THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST, 
[May I, 189I. 
760 
Kodanaad Estate, Kotagiri.— (2 exhibits) No. 1. 
Valuation Is 2d per lb. Small close blaok Pekoe le.si', 
lair tip, rather brisk, light. 
No. 2. Valuation lid per lb. Dark Pekoe kind, 
rather broken, lair tip, fair strength, rather coarse, 
poor quality, 
Glendale Estate. Ooonoor — (2 exhibits) No. 1. 
Valuation I 9 Gd per lb. Rather bold, curly Pekoe 
lent, fair trip, brisk, good flavor, light. 
No. 2. Valuation 2s 2d to 2s 4d per lb. Small Pekoe 
loaf, good tip, little full brisk, good flavor. 
TereaMIA Estate, Ooonoor. — Is 5d per lb. Curly 
dark Pekoe kind, rather broken, mixed with ends, little 
flavory, liquor wants pungency. 
Paury & Co., South Wynaad. --Valuation lOd per 
lb. Dark mixed Pekoe leaf, rather stalky, mixed with 
ends, thin, poor quality. 
Glendale estate obtained tho gold medals and Wood- 
cote estate the silver medal . — Madras Times, March 7, 
THE DEMOEALIZED QUININE MARKET 
IN AMERICA. 
The action of one of the manufacturers in reducing 
the price on small packages of quiciue to a figure very 
close to the quotalion for bulk has completely unsettled 
the market without apparently causing the increase 
in the demand usually following closdy upon such a 
radios! change. There seems to be nothing in the posi- 
tion warranting fuch a decided departure from ordinsry 
praotiers, and the explanation given in our market 
report hat week, that the step was instigated by the 
recent publication of the views of a former manufac- 
turf r, ecaompanied by an offer to sell small packages at 
unusual low prices, appears in the ab-enea of more 
definite reasons to have furnished the incentive for the 
move. Since the break was announced with as much 
publicity as the parties makiog the aiiQCuucfmeut could 
command, it has been met by most of the agent.s of the 
foreign makers and that fact h s resulted in a further 
decline. The price first named on five ounce packages 
by the domestic manufacturer referred to was twenty- 
five cents not, but the subsequent competition impelled 
him to offer an extra induceme nt to jobbers by allowing 
them a discount of five per cent. One of the foreign 
brands is row offered at twenty-four cents, less one per 
cent for cash and it has been intimated that some sellers 
might accept even less. The fact that buyers have not 
responded with any degree of alacrity to the flatter- 
ing propositions made by the sellers has robbed the 
situation of some of its importance. The apathy of 
the jobbers is pr.jbably due to their knowledge that 
retailers, under the exisliog- condition can do almost if 
not quite as well as they and that they therefore havo 
no iuducement to buy more than they need to fill 
current orders. 
The market for bu’k goods in spite of circumstances 
that should contribute to a weak feeling is fairly steady. 
At the same time speculative interest is almost entirely 
withheld and were it not for the brisk consumiug 
demand cnu.sod by the presence of the grip and malarial 
diseases in the South and West, the market would 
presentadull appearare.e. Blany are dispo.sed to believe 
that the present war of rates is only a temporary mat- 
fr?r and that it will he foUowcl 1>y a very decided re- 
action during the spring if not sooner — New lorh Drug 
D. MORRIS, iW A., E.iv.S. 
/From the Jamaica Cleaner, with a p'irtr.iit.) 
Mr. D. Morrip so favourably known and esteemed 
in .Jamaica, was anotber of tin' prominout piTsonnges 
who arrived yosterday in tlio packet from Barbailos. 
Mr. Morris is on a special tour of the V ost Indie.s for 
tlie purpose of encouraging the agricullmal i'ldin-trics 
in theso islands and increasing the nsofulncsn f llie 
sevoral botanical stations. n» has visited most i { etir 
sist'T isIhtiiIs and baa delivered iiddresseH to largo 
audiences in cai'li, stirring up Uii ir intcront in tlio 
industries |i<enliar to tlm island llicy livo in. litre 
also no doubt wo shall eec and here a good deal of 
fne at Jamaic.i’s warmest fiiends. It may not be 
omiss to give a few brief details of the career of Mr. 
