May I, 1891.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST, 
807 
Oxide of Copper ... '12 
Magnesia ... '45 
Potash ... ’78 
Soda ... -69 
fNitric Acid ... 3'50 
Silica ... 12-90 
100 00 
•Containing Nitrogen 95 ’18 
t Do do 89 
Total nitrogen 1-84 Ammonia 2 23 
Crops. 
Statement of Produce of Liberian Coffee Estates 
in the Native States. [This was given in Observer of 
March 13.— Ed. T. A.] 
Memorandum of.number of boxes of cherry gathered 
on the Estates, showing when the crop seasons ate. 
Linsum Estate. 
1884. 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
1888. 
1889. 
1890. 
January 
— 
— 
452 
397 
501 
693 
1,328 
February 
156 
97 
653 
477 
910 
390 
399 
March 
— 
.305 

153 
493 
721 
789 
April 
— 
69 
143 
27 
136 
299 
192 
May 
128 
193 
8 
— 
2-24 
— 
— 
June 
159 
— 
115 
385 
439 
854 
756 
July 
93 
— 
577 
528 
505 
1,188 
663 
August 
137 
216 
225 
381 
408 
3t6 
187 
September 
— 
577 

— 
— 
33 
32 
October 
4L5 

138 
— 
— 
30 
November 
— 
140 
83 
6 
143 
GO 
58 
December 
— 
485 
329 
293 
557 
367 
392 
Total 
.678 2, .502 
2,495 
2,785 
4,336 
4,925 
4,756 
S’lian E.statb. 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
1888. 
1889. 
1690. 
January 
« • 
— . 
680 
230 
534 
412 
483 
February 
• • 
— 
182 
425 
446 
739 
887 
March 
... 
13 
46 
44 
303 
175 
86 
April 
23 
— 
— , 
1,58 
103 
43 
May 
.*» 
174 
25 
10 
252 
215 
— 
Juno 
— 
328 
175 
576 
323 
510 
July 
• •• 
— 
394 
244 
264 
434 
513 
August 
... 
— 
202 
92 
267 
318 
40 
September 
... 
— 
— 
64 
149 
27 
27 
October 
259 

41 



November 
10 
54 
95 
55 
110 
51 
December 
... 
146 
364 
286 
338 
316 
529 
Total 
625 
2,275 
1,656 
3,342 
3,172 
3,169 
Weeds Eile Estate. 
January 
1886 
1887 
1888. 
1889. 
1890. 
248 
482 
553 
643 
435 
February 
210 
498 
704 
527 
507 
March 
76 
— 
72 

260 
April 
21 
163 
234 


May 
26 
61 



June 
603 
284 
624 
1,214 
290 
July 
58 
— 
487 
870 
435 
August 
131 
260 


September 
— 
— 



Octooer 
— 
31 
6 
_ 
21 
November 
205 
112 
607 
2 
56 
December 
512 
820 
195 
1,165 
369 
— 
— 

— 

Total 
2,192 
Batu C’aves 
2,712 3,882 
Esta'ik. 
1888 
4,421 
1889 
2,374 
1890 
January 
— 

149 
February 
— 
90 
265 
March 

164 
95 
April 
50 

May 
— 


June 
• •• 
84 
110 
125 
July 
... 
— 
102 
August 
30 
107 
Sepi ember 
80 
— 
Oct' ber 
— 

Novembar 
— 
__ 
December 
260 
18 
Total 
591 
489 
CEYLON TEA IN EUSSIA. 
St. Petersburg, 4, 16th March. 
Dear Sib,— By today’s post I have sent you two 
circulars of the “ United Kjachta Tea Co.,” which 
have opened a large business in St. Petersburg. 
The pictures on the back represent the primitive 
methods of transporting the tea from China, through 
Mongolia, Kjachta and Siberia before it reaches 
Eussia. The central picture represents the shop 
belonging to the Co. on the Nevsky Prospect.* 
It was my intention, had I remained in the trade, 
to have started a similar establishment in Peters- 
burg or Moscow and sell Ceylon tea in its pure 
state or mixed with Chinese in order to suit the 
taste of the public. This would have been the 
first step before launching out in a stil larger 
business. 
The Director of this tea business informs me 
that he would like to receive samples of the finest 
Ceylon teas direct from Ceylon, as he finds the 
Ceylon tea very suitable for mixing with the 
Chinese which is wanting in flavour. In case any 
of your planters wish to start a business in Peters- 
burg he would be quite willing to sell the Ceylon 
tea in its pure or mixed state. I think this would 
be a grand chance for the tea planters of Ceylon, 
and as they are not strong enough in this country 
to break down the opposition of the wealthy tea 
merchants, they could not do better than work 
together with them.— I remain, yours very truly, 
WM. BARNES STEVENI. 
P. S . — A tea merchant from Irkutsk has also 
asked for samples of Ceylon tea. 
SALT IN AGMCULTUilE. 
March 28. 
Dear Sir, — I feel very gratified at the support my 
appeal has received from the Press. I shall in this 
communioation offer a few remarks on the editorial 
comments on my letters, chiefly to keep the subject 
before the eyes of the public and the G-overnment, so 
that the latter might he induced to take action in the 
matter. 
It has been urged that no new arguments in favour 
of the manurial value of salt, or of the diflBculty of ren« 
dering it unfit for food are to be found in my letters. 
I expressly disclaimed any pretensions to originality. 
What can I, a layman, say that is new of a substance 
whoso manorial value has been acknowledged almost 
from the beginning of time, and of whose virtnea 
the votaries ot Agricultural Science have since sung H 
What wo are immoliatcly concerned about is, nor 
so much its value as a manure, as its indespens- 
ability in coconut cultivation laud what is well 
known IS reiicrnted, that Science has proved 
the possibility of purilying salt that has be. n 
mixed with offensive substances. The practical 
man is concerned with enquiring whether the 
average Native, Sinhalese and Tamil, is so conversant 
with the teachings of Science as to experiment with 
contaminated salt, and whether there is the slightest 
probability of his using such salt as food, even were 
ho able to jiurify it. Those who profess to answer 
these questions in the affirmative will proclaim their 
ignorance of the habits and doep-rooted prejudices of 
* Tho'e circulars esu bo seen at oqr Office.— Boi T$Jf 
