Supplement io the ** Tropical AgviculinriM.' 
COFFEE AND PEPPER EXPORTS PROM SOUTHERN INDIA, 1896-97. 
Dear Sir, I have tho pleasure to famish you with my Annual Statement of Exports of Coffee and Pepper for the year ending 80th June 1897t the total figares of which approximately 
represent the crops of these products in India for the year in question. I further show the distribution of shipments to foreign ports. I have also added the figares relating to exports for the 
two previous years for tho purpose of comparison. 
CoFFKR.— Tho crop of 180ri-97 was remarkable as being the smallest exported from India for many years, the total quantity not exceeding cwt. 211,700, or some thirty-one per cent leas than the previons crop, 
which itself was not a good one. Of the quantity shipped this past year owt. 117,182 may be regarded as Plantation, and the balance cwt. 94,678 as Native Coffee, the value of the former being 
R7 908 370 and of tho latter R5, 680,102, calculated at EOS and R.)9 per owt. respectively, which I consider on average value for the year, allowing for the difference in prices obtained 
for’ the produce of the sevci’al distriots in which tho crops wore grown. The total value of past year’s crop may therefore be token at R19,548,478 as against that of last year, whirh I estimated 
at R22,401,857, but as okeady shown last year's crop compared unfavorably in quantity with that of the previous year and in addition the Coffee Market was weaker to the extent of an average 
of some nine rupees per cwt. The considerable reduction in tho export from the ports of Mangalore, Tellicherry, Calicut and Madras point to the fact that the crops in the districts 
of Mysore, Ooorg and the Nolliampathies, which find their outlet at the ports in question were exceptionally short ; whereas judging from the shipments from Beypote the crops fiom the Neilgherries 
and Bhevaroya greater than those of the previous year. 
pEPPEn. — The total exports of this spice amoanted to cwt. 222,383, or some forty-one per cent in excess of what was shipped last vear, tho value of which at an average of R17-8 per 
cwt. amounts lo E3, 891, 702. The shipments from Tellicherry were the largest. — I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, RAiPH TATHAM, Agent to Arbuthnot & Co. 
Te llicherry, 23rd Angnst 1897. ' 
MESSRS. ARBUTHNOT & COMPANY’S ANNUAL STATEMENT OP EXPORTS OF COFFEE AND PEPPER FROM SOUTHERN INDIA DURING THE SEASON ENDING 30TH JUNE 1807. 
