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THE 
WHAT  IS 
“TROPICAL 
THOUGHT  OF 
AGRICULTURIST.” 
A gentleman  resident  in  the  Central  Province,  who  has  as  good  opportunities  of  knowing  what  is 
of  ^benefit  to  Planters  as  anyone  we  know,  sent  us  the  following  explicit  testimony  to  the  value  of  the 
“Since  its  commencement,  I have  regularly  seen  and  perused  the  Tropical  Apricullurist.  There  can  be 
but  one  opinion  that  its  scope  and  object  are  highly  important,  and  that  it  supplies  a distinct  desideratum,  which 
it  is  to  the  interest  of  every  estate  proprietor  to  have  available  in  the  bungalow  for  the  use  of  his  locum  tenens, 
or  superintendent.  As  a magazine  it  provides  varied  and  instructive  fresh  literature  at  intervals ; deprived, 
as  most  in  Ceylon  are,  of  easy  access  to  libraries ; and  as  years  go  by  it  will  growiugly  become  ‘ The  Ceylon 
Encyclopoedia  ’ with  reference  to  agricultural  operations.  Viewing  estate  property  as  practically  a permanent 
investment  to  any  proprietor,  the  trifiing  charge  of  1112  per  annum — a rupee  a month — is  certainly  of  no  account, 
provided  the  separate  numbers  are  kept,  and  bound  together  yearly  as  a book  of  reference,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
manager  and  his  successors.  In  that  light,  as  the  property  of  an  estate  to  be  handed  over  j ust  as  much  as  its  office 
furniture,  few  proprietors  would  probably  refuse  to  authorise  its  being  taken  and  filed  regularly  (if  the  periodical 
was  brought  under  their  notice  ),  more  especially  as  on  looking  over  the  most  recent  volume  one  cannot  fail  to  fee- 
how  much  valuable  information  on  ‘Tea’  has  been  collated.  In  the  belief  that  ‘Tea’  has  restored  prosperity  to 
Ceylon,  and  that  plantation  property  is  a good  investment  for  capitalists,  such  should  not  omit  the  office  and 
connects  equipment  so  a,dvisable  on  all  ‘pucka’  estates,  a part  of  which  should  be  the  Tropical  Ai/riculfnrial. 
I find  I have  gone  on  writing,  but,  as  I am  getting  the  numbers  for  the  past  year  ready  to  be  bound,  the  volume 
IS  before  me. 
Mr.  W.  T.  Thistleton  Dyer,  F.n.s.,  c.m.o.,  of  Kew  Gardens: — “Sir  Joseph  Hooker  and  myself 
always  look  out  tor  the  successive  numbers  of  the  7\A.  with  engerness,  and  I keep  a file  in  my  office 
for  referenee.  it  is  impossible  to  speak  too  highly  of  the  utility  of  such  a publication  and  of  the  way 
It  is  managed.  j i j 
Calcutta  Government  Museum: — “I  know  your  'Tropical  Ar/ricullurist  well,  having 
carefully  secured  every  number  since  the  beginning.  You  have  succeeded  in  making  it  a wonderfully 
useful  magazine  of  information  for  planters.’’  n j 
Surgeon-Major  Bidio,  F.L.s.  of  the  Government  Central  Museum,  Madras  I find  the  Tropical 
kn^if  much  p^^  publication.  It  finds  a place  on  the  table  of  our  Tublic  Library, 
Ceylon  Estaie  Owneiis.— A planting  correspondent  wrote  tome  time 
tea  estate  with  the  T.A.  The  information  in  it  with  regard  to 
^ t ioa  not  Ipfivc  it  to  L**"  f ‘uvaluable : it  would  pay  its  value  over  and  over  again.  Owners  of 
estates  should  not  leave  it  to  hard-up  superintendents  to  take  it  in.” 
nrominm  a "^f p^^vpifrs  xentiiro  to  sav  the  volumes  of  the  Tropical  At/riculluri.il  will  be  at 
Kirs  vvil  nrorablv  if  tlov^  value  as  time  rolls,  on,  and 
the  benefit  of  iiL.g  the  infoLation  ffiXEne^antime  r ‘’'^ndsome  profit,  besides  having  had 
your  woSmful''p^bHclumv)^  notS  co.r  '''"'Yt  ‘ s;ffis®''ibing  to 
nil  fhnf  ic  i n fnvnwf I 1 iiotnin*?  compaiea  to  tho  convonicnco  of  having  in  a 
H'hon.S‘ .*",1“ price  ““r 
,„d  . hundred  olhef  IhiuK.  nccc.r,-'  tor  fh.m  l„  .“''j:;,, r“,‘i  'r'';’'’,’.'* 
file  of  useful  mformatiou  daily  arising  and  permanently  presened.”  ' ^ ‘ ^°“venient 
