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THt:  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
[Oct.  I,  1895. 
PINE  HILL  ESTATES  COMPANY. 
•The  following  is  from  the  Report  to  he  pre- 
sented on  the  ‘28tli  inst  ; — 
• Owing  to  an  abnormally  dry  season,  especially 
in  the  Hapiitale  District,  the  actual  crop  of  tea  from 
the  Company’s  estates  fell  short  of  the  estimate  by 
30,000  lb.  Coffee  was  95  bushels  in  excess  of  estimate. 
lb.  q;!  11). 
Pine  Hill  ami  Wavahena  'I 
•crop  was  costing  cts.  3'2“21  I netting 
Out-turn  from  pur-  | ^’Ib., 
chased  leaf  1-2,638  J cts.  4i)”2i 
Nahakettia  crop  was  100,590  „ ,,  32'32  ,,  46'23 
Average  yield  from  the  Company’s  acreage  of  Tea 
in  full  bearing  was  454  lb.  per  acre. 
The  profit  for  the  season  is  equivalent  to  llj  per 
cent,  on  the  paid-up  Capital.  Amount  available  for 
distribution  is  R16,793‘3(i,  which  your  Directors  would 
propose  to  deal  with  as  follows: — 
K.  ct. 
In  writing  of  balance  of  preliminary 
expenses  . . . . • • 596'49 
Payment  of  dividend  at  the  rate  of 
4 per  cent.  . . • • • • 13,916’00 
To  Reserve  Fund  ..  ••  2,000'00 
Leaving  a balance  to  be  carried  for- 
— - Ward  of..  ..  ••  ••  ‘280'87 
ll),793-3C 
Estimates  for  season  1895-96  are: — 255,000  lb.  Tea 
and  250  bushels  Coffee. 
^ 
JAVA  CINCHONA. 
Sept.  5. 
• The  August  shipments  of  cinchona  bark  from  Java 
according  to  telegraphic  information  from  that  island, 
amounted  to  697,UOOhalf-kilos.  The  total  shipments 
for  the  first  eight  months  of  the  year  were  6,013,700 
half-kilos.  The  following  ai'e  the  figures  for  the  last 
five  years  from  July  1 to  June  30: — 
Year 1894-5  1S93-4  1S92-3  18S1-2  1890-1 
Half-kilos.. 8, 705,057  7,428,336  7,955,090  7,786,867  6,876,816 
i^Chemitit  and  DriKjgist. 
^ 
PLANTING  AND  PRODUCE. 
The  Tea  Thade  of  Peksia. — A report  on  the  trade 
of  Bushire  makes  the  following  reference  to  Indian 
tea:  “There  has  been  a strong  demand  throughout 
the  past  year  for  Indian  and  Batavian  teas,  which 
seem  to  be  steadily  supplanting  the  China  teas  in 
favour  with  the  Persian  consumer.  Heavy  consign- 
ments, chiefly  from  India,  were  received  by  native 
merchants,  who  found  no  difficulty  in  disposing  of 
them  at  a good  profit.  It  was,  however,  at  the  port 
of  Bunder  Abbas  that  this  trade  received  its  most 
vigorous  impulse,  the  import  being  more  than 
double  that  of  the  previous  year.  This  largely 
increased  import  was  probably  to  a great  extent 
due  to  an  effort  to  take  advantage  of  a favourable 
opportunity  for  suppling  the  demands  of  regions  be- 
yond the  north-eastern  frontier  of  Persia.” 
Tea  Direct  to  Manchester. — As  announced  at 
the  last  half-yearly  meeting  of  the  Ship  Canal  Com- 
pany, Messrs.  Cayzer,  Irvine,  and  Co.  have  made 
arrangements  to  establish  a service  of  steamers  from 
Calcutta,  Madras  and  Colombo  to  Manchester,  the 
sailings  to  be  about  once  in  every  six  weeks. 
The  first  steamer,  the  “Clan  Mackay,”  2,602  tons 
gross  register,  left  Calcutta  for  Manchester  on 
August  6th,  and  is  now  en  route,  having  left  the 
Suez  Canal  on  August  28th.  She  will  call  at  Loudon, 
and,  after  discharging  what  cargo  sho  has  for  that 
port,  will  come  round  to  Manchester  with  a large 
consignment  of  tea,  being  expected  in  about  a fort- 
night. P’rom  Manchester  she  will  proceed  light  to 
Glasgow  and  Birkenhead,  to  load  outwards,  “ and 
will  thereby  .afford,  ’ says  the  Manchester  t/uardian, 
‘‘  local  shippers  a striking  object-lesson  in  the  in- 
fluence of  steamship  conferences.  Although  hundreds 
of  tons  of  merchandise  are  sent  away  daily  from 
Ma-ochester  to  Calcutta,  and  aRbough  steamefs 
from,  and  bound  for,  Calcutta  will  be  actua,lly 
discharging  in  the  Manchester  Docks,  owing 
to  ‘ Conference  arrangements,’  those  vessels  must 
steam  away  to  Glasgow  empty,  and  then  come 
back  to  Berkenhead  for  the  goods,  which  have  in 
the  meantime  been  sent  thither  by  rail  or  barge. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Calcutta  shippers  will 
not  be  content  with  such  an  anomalous  state  of 
things  when  it  lies  in  their  power,  by  combining 
to  induce  the  ring  to  recognise  Manchester  as  a 
loading  port,  as  is  now  done  by  the  Bombay  and 
Chiiia  Conferences.”  The  next  of  the  Clan  boats  to 
load  at  Calcutta  for  Manchester  will  be  the  “Cbui 
Mackinnon,”  2,208  tons  gross  register,  which  will 
leave  about  the  end  of  the  present  month,  calling 
at  Madras  and  Colombo. 
