Feb.  I.  1897.]  THE  I'ROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
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THE  EXPORT  OF  CHINA  AND  JAPAN. 
TEA. 
From  the  Honijkunfi  Weekly  Press  of  31st  Dec. 
1896  Nve  take  tlie  following  : — 
EXPOUT  OK  TEA  FROM  CHINA  TO  GREAT  BRITAIN. 
2896  97. 
1895-96. 
lb. 
lb. 
Canton  and  Macao  . . 6,058,521 
7,21.3,224 
Shanghai  and 
Hankow..  17,898,886 
20,724,674 
Foochow 
. . 12,262,311 
13,814,491 
36,219,718 
41,752,389 
EXPORTS  OF 
TEA  FROM  CHINA  TO  UNITED  STATES 
AND  CANADA. 
1896-97. 
1895  96. 
lb. 
lb. 
Shanghai 
19,332,042 
27,879,154 
Amoy 
...  16,446,017 
11,610,453 
Foochow 
9,590,452 
9,836,864 
45,368,511 
49,326,471 
EXPORT 
OF  TEA  FROM  CHINA  TO  ODESSA. 
1896-97. 
1895-96. 
lb. 
lb. 
Shanghai  and  Hankow  . . 22,949,123 
27,240,863 
EXPORT  OF 
TEA  FROM  JAPAN  TO  UNITED  STATES 
AND  CANADA. 
1896-97. 
1895-96. 
lb. 
lb. 
Yokohama 
. . 25,949,716 
28,956,080 
Kobe 
. . 13,519,653 
18,012,100 
39,469,369  46,968,180 
THE  KANDYAN  HILLS  CO.,  LTD. 
A General  Meeting  of  the  Shareholders  of 
the  Kandyan  Hills  Company,  Limited  was 
held  at  the  Registered  Office  of  the  Company, 
(Messrs.  Carson  and  Co.’s)  No.  21,  Baillie  Street, 
this  afternoon. 
Mr.  F.  M.aciiuhe  presided  and  present  were 
Messrs  A.  Forsyth,  E.  R.  Waldock,  A.  Anan- 
dappa,  G.  J.|  Jamieson  (by  his  Attorney  Mr. 
F.  Macindoe)  and  Messrs,  Carson  and  Co.  (re- 
presented by  Mr,  F.  Macindee).  On  the  motion 
of  Mp.  Forsyth  seconded  by  Mu.  Ananuappa 
i\\e  provisional  Directors: — Messrs.  J.  N.  Campbell, 
K.  Macindoe,  and  E.  R.  Waldock,  retiring  in 
terms  of  the  Articles  of  Association,  were  reelected. 
Following  the  Ordinary  General  Meeting  an 
extraordinary  General  Meeting  was  held— pre- 
sent as  before.  The  following  resolution  on  the 
motion  of  Mr.  Forsyth  seconded  by  Mr. 
Anandappa  was  passed. 
That  the  Directors  be  and  they  are  here'  y autho- 
rised to  borrow  a sum  not  exceeding  five  thousand 
pounds  (£5,000)  Sterling  carrying  interest  at  the 
rate  of  five  per  centum  per  annum  upon  such  terms 
and  conditions  as  to  re-payment  and  otherwise  as 
to  the  Directors  shall  seem  proper  and  to  mort- 
gage the  Pansalatenne  Estate  and  premises  as 
security  for  the  sum  to  be  so  borrowed  and  the 
interest  thereon. 
It  was  explained  by  the  Chairman  that  the 
money  was  to  be  raised  for  the  pni  [>ose  of  paying 
off  an  existing  mortgage  of  £4500  on  Pansalatenne 
estate  bearing  interest  at  7 per  cent  in  favour 
ol  Messrs.  (4.  H.  Trail,  R.^  A.  Ro.sampiet  and 
J.  D.  Balfour,  and  to  replace  it  with  a mortgage 
bearitig  interest  at  5 per  cent  in  favour  of  the 
Standard  Life  Office  up  to  £5,000.  The  Stand- 
ard IJfe  Office  had  consented  to  lend  £4,500, 
but  the  Directors  hoped  to  arrange  a loan  of 
£),000.  the  additional  £500  being  reijuired  to  |iay 
for  extensions. 
This  was  all  the  business, 
KING  COFFEE. 
A NEW  COFFEE  LEAF  DISEASE  DEVELOPED  IN 
8OCONU8C0  CHIAPAS,  MEXICO. 
