538 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[Feb. I, ligS. 
THE HONORARY SECRETARY IN ACCOUNT WITH 
THE GAME PROTECTION SOCIETY. 
R. 
c. 
January 10th, 1896. — To balance per 
B. G. Reeves, Esq. 
409 
11 
February 24tb, 1897. — To subscrip- 
tioDs received iu 1896 . . 
500 
2.5 
Do. do in 1897.. 
15 
31 
December 30th, 1897. — To subscrip- 
tions received in 1897 . . 
645 
00 
R 1,569 
67 
R. 
c. 
February, 1897. — To cheque books. 
Bank charges, &c. 
17 
75 
By Stationery 
34 
95 
,, Printing ordinances. . 
8 
91 
,, Advertisements of meetings, &c. 
21 
25 
,, Postages 
20 
00 
,, Cheque for demand draft for 
£20,000 at 1/3| in favour of J. 
Bailey & Go., for partridges . . 
313 
47 
,, Bank charges, 1897 . . 
8 
50 
,, Advertisements of meetings, &c. 
39 
55 
,, Balance 
1,105 
29 
Rl,569 
67 
E. & O. E. 
Thos. Faeii, Hon. Secy., G.P. Society. 
December aOth, 1897. 
To balance .. .. Rl,105'29 
PIAMTING NOTES. 
Silkworm. — Our local lovers of sericulture will 
be interested in the following r — “ An interesting 
exiieriiuent is being made by the Department of 
Revenue and Agriculture in the importation of 
a quantity of China silk cocoons (antheiea neinyi). 
These have been procured from mountainous dis. 
tricts in China, and the cocoons are, therefore, 
being sent to Darjeeling and Chakrata.” 
“Passing oe the Old-School Grocer.”— 
Under this heading an article signed “ S. Elwood 
May, successor to the Ceylon Planters’ Tea Co,,’ 
appears in the American “Merchants’ Review.’ 
At the outset the author states that in his many 
travels in pursuit of new clients in the interest of the 
Ceylon planters and their bhud, tiffin and bungaloe 
teas, his mind had been directed to how rapidly con- 
ditions change in that country. He states; — 
Not many years ago, when I pioneered the intro- 
duction of Ceylon tea, the lea^ding grocers of every 
city, large or sn.all, were autocrats, vho stoutly 
resisted any innovations of whatever nature, pleasantly 
dictated to their customers, and followed out their 
own ideas absolutely. This method of procedure 
caused me to study other lines of business, and I 
found that the grocer was the only old-school mer- 
chant successful at that period. Those representing 
other lines of trade had long ago been forced into 
transacting business in accordance with the advanced 
methods of the day. I made up my mind that the 
old-sthool type of grocer, wedded to his traditions 
and ruts would soon find that the prerequisites to 
future success would be the following out of his 
clients’ whims instead of his own. I recently tra- 
velled some six Ihousar.d miles, and in most of the 
cities that I visited the passing of ‘‘ye olden school ” 
grocer was quite visible. 
After relating ineident.s, he concludes : — 
I am one of many who wish the old-time merchants 
yet remaining would change before it is too late, for 
whatever credit may be given to the new school ones, all 
honor to the integrity and lofty purposes on the whole 
that have always existed in the class of the olden school, 
The “ Indian Forester,” edited bv J. W. Oliver, 
Conservator of Forests and Director of the 
Fore.‘t School, Dehra Dun, for December 1897, 
has the following contents Original Articles and 
Translations— Nitrogen ami Forest Crops by E 
Henry, translated by G F Gleadow ; Obituary— 
jMr. C H Hobart-Hampden; Correspondence— Extra 
Pensions for the Forert Department; Dry Rot in 
Deodar trees; Sir Richard Strachev and Indian 
Forestry, letter from AC Wi'd ; The'After-Tiaining 
of Cooper a Hill jMen, letter from ‘‘ Spifiicator ”; 
Official Papers and Intelligence — The Destiuctien 
of the Prickly-pear with the aid of the cochineal 
msect and other paiasites ; Ceara Rubber in a Malabar 
District; Extracts, Notes and Queries : Timber and 
Produce Trade ; and Extracts from Official Gazettes. 
Indian Tea Companie.s,- The Planters’ Store 
anil Agency Company, Ed., has issued an ana- 
lysis of the ^ working of several I ondon Tea 
Companies. Tliree companies .stand far in front 
of the rest in the dividends declared in 1896, 
namely, the Assam Co., the Rrahmaputra Tea 
Co., and the Jorehaut Tea Co., all of wliicli 
yielded dividends of 20 )ier cent. 'Tlie Doom 
Dooiiia Tea Co., and Ralijan Tea Co., come 
next with dividends of 12^ per cent, but as 
regards the profit per iiound of tea, Ralijan and 
Doom Dooma take priority with 4 9/16d and 
4-3/32d. In tlie percentage of profits over the 
entire share and Debenture Capital the Assam 
and Rrahmaputra Tea Companies take tlie lead 
‘2314 and 23 -43 per cent.—/, P. Gazette. 
Ceylon Land and Produce Company.— W e 
omitted to niention that besides the 15 per 
cent of dividends for eacli of the past .six 
years, the fortunate sliai eliolders in tliis Loriipany 
got in addition, in 1893 and eacli of the last 
three years a bonus of 5 per cent, making 2u 
in all. Tl'.e following return issued with the 
annual Iveport of the Directors is of interest: 
THE CEYLON LAND AND DEODUCE COMPANY, LI.MITED 
STATISTICS FOR PAST EIGHT YEARS .’—TEA : 
2 
2““ - 
o 
- 6 
> 
® ci ^ 
1890 
1,131 
354,842 
314 
286,292 
1891 
1,-345 
480,684 
358 
357,648 
1892 
1,385 
503,293 
304 
479,005 
1893 
1,406 
589,192 
419 
. 526,172 
l>-94 
1,451 
608,110 
419 
342,040 
1895 
1,556 
597,399 
384 
435.9(8 
1896 
1,556 
694,720 
446 
590,111 
1897 
1,571 
748,994 
476 
432,0.52 
M 1 —^ ^ 
ee W 
^ rS 
U 
O 
U-2 
c3 ^ 
.^0(0 
qj 03 
15 
9-46d 
9T0d 
7 81d 
7'70d 
6- 77d 
7- 34d 
6-80d 
6-51d 
Pi 
1/6 
1/43 
1/3 
1/24 
1/Jd 
1/2 
1/3 
Ps 
64 06 
48-61 
46-63 
61-33 
46-08 
65-40 
48.37 
43 40 
he 
C3 qj 
rrt Q 
03 
COCOA : 
03 <D 03 
rC .c 
Preference. 
W ? 
DIVIDENDS : 
Ordinary. 
O 
127 
1890 
1,224 
95/11 
115/ 6 
per cent 
10 per cent 
1891 
1,355 
108/ 
129/ 6 
10 
1892 
1,431 
96/5 
120/ 6 
15 „ 
1893 
1,201 
90/11 
150/ 6 
83/ 6 
15 „ 
1894 
1,212 
58/4 
15 „ 
1895 
2,840 
52/9 
65/6 6 
15 
q896 
2,335 
66 8 
80/ 6 
15 
1897 
2,266 
66/1 
85/ 6 
15 „ 
