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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[March i. 1898. 
They did not insist, in the event of any planter 
wishing to part with a gang, upon anytliing. 
Tliere would he no objection to his putting on 
the tandu anything lie likeil. He wanted to 
part with them and there was no reason why 
they should not go to take the debt ; but wlien 
their kangani came to them and said he wanted 
to go they said : Here is your timdu.’' They 
wanted to prevent him going to anotlier estate 
and getting a larger amount than they had 
given to him If they did this it would pre- 
vent the Coast advances rising. If tliey ac- 
cepted these rules that day it was but the first 
•step. They had taken the initiative as the 
I’. A., but the P.A. could not carry it through 
themselves. Everyone must help. They had limited 
the number of those who mu.“t .support it at 75 ]ier 
cent, and o herwise it could not take effect, but 
lie hoped every planter wouhl join the Federa- 
tion and give it all the assistance in his power. 
He would ajipeal to every jilanter in Ceylon. 
Even if they could not coiiseut to all the rules, 
but then at all events give the thing a trial. 
If they did not they remained as they now were, 
in the hands of their coolies, ami could only go 
trom had to tvorse. 
Mr. Huxley Seconded. 
Mr. A. M. Foebks then asked that the rules 
should be read, and they were read by the Secretary. 
Mr. Forbes said he could not follow’ Mr. 
Campbell in his remarks as to Kule 3. He said 
that in the event of their giving a tumlu wish- 
ing to get rid of a gang of coolies, it was im- 
imaterial w’hether they put the amount of the 
advances due to the estate on it or coupled with 
t aany number of advances representing outside 
debts. He took exception to that. He thought 
it should be understood that when they gave a 
tundu to ft! gang of coolies leaving an estate 
they should have nothing to do witli outside 
debts whatever (applause), .and that only the 
mount due on that estate should be put in the 
und,a, 
Mr. Forsythe s.aid he would like to ask what 
the mover would do if the kangany said “unless 
you include all the debts on my tundu I am 
afraid I cannot get the money in. I am afraid 
the coolies will run aw'ay and we shall lose 
half the money.” 
Mr. Skrine said he supported the last speaker. 
It appeared to him to be class legislation. They 
wouM be putting the kanganies in a very 
ti"ht place, especially on estates working on 
sliort time. 'I'he Chetty kept the coolies going 
and they incurred debt. In that case it was very 
hard if he could not get his money. If they 
did put the kangani in a tight place, it would 
do great harm to the kaaigani system which 
had worked so admirably. Indian pi liters, who 
knew the indenture mischief, knew how fortu- 
nate the jdanters of Ceylon were in having this 
kangani system. He thought something might 
be done to compel chetties to notify their chums 
to kanganies or the estates, but, as to the reso- 
lution itself, lor his p.art he should demur before 
having anything to do with tlie rules. 
Mr. A. M. Forbes said that in regard to what 
Mr. Forsyth had said, in the event of a kangani 
coining to them and saying “If you don’t give 
me a inndu for so and so, part of the advances 
on the men, I shall have no end of difbeulty 
in getting the money 1 owe you,” he toidc ex- 
ception to that. He said that if they did smdi 
a thing they ran the risk of laying themselves 
open to compounding <‘i fraud. A kangani came 
to them and said he ow’ed the kaddics this and 
that and the other, and what proof had they 
got of that. If they gave him a tundu for the 
advances actually due to the estate plus the 
imaginary advances he owed the kaddies, he 
thought they w’ere lending themselves to what 
might be a fraud (hear, hear). 
Mr. L. Stuart said he would like to say that 
the whole scheme at present seemed very incom- 
plete, but at the same time he thought it was 
a step in the right direction, and he hoped the 
move might be made (hear, he.ar). 
The Chairman said that the few words the 
last speaker had said was just wh.at the Com- 
mittee thought. The Committee did not pretend 
to have a perfect scheme. They h.ad done the 
best they could to prevent the roving about of 
kanganies. It was chiefly the head kanganies this 
would effect. The sub-kanganies would not be down 
in the estate books, and therefore they were obliged 
to take their head kanganies’ word and when 
they were paying off a sub-kangani they mu.st 
take what they .agreed to between them. It 
was to prevent whole gangs leaving estates for 
the sake of compelling one estate to give them 
more advances. Now the one estate could refuse 
and the k.angani demanded his tundu and went on 
to the next. The proposed rules had been largely 
supported, and if three-fourths of the planting com- 
munity were prepared to give it a chance of working 
for one year, they would, he was confident, be 
able to improve their rules by finding where the 
fault lay. He thought it was w’orth their while 
to give them a chance, and he did not think it 
would inflict a h.ardsldp on the kanganies. He 
thought that under Federation they would find 
that after all the planters were their best friends. 
They were protecting them from being lifted 
from one estate to another, because the creditor 
pressed them. And he thought, when it was 
found they did not go, the creditor would not press 
them. Let them give it a trial, and before the 
first twelve months were out, he thought that 
they would strengthen the rules, that they would 
see the weak points in them and would have a 
much more w’orkable scheme for 1898. (Hear, 
hear). 
The question was then put to the meeting and 
the rules were passed with only one member (Mr. 
Forbes) dissenting. 
CACAO DISEASE. 
(Fromthc Proceedings of Ihc Ceylon Planters’ Asso, 
elation, held 17th February, 1898.) 
Mr. H. DE Sanctis moved : — “ That this A‘ so- 
oi.ation do have an analysis made of the whole of 
the cacao tree, leaves, branches, stem and pods.” 
He explained that some time ago he saw it ad- 
vertised by Messrs. Freudenberg & Co., that there 
w'crc ic]i i ts by Mr. Cochran, but the pamphlet 
staled that t .ere w’as no definite information 
available on the subject, and it struck him that 
that Association whuh had spent two or three 
thousand rupees on collce might afford to spend 
two or three hundred rupees on cacao so as to prevent 
disease. If there w'as something wanted in the 
soil they^wished to find that out and when they 
knew what a healthy tree was made of they 
would know what to supjily. The cost for each 
analysis would be R50, making K250 in all. 
Mr. Ryan seconded. 
Mr. Christie said that as they were discussing 
a scientific matter in connection with cacao dis- 
ease he would like to give some little information 
to the Association in regard to the non-appoint- 
ment of a Government cryptogamist. He had 
