one 
on comparing tho two sots of figures is the wonderinl 
uniformity which has characterized the averages this 
year as compared with last year. In 1889, the aver- 
