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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
IJan, I, 1898 . 
the troughs disclosed the presence of 3 or 4 leeches 
and if they were really the cause of the loss another 
terror is added to the troubles of tropical trout breed- 
ing. 
FINANCE. 
The financial condition of the Club is quite satis- 
factory. After paying for the unlucky ova and meet- 
ing two abnormal and heavy charges, the rebuilding 
of the hatchery and the making of the stewpond 
at Queen’s Cottage, the balance to our credit today 
is Rl,230'91. Our income has steadily increased both 
in the way of subscriptions and licenses in spite of the 
manifold claims upon the purse during jubilee year: 
and, as far as one can judge, the average fisher- 
man finds quite enough sport, to justify his expendi- 
ture. 
Mr. Burrows’ Report was received with applause, 
INTERESTING REGISTER OF TROUT CAUGHT. 
The following postscript was added by Mr. Bur- 
rows to it : — “ 'The two following records of a year’s 
fishing in the Nuwara Eliya and Horton Plains’ 
streams have been kindly supplied by two members, 
and are published here, as eiving a fair average of 
possibilities.” Mr. Burrows added this postscript in 
consideration of the following letter addressed to him 
and a promise by Mr. John Fraser, of Abbotsford, to 
give a register of trout caught by him; — 
Calsay, Nanu-oya, November 24th, 1897. 
S. M. Burrows, Esq. 
Dear Sir, — Herewith please find a register of trout, 
caught by me in season 1897, which includes fish 
caught at Nuwara Eliya, Hortons, and Ambewella. 
1 Trout weighing lb. 4 
1 do lb. li 
3 do lb. 1§ 
4 do lb. IJ 
11 do lb. 1 
29 do from 8 oz. tol5 oz. 
49 do equalled 46 lb. 9 oz. 
29 trout returned, under 11 inches. 
Last year, I was requested to send in an account 
of fish caught, and do so again, as I think it is in- 
teresting to know the number of fish caught in each 
season. Q. C. Ross Clarke. 
The following Committee was appointed : — 
General Committee— newly appointed -Messrs, 
North C. Davidson, G. C. Ross Clarke, F. L. 
Clements ; old members re elected — Messrs. C. H. 
Bagot, A. F. Broun, H. G. Cuff, J. E. A. Dick- 
Lauder, T. Farr, E. Jeffries, E. M. Leefe, H. V. 
Masefield, J. M. Purdon, J. H. Starey, A. R. 
Wilson-Wood, C. P. Hayes, C. Bayley, J. Fraser, 
Capt. R. Ward Jackson, and G. M. Fowler. 
Managing Committee Messrs. T. Farr, H. V. 
Masefield, Wilson-Wood, and C. H. Bagot, with 
Messrs. S. M. Burrows and J. Wickwar as 
Managing Secretaries. 
. THE AMSTERDAM CINCHONA-AUCTIONS, 
The cinchona-auctions to he held at Amster- 
dam, on December 9, will consist of 8,216 bales 
and 626 cases Java bark. The stock in first hand, 
including the above quantity now consists of 
1,715 packages Government and 8,022 private 
hark. These auctions will be the largest ever 
held anywhere, and it will le interesting to see 
if the market can stand this severe test of its 
strength . ^ — Chemist and Druggist. 
the JAVA QUININE WORKS. 
The Java.quinine-factory atBandong, has now been 
a work for several months, but, like moat new un- 
dertakiEgJ, it has had a good many difficulties to over- 
come The first of these was, that extensive repairs 
were found to he requned in the machinery (which 
had been purchased in Germany) almost as soon it 
was put up. When that was done it was found that 
the producing-capacily of the] work was inadequate to 
the probable demand upon the plant, and th# factory 
had to be extended. The Dutch-Indian Government 
in order to encourage the Java works, ordered 500 
kilos, sulphate of quinine to be delivered on July 1, 
but this order could not be executed in time, and had 
to be transmitted to Europe by the authorities — a fact 
which did not increase the prestige of the woiks. Now, 
however, the factory appears to have passed through 
its teething period, and is already trying to extend 
its operations beyond the Dutch East Indies. Thirty 
kilos, of the Bandong quinine have been sent for 
sale to Singapore, where it was said (on whose 
authority we do not know) to be ‘‘better than Howards.” 
Messrs. McNeill & Cc., tamarang, Java, one of the 
firms who act as selling-agents for the Bandong works, 
report that the samples of the quinine which they 
have sent to their clients have everywhere given great 
satisfaction, and Messrs. Maclaine, Watson & Co., 
the selling-agents at Batavia, say ihat in the first 
week of October they received the following cable- 
gram from London: — ‘‘Ship any quantity you can; 
we can sell large quantities up to Is per oz.” (At that 
time the London quotation of second-hand German 
quinine was Is Id to Is 2d per oz.) 
But the Java quinine works anticipate violent oppo- 
sition from the European makers. They say that 
Herr Buchler, the director of the Brunswick factory, 
who visited Bandong just before the establishment 
of the works, publicly declared that if the factory 
were really started, the European manufacturers 
would kill it, even if they had to reduce tie price 
of quinine to fid. And it is held in many quarters 
in Java, that the great advance in cinchona bark 
which we are now witnessing is not due to the 
reduction of the bark-output, but to the deliberate 
policy of the great European manufacturers, who want 
to make the prices for cinchona bark in Europe so 
remunerative, that the Java planters will have 1 o 
inducement to send their baik to the Bandong factory , 
to he converted into quinine. It is pointed out that 
two days before the Amsterdam sale of September 30, 
at which the unit advanced to 6‘27c., a cablegram had 
been sent to Holland, announcing that the enlarge- 
ment of the Bandong factory had been completed, 
and that the works were now able to turn out 100 kilos, 
of sulphate of quinine a &&y. — Chemist and Druggist. 
“FINE PLUCKING.” 
A Planter writes ; — “ You remember the denial 
of the charge of fine plucking which a corre- 
spondent of yours reported. Well ! I hear that so 
line .are they plucking now that they give a name 
for 5lb ! How that will pay remains to be seen.” 
ORANGE GROWING NORTH OF KANDY,' 
A planting friend is good enough to write: — 
‘‘ 1 am sending into Kandy a box of 
Mandarin Oranges which kindly accept ; — when 
grumbling some time ago about not being able to 
find a market, you expressed a wish to ‘ send some 
along ’ so here they are. We can grow this kind 
as the leaf fungus which is so fatal toihe other kinds 
does not affect these so badly. Coffee leaf disease is a 
trifle compared with the white fungus attacking the 
orange, as the flush of young orange leaves is 
covered with the fungus the instant they appear, 
never giving the tree a chance to put on fresh 
leaves and it dies gradually. I have had hundreds of 
the large green orange trees killed by it and a good 
many Mandarin from this, and some other cause, a 
borer I think— were it not fer this I could have 
flooded the market with oranges. I sent some of the 
fungus to Dr. Thwaites, years ago. His reply wss 
collect and burn — it is very deadly, I quite agree with 
the verdict. I know nothing so ttrribly fatal to 
cultivation.’” 
We have to thank our friend for a treat, shared 
with several invalids. The oranges arrived fully 
ripe but all in good condition. As to the fungus, 
our correspondent should send specimens to Mr. 
Willis or Mr. E. E. Green. The lady-bird beetles 
cleared the orange trees in Hawaii and California 
of bug. 
