Nov. r, 1897.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 323 
be excluded from the United States. The deficiency 
can readily be met with supplies of the unquestion- 
ably pure teas from India and Ceylon. If an arbi- 
trary regulation which acts in a manner never con- 
templated or sanctioned by the law is applied to 
these teas, and the finest are kept out by classing 
them as “dust,” it will probably be a good ihing 
for those who are importing Japan and China teas. 
— Yours, etc., Kichabd Blechynden 
WYNAAD PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
AN EXPERT TO DEAL WITH COFFEE AS PROPOSED 
BY THE UNITED P.A., S. INDIA. 
From Proceedings of a General Meeting on Sept. 1. 
The last subject requiring notice is the decision 
arrived at on the employment of experts. We all 
felt that Mr. Newport’s scheme deserved support. 
The Government of Bladras will nay half the expense 
and theLorverPulneys will raise R4, 000 to 115,000 for 
this purpose. Green bug does not at present affect 
us, but as it has spread from Ceylon to the Lower 
Pulneys it may easily spread north as far as coffee 
extends. Personally we hope it requires a dry dis- 
trict to thrive in and our heavy monsoon will kill 
it, but that is no reason the U.P.A.S.I. should not 
afford help to districts that need it. 
There was considerable dissgreement as to the 
practical benefit likely to accrue irom employing an 
expert for improving cultivation, and the subject 
was thoroughly thrashed out in special meetings of 
those most interested. Eventually it was agreed to 
meet the views of both sides by trying to secure the 
services of Mr. Cameron to improve the strain of 
coffee, and also to ascertain if sufficient support could 
be obtained from Associations and Governments in- 
terested to obtain with the help of the U.P.A. the 
services of an Agricultural Chemist. 
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MACHINE-MADE TEA IN AMERICA. 
One cannot withhold admiration of the pluck, enter- 
prise and persistency that characterize the work of 
the agents of the India and Ceylon tea syndicate. 
They came into the markets of America to stay. 
Encountering a prejudice, as unreasonable as inex- 
cusable, they have, by patient endeavor, made rapid 
strides in its overthrow, and succeeded in making it 
obligatory upon every up-to-date distributor of tea 
to place Ceylon and India tea in stock. By judi- 
cious and well directed advertising they have created 
demand, and with all classes of the people. Think 
of the enterprise shown in securing the cover page 
of the Ladies' Home Journal, which reaches 700,000 
American homes, and to the unique and convincing 
ads. in other of the foremost journals and magazines 
of country, which enterprise is working directly for the 
benefit of the retail dealer. These teas not only 
have merit, but are much more economical than 
China or Japan growths. It pays the dealer to 
handle machine-made tea, because the demand is 
created by just such striking and suggestive and an- 
nouncements as that on page 9 of this issue. — 
American Grocer, Sept. 1. 
COFFEE CROPS-1897-98. 
It is estimated by W. H. Crossman & Brother 
that the coffee crops of the world in 1897-98 will be 
about the same as during the 1896-97 crop — that is, 
a total of 14,000,000 bags, divided by about 8,500,000 
for Kio and Santos and 6,500,000 for all other count- 
ries, with the possibility that one may be more and 
the other less, but the total not far from the figure 
mentioned. If low prices stimulate consumption this 
year as much as they appear to have done in 1896-97 
it will tend to check a decline to the low prices of 
1882, when a record of 5i cents was made for 
ordinary, and No. 3 (or fair Rio) sold at 7i cents. 
If this year’s total supply is as large as estimated 
it may be that the market will drop to prices made 
fifteen years ago . — American Grocer, Sept, 1. 
JAVA CINCHONA SHIPMENTS. 
The exports of cinchona-bark' from J.iva during the 
month of August have been declarjd at 697,000 
Amsterdam pounds. The following figures show 
the totals for the past five years up to the end of 
August : — 
1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 
Amst. Amst. Amst. Amst. Amst. 
Month lb, lb. lb. lb. lb. 
of Aug. 636,000 853,000 697,000 979,000 697,000 
January 
to Aug. 5,376,000 5,654,000 6,013,000 6,029,000 5,005,000 
These figure have created a favourable impression at 
Amsterdam, and raised expectations of a better unit 
tor the coming auction, at which a small quantity 
only will be offered. It is rumoured that the German 
combination of manufacturers contemplate an advance 
in the price of quinine. The Java works are iooking 
for higher prices, but the figures they quote contradict 
the conclusions they arrive at in their reports, which 
state that they are enlarging their capacity to 100 kilos 
per day . — Chemist and Druggist. 
PLANTING IN JAVA, STRAITS SETTLE- 
MENTS AND B.N. BORNEO: 
THE VISIT OF AN EXPERIENCED 
CEYLON PLANTER, 
At our request, Mr. A. E. Wright, the well- 
known Ceylonproprietor and In.spector of Estate.s, 
has written the following interesting account of 
his recent trip to the “Far East” 
I left Ceylon on the 5th July 1897, arrived at 
Singapore on 10th July, left there for Batavia 
on 13th July, where we arrived on the 15th 
July, and on 16th went on to Buitenzorg, Mr. 
ami Mrs. Dunsniure and Mr. Welldon accom- 
panied me so far and they went back by steamer, 
via Batavia, Samarang, &c., while I went up to 
THE PREANGER 
to visit my interest, there I found everything 
very floiirishing- 
Mr. Dunsmure, Mr. Welldon, Mr. Bingley and 
self, visited a Mr. Motman’s 
LIBERIAN COFFEE ESTATE 
together, the day we were at Buitenzoig, and 
it certainly W'as a sight worth seeing, the soil, 
and growth of trees, and crop was magnificent, 
and his factory arrangements very complete, and 
as for his bungalow it was good enough for 
a Governor-General ! You can fancy my surprise 
at finding a telephone wire connecting Tji Wangie 
estate with Tji Rengas Station (the rail and 
telegraph station) a (listanee of ten miles, for 
the cost of which we pay 20s a month to the 
Telephone Company, and they pay cost of plant, 
erection and for keeping it in repair. In this 
particular Java is far ahead of Ceylon. Some 
estates have telephone communication with each 
other thirty to forty miles apart. 
I left Java for Singapore on the 23rd July, 
arriving there on the 25th and finding that there 
was no steamer for British North Borneo until 
the 3rd prox. and on Sir Charles Mitchell’s re- 
commendation I took a run up to the Native 
States, tiie result of which, was that I applied 
for a block of 6t0 acres at 
KUALA SELANGOR, 
which lias been granted to me on very favourable 
terms, for coconuts, &c. I was not very favour- 
ably impressed with the land between Klang 
and Kuala Lumpur, through which the laihvay 
runs, but I was told that this was not a fair 
sample of the land at all, but had not time to 