Morris. Mr. Mortis is a native of Swausea, South 
Wales, and was educated at Oheltenham, and 
Royal School of Mines, Loudon; was senior mode- 
rator and first gold Medallist, and took natural science 
honors at Trinity College, Dublin, receiving the degree 
of B. A., in 1876 and M. A;, in 1S80. He was appointed 
by tlio Eiu'l of Carnarvon, assistant to Dr. G. H. K, 
Thwaites f. r. s,, c. m. g. at the Royal Botanical Gar- 
dens, Coylou, in 1877. He was next placed on special 
duty, iu the CoflVe Leaf Disease Inquiry, in that 
island iu 1879 and publicly received the thanks of the 
“ Planters’ Assooiation of Oeylon " for services in con- 
nection therewith, os also special commendation from 
Sir Michael Uicks-Beach, and an honorarium equal 
to one year’s salary. Appointed Director of Fublic 
Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica in 1879. He was 
engaged on 11 special mission to Grenada and Tiinidad 
to report on the cultivation of cecno in 1882 and in 
the same year he visited and reported on the economio 
rosouroe.s of the coIo ny ef Biilisli llocduras. Ilewas 
appointed Chairman of the Jamaica Cemmittee of the 
Amsterdam Exhibition iu 1883 and in the same je ar 
he visitod and leported on the resources of the island of 
Helena at the request ol Lord Dei by, and was appointed 
a member of the Government Committee on Fibre 
Plants. In 1884 he prepared a repm-t on “ Planting En- 
tsipnse in the AVest Indies which was presented to 
both Houses of Parliam.-ut and iu the same year 1883 
he was Ohairniin of the lustitute of .Jimaica. Iu the 
following year he went as Oommissioncr for Jamaica 
to the World’s Exposition at New Orleans where ho 
was instrumeulal in getting the quarantine restriction 
removed a.giiinst Jamaica. He was appointed in 1886 
Assistant Director of the R 'yn.l jr.rdens at Kew ond 
left the island amid the regrets of all who knew him. 
He has since done good work at Kew and this year 
he has come out to the West Indies on tho mission 
referred to. Mr. Morris is author of “ Tho Colony 
of British Honduras” of “ Tho Agricultural Resources 
of the island of St. Helena,” “ Cacao, how to grow 
and how to cure it,.” “ The Mongoose on Sugar 
Estates in the West Indies, ” ‘‘ The history and cul- 
tivation ol Liberian Coffee ” and numerous other works 
treating on the distri'Jiiiion and cultivation of econo- 
mic plants iu the West India Islands. 
THE CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR. 
Uuo'e Sam has a sweet tooth. It has been suspected 
for some time ; now there are figures to show it. The 
latest statistics reveal the fact that the United States 
consiimcs more sugar than any other nation in tho 
world. Year by year the human family has been deve- 
loping its taste for sweet things, the consumption cf 
sugar tf various kinds having steadily grown faster than 
the race has multiplied. And year by year tho States 
and territories making up this hustling “Yankee 
nation,” have in their use of sugar been as steadily 
gaining on the average consumption per capita, until 
now our 62,500,000 are found to have beaten tho 
record, not only in the total amount consumed as a 
country, but probably in tho average per inhabitant as 
well. It seems tl at we used about 50 lb each, last 
year, or, to be more exact, near 3.100,000,000 lb in all. 
The rest of ihe world consumed nearly 10,000,000, lb. 
It will doubtless be news to a great many people in ti e 
United States to learn that of this vast quantity pf 
sugar consumed by tho different nations, over 60 per 
ceil is made from heels, It is only' a few years since 
beet sugar wa.s first breught into tho market, hut from 
the time of i's introduction the quantity of it used 
has steadily gained cn that of cane sugar. In 1884 
and 1885 tho quantity of each was about equal ; the 
sca' ouof 1883-6 placed beet sugar in tbo lead, and each 
year's work has givcu it a little a ivantage, until now 
the world coiibumes 7,700.000,000 lb of sugar made from 
b'. et, as against 5,011,000,000 lb of sugar made from 
cane. The relative quantity of the two kinds consumed 
ill tho United States at present is not ill the same pro- 
portion ; beet sugar being less than oae-flfth of the 
whole amciint. But there nre strong indicatious of a 