Coffee  is  king,  because  there  is  no  shrub  in  the  world 
so  extensively  cultivated  as  the  coffee  tree.  America 
and  Mexico,  which  latter  countries  have  developed 
to  large  prf  portions  during  the  last  decade  of  years 
and  are  taking  their  places  among  the  higher  rank  of 
large  coffee  producing  countries  of  the  world.  I have 
■ lid  that  Ceylon  was  the  third  biggest  producing 
country  in  the  world.  But  a disease  sprang  into  ex- 
istence in  that  same  year  and  checked  its  further 
progress.  The  effect  of  this  coffee  “ small  pox  ’ in 
the  industry  was  terrible.  Devastation,  disaster,  ruin 
are  words  that  ill  describe  the  awful  working  of 
the  plague. 
From  1,000,000,  in  1869,  the  export  gradually  de- 
clined until  the  output  reached  the  insignificant 
figure  of  50,000  quintals,  which  is  the  very  la  e-t 
figures  quoted  from  the  London  press.  This  state- 
ment leaves  nothing  to  be  added.  Had  the  cultiva- 
tion been  completely  obliterated,  the  final  end  could 
not  have  been  much  worse. 
There  is  another  disease  Steilbum-Flavidum.  It 
might  be  truly  called  a twin  sister  to  Hemileia 
Vastatrix.  It  is  so  very  alike  in  appearance  and  the 
effect  which  it  produces  on  the  coffee  tree,  that  I 
have  mistaken  it  for  that  disease,  which  the  letter 
copied  below  clearly  shows.  I observed  a great  change 
in  the  luxuriant  growth  of  coffee  in  Soconusc'o 
Chiapas,  Mexico,  from  1889,  and  its  late  appearance 
during  the  few  years  last  past.  I examined  it  closely 
and  carefully,  especially  in  the  section  of  the  district 
called  Chicharras,  and  thought  I had  unearthed  the 
terrible  demon  Hemileia  Vastatrix;  I accordingly 
collected  some  leaves,  gathered  from  the  San  Juan 
coffee  estate;  prepared  them  carefully,  and  sent  them 
to  the  director  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  of 
Sciences,  Washington,  for  examination  and  report 
when  completed. 
The  following  is  a copy  of  his  reply  : — 
Smithsonian  Institute, 
United  States  National  Museum 
Washington,  May  22nd,  1894.  ’ 
Mr.  W.  J.  Forsyth,  Chiapas,  Mexico  : 
Dear  Sir,— The  coffee  tree  leaves  recently  trans- 
mitted by  you  for  examination,  have  been  referred 
to  the  curator  of  botany  in  the  National  Museum. 
He  has  submitted  them  to  Mr.  Ellis,  of  Newfield 
New  Jersey,  who  states  that  the  disease,  which  has 
affected  the  trees  is  not  caused  by  the  fungus  Hemi- 
leia Vastatrix,  but  by  the  growth  to  which  the  name 
of  Steilbum  Flavidum  (Cooke)  has  been  given.  This 
I am  told,  is  quite  widespread.  Mr.  Ellis  has,  in  his 
collectiun,  specimens  of  the  same  fungoid  growth 
from  Costa  Rica,  Jamaica  and  Venezuela.  In  as  much 
as  no  experiments  have  been  made  in  this  direction 
no  remedies  can  be  suggested.— Yours  faithfully,  ' 
G.  Brown  Goode,  Assistant  Secretary 
(2683)  True  copy  W.J.F, 
This  disease  is  entirejy  and  altogether  confined  to 
the  district  I have  ment  oned.  In  no  other  place  in 
the  coffee  zone  of  Mexico  have  I observed  it.  I have 
travelled  over  a wide  field  of  the  belt,  particularly 
in  the  State  of  Oaxaca,  and  looked  carefully  every- 
where for  indications  of  the  pest,  but  failed  to  see 
the  slightest  indications.  It  therefore  behoves  the 
governments  of  those  States,  which  are  exempt  from 
the  visitation  of  either  of  these  coffee  plagues  to 
take  every  preventive  measure  possible,  to  prohibit 
the  bringing  into  the  disaffected  States,  live  plants 
from  the  affected  district  of  Chicharras,  Soconusco 
Chiapas.  This  can  be  easily  done,  as  they  are  en- 
tirely isolated,  with  little  or  no  traffic  between  the 
States. 
Of  late  there  has  been  a considerable  exodus  of 
capital  from  the  United  States  to  different  parts  of 
Mexico.  It  )s  therefore  with  the  kindliest  feelines 
that  I warn  them  to  be  guarded  of  an  enemy  subtle 
to  them,  invisible,  unknown,  and  which  is  only  re- 
cognized by  the  scientific  e.xperts  in  the  calling 
Established  estates  are  at  all  times  the  most  engae! 
ing  objects  for  investments  of  capital.  There  are 
