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THE TROPICAL AQRIOULTURIST. 
[July i, 1891, 
" CWFEE ” AND 
THE DECREASE 
OF 
BARK AND DRUG REPORT. 
POPULATION IN THE CENTRAL 
AND UVA PROVINCES. 
I 
IHB HOST or MWOOUNTRX DEMNDBKTB OH " COUTBS ' 
WHO MOST HiVM CIBiPfEilUJU WHIIH OOPYKB WENT. 
A well-informed aorreepoadent thus indioutee how 
naiive population in the ooflce diatriota of the 
hilloountr/ moat hare melted away with the dia- 
appeaianoe of their meane of eubaistenao, direct or 
indireot, in ooffse. Not aimply did the Kandyan 
Tillagera euffar, and to aome extent, being Bold out, 
migrate; bat a much larger boat of lowoounlry 
boutiquekeepera, aitifiuere, earvauta, oartera, et hoc 
t/mus omm had to move and return to the maritime 
diatriota, We quote aa folluwa ; — 
" It ia clear that the damage aulTercd by the lost 
of cufTco, t. (. the actnal lose of income to vilfagere, was 
fat larger Ibau the OuveromeDt baa ever fully realized. 
This bears very strongly on the latest folly of ‘ the 
philAOthropiat/ that the reduction in numbers in 
the Oentral Froviuco shown by the psst eeosus is 
due to sales for grain tax. It is of course dne to 
the loss of eo0«e which has produced the removsl 
from tba Oentral Province and above all from the 
liuea of the great highways, to other parts all (hut 
large alien population which lived by ocffen, either 
by its growth or fy its trsnsport. 
“ And one proof is this. In Kandy Dislriet proper 
there are three Kaleoiahatmayas' divisions, the 
oqlleotion of the tar iu which has been always mode 
without diairaiut ; in fact where the tax is borne 
with esBO, — Hariapattn, Fata Duoibara, and Psia 
Uewahets, There are thrtu whore there has alwsy.i 
baon diffioulty and acme, but, except ia the ueooad, 
not many, saloa,— Tucapuua, UJu Diimbura, and Uda 
Palata. it ahould follow, if the philaulhropist is 
corroot, that the population of the brsl threo should 
have inoreased or at the worst remaiued stationary 
—and that the populatiun of the last three should hove 
diminished. As a faot they have all (except 1 think 
Tuujpana which has increased) diminished m muoh 
the saniu proportion. 
“ You have yourHeif hit the blot iu pointing at 
Alatalo Distriot, where the tax bae always been 
collected wiihont difficulty, but which has lost 13 per 
cent. Malttle has lost more than Wulapana !" 
Vos, Mstslo lost the lowoouutry bontiquekoepois, 
servants, artificers, &o., Ac., who wore supported by 
the coffee enterprise. But of ooutse, the dimiuished 
populitioii will continue to be traced in ceriaiu quarlers 
to the ■' opproBsivo ” rent of rice lauds. 
RAINFALL AT LAHUOAMA. 
For five years on Labugama estate 
From Ist January to Slst Uaermber 18SG 148-67. 
Tile highest tail during this year was on 
if ay 18 th .... 5-53 
I'fom 1st Jannary to Slot Uecombor 1887 161-22 
The highest fall during this yosr was on 
April 27th . . g.qo 
From Isl January to 31sl December 1888 144-82 
The highest fa 1 during this year was on 
May 26 h ... 6-04 
From Ist January to 31st December 1889 171 30 
The highest iall during this year was ou 
April 29th ... 0-12 
From Ut January to Slst Deoembs 1890 148-09 
The higlioat lull during tliis yoar waa on 
May 28th ... 6-OJ 
t'roui Ist Jtnuury jq 22ud May 1891 62-84 
Ihe bighost fad during this period was on 
April 7th ... 7.30 
[So that tho highest daily fall is credited to 
1891 ,— Ed, T. a.] 
(From the C}umi$t and Druggiti.) 
London, April SOth, 
Anwatto.— A pAToei of la paokAgea bright) Ceylon §eod 
ie hold for SH por lb.« An offer at being declined ; 
another lot of damp eeed sold at l^d per lb. 
CwoHowAs— The Urge supply of 833 bales auAyaqull 
barli was nearly all dlwposed of with fair competitron, 
109 bales Belling at somewhat Irregular, hut I'n the 
whole steady, priooet good silvory and mossy qutll 8^ 
to 9kd : medium to bold brown ditto 5d to 7d i moMy 
oWp» M to ; brown ditto 8d to Sfd j epllt In thin 
ohips 3d down to Id per lb. Of flat Oallsaya 6 soruns 
damaged sold at Od to Is Jid ; 74 paokegoi flat damaged 
Caithsgena bought In at Bd ptr lb,, only one lot, very 
badly aemsged, selling at 4d to Sd pet lb. The follow- 
ing flgutsa cefsr to the exports of cinchona bark 
from Java during the eight months between July ist 
and February 28tn : — 
1800-91 18bt-»0 1888-89 ISSf-IS 1886-87 
„ , , , >h. lb. lb. lb. lb. 
Private ) 
plantations [4,838, 9«J 8.013,830 8,1144,870 3,001.171 1,136,310 
Amst. J 
Goyt. ) 
planta- [ 404,818 394.780 639,110 400,663 480,777 
tiaoe, Amst. i 
Total #,373,810 3,407,410 3,773,980 3,191,834 1,608,087 
THE SALE OF FINE TEA. 
We are pleased to find that our recent articles on this 
snbjeot have been laigely tt-produeod by tho grocery 
press in America, and have elicited general expressions 
of approval. Tho samti advico that wo liaro givon to 
English grooore— v.x, to sell as fine a quality of goods all 
round as they possibly can — ia also given by our ooutom- 
porarieetq the grocers ol Amartca, and almost exactly 
the same hue of argumoot ia uao l. Thus the Canadian 
Urocer, alter republishing an artiole from this journal, 
wherein oat readers ace ailviie.1 to avoid lowpriced 
inbbish and push higher class teas, says .— 
The aboxe Will answer quite as wall for American 
grocers. Last year the imports of tea were Urge, but 
the declared value of the 89,249,443 lb. imported was 
htllo over 16 cents per pound ! This does not indioalo 
a very high grade of tea, and reveals one reaso nwhy 
out people prefer ooffeo or beer, for tho two latter 
have become national beverages, we using about sixteen 
gallons per capita of coffee, and twelve gallons 
por capita of beer per annum, to about six gallons 
of tea. There are both profit and satisfaotion in 
handling fine tea. It makes trade. Customers ss soon aa 
their attention is direotcii to the matter, will discover 
that there are pronounced differences in fiavour and 
come to appreoiata the doUcato fragrance of a fine leaf 
instead of as now, being saUafied with any sort of an 
mfusion so long as it i. warm. People wifi soon loatu 
that a high-pr.sed loa is very little more expensive 
than a cheap tea. The Ceyl u factors imoiesVnDon 
:rrK ifK rs -7, » 
This is sound common-sense, and msv bo sludiad 
bui alw^'t^r “■« frro8erJof\me,i» 
01 anyiuing Detter. If they are offered the ohanoe of 
o* » similar 
ooamqdity. Grocers should most carefully study their 
taste in this respect, and strive to supply only one 
class of goods, vtz. tlia bcsI.-Grcrcr. 
