Sept, i, 1897.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
187 
COPY OF ANALYSIS OF SOIL I PEOPOSE TO PLANT. 
Silica and Si’.icatps insoluble in concen- 
trated acids .. .. .. 7.200 
Alumina, Oxide of Iron and a little 
Manganese . . • ■ • • 63.333 
Lime . . : • • • • -485 
Magnesia . . . . • • -300 
Potash . . . . . • • • -066 
Soda . . . . • • • • 
Sulphuric Acid .. •• •• •Oli’ 
Phosphoric Acid . . • • • • -032 
Water of Combination, Organic Matter, 
etc., etc. . . . . . • 28.355 
100.000 
Nitrogen . . . . _ . . • • -200 
Phosphoric Acid Soluble in 1 per cent 
Solution of Citric Acid . . . . ’0008 
Potash Soluble in ditto ditto . . ‘0028 
Notf, By Analyst. — T his soil is poor in lime and 
would be benefited by a good application of it. 
Note By W.W.W. — The soil is common pasture 
now but was in ruinate for more than 30 years 
till 1890. 
FEUIT TBEES AND COFFEE. 
The following further communication from Mr. 
Wynne, dated 17th May, has been received: — Since 
writing to you on the subject of Worn-out Coffee 
Lands I have had the following work done 
upon the experimental plot : — I have weeded 
one and a half acres of Common Land at the cost 
of £1 11s Od which was done by day labour. I lined 
and pegged out the land for planting, six feet by 
six feet, at a cost of 6s lOJd. Cutting the pegs for 
same (1,875) at IJd per 100 — 2s 4^d. Planting bananas 
12 X 12, say 406 bananas, 3s 6d. Cost of banana 
suckers at 4s per 100, 16s. Planting Seville Orange 
Trees at thirty feet apart, say twenty five trees, 2s. 
Carrying aud applying seventeen barrels of old stable 
manure to the orange holes, 2s l^d. Cost of orange 
trees, 3s. Cost of planting coffee 1,400 trees 12s. Cost 
of digging 1,875 holes 2 feet x 2 feet and 2 feet deep 
at 3s 4d per 100. — 72s. I have given the land a top 
dressing of sifted marl, actually .387 barrels at a cost 
of £3 7s lO^d. There was also 6s spent upon a fence, 
a small sum as I only had to fence one end of the 
plot the other three sides being already built 
It will be seen by the above statement that to 
hoe up the ground, peg, line out, and plant for the 
coffee, and digging the holes, (I had the coffee holes 
dug now, which I consider a great advantage, as 
the digging will serate the soil, and in the subse- 
quent weeding, between now and the time for plant- 
ing the coffee, the weeds can be hoed into them) 
has cost, with the dressing of marl, .£10 6s 9d. I 
have estimated that the cost of my nursery of coffee 
seeds will amount to 10s or 12s by the time the 
plants are ready to put out, it being my intention 
to plant the plants direct and not from suckers, 
whish is a great waste of time, say £11 for the acre 
and a half — or about £5 per acre if the cost of marl- 
ing is left out. It may be considered that the cost 
of digging the holes (3s 4d per 100) is excessive, but 
I am convinced, by my own experience, that if big 
holes are dug, the plants can be established more 
thoroughly, and this mode is cheapest in the end. 
I am perfectly acquainted with the usual mode of 
planting and know all the evils of it,— a thrust or 
two with a hoe, and the hole made deeper with a 
crow-bar, or, more often, a hard wood stake, the 
coffee suckers jammed in, a stamp with the foot — 
and the planting is done. I have heard of even more 
primitive planting, viz : a hole made with a cutlass 
and the suckers put in. It stands to reason that 
planted in either of these ways the plants have but 
a poor chance of thriving, and I have long since given 
up the “ Old Time” way, and now plant in hi(j holes — 
holes two feet square and quite two feet deep. I 
am quite aware that this adds to the initial co.st, 
but know that in the end it is a saving, and the 
field grows more regularly and the per oentage of 
supplies is very small. I have before hie as I write 
the cost of trimming, pegging and planting 60 acres 
which was just over £30. Also cost of 22 acres £11 
16s 6d : to these sums must be afided the cost of 
cofiee suckers, say Is 6d per 100. 