Fruit  Growing  in  the  Southern  States. — The 
particulars  given  of  the  peach  harvest  in  Georgia 
arc  interesting.  On  one  farm  alone  520  hands  were 
daily  engaged  during  the  season.  They  gathered 
and  p.acked  25,000  baskets  of  peaches  a day.  Eighty 
per  cent,  of  them  camped  out  while  so  engaged, 
and  they  included  all  kinds  of  people,  from  college 
boys  to  coloured  men  and  women.  They  began  their 
work  at  four  o’clock  in  the  morning,  and  continued 
it  as  long  as  they  could  see.  Not  much  trouble 
abort  “ hours,”  it  will  be  observed  here,  and  no 
strikes  in  the  labour  market.  The  fruit  was  plenti- 
ful, and  two-thirds  of  it  paid  a profit  of  from  25 
to  75  cents  per  crate.  The  industry  is  in  its  infancy, 
however.  The  negroes  wanted  their  pay  in  silver 
dollars.  They  were  cumbersome  to  everybody  else, 
but  the  darkeys  enjoy  the  weight  of  the  silver. — 
//.  # C.  J/ad. 
♦ 
COFFEE  PRODUCTION  IN  THE  MONTANA 
OF  PERU. 
The  acting  British  Consul  at  Callao  says  that  the 
region  which  Peru  offers  to  the  coffee  planter,  un- 
surpassed infertility,  and  almost  unlimited  in  extent, 
is  situated  on  the  eastern  slope  of  the  Andes,  at  a 
height  of  from  6,000  to  12.000  feet  above  sea  level, 
among  the  network  of  streams  and  rivulets  that  find 
their  way  into  the  great  affl'.ients  of  the  Amazon. 
It  is  the  Chaucliamayo  district — for  most  of  the 
coffee  that  passes  under  the  name  of  Vitoc  or  liua- 
nuco  comes  from  Chaucliamayo — which  is  the  real 
coffee-planting  district  of  Peru,  and  it  is  the  produc- 
tion of  this  region  that  has  elevated  Peru  to  the 
rank  of  a coff'ee  exporting  countrJ^  This  is  due  to 
the  completion  of  the  Central  or  Oroya  Railway,  by 
the  Peruvian  Corporation,  to  its  present  terminus  at 
Oroya,  giving  railway  carriage  over  the  crest  of  the 
Cordillera,  and  also  to  the  opening  up  of  the  Perenc 
and  adjacent  valleys  which  form  its  prolongation. 
Oroya  is  about  60  miles  from  Chaucliamayo  valley, 
and  there  is  a fair  road  all  the  way,  passing  through 
the  town  of  Tarma,  the  capital  of  a department 
with  about  7,000  inhabitants.  The  Chaucamayo 
Valley,  itself  about  10  miles  long,  is  now  in  t&e 
hands  of  private  owners,  but  the  rich  and  far  moi'e 
extensive  valleys  beyond  it  of  the  Perene,  Paucar- 
tambo,  and  Rio  Colorado,  have  now  been  linked  on 
to  La  Merced,  the  last  town  in  Chaucliamayo  by 
the  extension  of  the  Tarnia-Chauchaniayo  road  through 
a short  but  difficult  defile.  The  output  of  coffee  for 
the  whole  region  was  about  1,.5(X)  tons  in  1893,  but 
extensive  planting  has  lately  taken  place  and  pro- 
duction will  shortly,  it  is  said,  be  trebled. — The  Cos- 
mopolitan. 
[On  which  “Old  Colonist”  who  lias  been  to  Peru, 
writes: — “This  British  Consul,  writes  from  hearsay 
and  hearsay  in  Peru  is  valueless.  Only  an  ignorant 
idiot  would  talk  of  cofl'ee  up  to  12,000  feet  in  any 
part  of  this  earth.  There  is  no  coffee  at  Paoasmayo 
nor  within  100  miles  of  it.  One  dealer  1 met  there, 
liowcver,  boasted  of  having  l>,Ot)0  trees  in  the  interior. 
Not  loo  acres  at  the  famous  Iluanuco,  not  a forest 
tree  within  ,50  miles  of  it.  Perene  yes,  but  first  get  a 
settled  Government  and  then  talk  about  coffee  iuPeni, 
-El). 