Walteii W. Wynne. 
— Jamaica A<j ricultiiral Journal for June. 
DRUG REPORT. 
(From the Chemist and Druggist.) 
London, July 1st. 
CiN CHONA.— The cinchona-bark auctions heh> in London 
on June 29th were of fairly considerable extent. The 
offering comprised of — 
' 
pkg's. 
pkgs. 
Ceylon Cinchona 
3 7 of which 
2-53 were sold 
E. Indian cinchona 
- 1845 „ 
1530 „ 
W. African cinchona 
118 „ 
118 „ 
Java cinchona 
76 „ 
76 
S. Ameiican calisaya 
135 „ 
““ >) 
,, cupea 
bark 8 ,, 
2519 
1977 
Throughout the auctions theie was a very steady de- 
mand, almost all the agents buying a fair proportion of 
bark, and only a few parcels were bought in on account 
of the hi.gh limits placed upon them, A considerable 
part of the Ceylon bark, and .several paveehs of the East 
Indian, were imported between three and six years ago, 
and part of the Calisaya was handed in 1893. Druggists’ 
barks were particularly well competed for. The average 
unit may be placed at ^d to Jd per lb., but for some 
lots a full penny-imit was re ched. The foil . wing figures 
represent the quantities of bark purchased by the principal 
buyers : - 
Lbs. 
Agents for the Mannheim and Amsterdam 
factory - - - 78,763 
Agents for the Eraiikfort and Stuttgart factory 66,220 
Do Imperial quinine-works - 62,786 
Do Brunswick qui ine-works - 60,380 
J o American ,, - oi,56i) 
Do Auerbach ,, - 19,968 
Messrs. Howards & Sous - - 42,771 
Various druggists - - - 29,125 
Agents for French factory - ■ 18,0J0 
Total quantity sold - 462,973 
Bought in or withdrawn 125,285 
Total quantity offered 588,258 
The following was tlie range of prices paid : — Ceylon 
cinchona : Succirubra, natural chips Ul lo l^d ; renewed 
ditto 25 -d to 2fd ; Officinalis, natural chips 2 I to 3gd ; 
renewed ditto 2|d to 3fd ; n.stural Ledger, stem chips, 
3jd per lb. 
CiTRONELLA OiL Is held foi’ Ls l|d to Is 2d } er lb., on 
the spot, in di ums or ti- s. For arrival 11 )d per lb. c. i. f., 
for drums ha.s been refused. 
Quinine.— N o busiiie.ss whatever has been reported this 
week. Practically all the German agents are now with- 
out quotations, though they still nominally quote a price, 
being unwilling to sell except!' g in small quantities to 
special buyers. 
Cinnamon Chips s-teady: ordinary coarse Ceylon 2^1; 
quillings 9)d per lb. 
Vanillin is said to have suddenly advanced, most of 
the mnnufactiirevs being teniuoravily unable to deliver. 
There has been a good inqu'ry for immediate shipment 
to America, one of the manufacturers, who was asking 
3s Id per oz. is said to have raised his quotation to 4s 
6d. Others still quote 3s 6d per oz., but cannot deliver 
anything immediately. 
- — 
Jubilee of the Ootacamund Botanic Gar- 
DEN.s. — The Uotacaninnd Botanic Garden.? cele- 
brate their jubilee bids year. They were opened 
during tiio Governorship of the Marquis of 
Tweeddale, in 1847, and now cover an area of about 
51 acres. The object with wliicli tlie gardens 
W'ere founded was to improve liorticiiltiire in llie 
Madras Presidency ; to introduce vegetable pro- 
ductions not iiidigenoiis to India, ami to turtlier 
the distribution of seeds and plants. The g-ir- 
dens are e.-'timated to cost more than 21,U0Dr. 
for the present year, and tlie expenditure is pro- 
gressively increasing. — Chemist and Druggist. 
July, 10. 
