July i, 1891.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST, 
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for using eattlo dung for fuel, it is evident ihst of all 
measures for the benefit of the people the plnuting of 
woods in the dry interior regions of the contineut is a 
work of the most urgent importance. 
Kobbbt H. Ei,liot. 
Ootacamund, May 31st. 
We have written frequently and copiously on the 
subject discussed in Mr. Bobert Elliot’s letter, 
given above, and we see no reason to 
alter or modify our long-formed opinions. 
The present season has afforded additional proof 
that denudation of forest and its replacement 
by cultivated plants in the mountain and rainy 
region of Ceylon (in the track of the monsoons) 
have not lessened the averaga rainfall over such 
region the thousandth part of an inch. The 
culture of the ground, too, enabling it to 
absorb much of the moisture which falls, has 
largely prevented floods, which, however, oo- 
ourred at intervals in a very formidable fashion, 
when the forest stood unviolated by the woodman’s 
axe. The forest existed in luxuriance on the 
mountains and plains of the sooth-west portion 
of Ceylon, because the region was rainy. In the 
dry and arid parts of the country forest was 
and is either absent, or stunted and peculiar, 
according to quality of soil and contiguity to 
rivers, streams, canals or tanks. We doubt if the 
afforestation of such dry and arid regions, however 
desirable it may be, — and most desirable it is,— 
will increase the actual rainfall by a decimal of an 
inch. But apart from their value, otherwise, forests 
conserve such moisture as may bo deposited or 
may exist, and so they modify temperature and 
the conditions of climate generally- Let forests 
be judiciously conserved and judiciously extended, 
by all means, therefore ; but let there be no 
extravagant expectation that the great dynamical 
laws of nature can bo revolutionized by man’s 
puny efforts. Forest is plentiml beoauso rain is 
plentifnl, but the converse of the proposition is 
not true. Plentiful rain will not follow abundant 
forest, Over a large ) ortion of Ceylon and much 
larger portions of India, natural forest is scarce 
or absent, because of the paucity of rain. To 
produce forest artificially in suoh regions is difificnlt 
but not impossible. Success will secure many 
beneficial oonsequenoes ; amongst the rest economy 
of moisture by reducing floods and evaporation. 
But we are utterly soeptioal as to any appreciable 
inerease of the deposit of rain from the atmosphere, 
by any process of afforestation which can be oor- 
tied out. 
Indian Tea in Pabis.— Mr. Thomas Lough* tells 
me. Bays the oorrespondent of a contemporary, that 
the experiment of optniog a tea pavilion in Paris 
has Bueoeeded beyond all his anticipations. Two 
more establishments are about to be started by 
no same enterprising company, one in the Champs 
Elysees, tnidway between the Palais de 1’ Industrie 
and the Are de Triomphe, and the other on tbe 
oulevard Bonnes-Nouvellea, tbe centre of the 
'S gratifying to find that the 
fastidious Parisians are taking so kindly to Indian 
tea. Uid I ever tell you about a curious remark 
made to me by a Prenohman in Paris a few 
months ago ? We were talking about the growth 
of tea drinking in the gay oapital. My friend 
observed. ‘ Oh yes, I drink tea Ld like it. but 
1 am not l>«o you English, I don't drink it niith 
dinner I This gentleman was the leading 
ffloial in a wellknown banking house, near the 
P ace de 1 Opera, and prided himself on his 
knowledge of our ways,— j/admA Time,. 
Ed ^''^^*** prooeediDg do net fiuu f»vout In Ceylon. - 
The Govebnmbnt Coffee Crop this year for Java 
is estimated at pikols 351,208. — Singapore FreePrett. 
Tannin Wbitino Ink.— D issolve 16 drams tannin 
in 17 IZI. water (Ch. it- Dr.), add a ra xture of 1 oE, 
10 per cent, s dution ot perobloride of iron, 13 drops 
sulphuric acid, and 12 J ozs. water, dissolve in this mix 
tore 6 drams of deep black dye. — E . — Pharmacevtical 
Era. 
Treatment of Ingbown Naid.— De. PurckUanor 
('therapeutic Oaeette, Am. Jour. Afed. Science) moistens 
the surface of the diseased nail with a luke-warm 
10 per cent, solution of caustic potash and then 
.srrspes offllio softened upper layer with a sharp-edged 
piece of glass. Afters second iipplication the scraping 
is ooutiuued until the nail is as thin as a sheet 
of pipe'. It is then lifted up from the soft parts 
with foroep.s and the diseased parts are excised. 
—Pharmaceutical Era. 
Tea at £30 per Pound. — Ot course there is no 
reason wby there should be auy limit to tbe price 
(iffered for golden-tip tea if the buyers think that by 
spending their money that way they get more fun 
from an advertisement point of view. Asmeulioned 
last week by our Commissioner in the Lane, a little 
box of tea weighing 5 Ib. net, and containing silver- 
leaf flowery Pekoe, from the Kellie Estate in Ceylon, 
WAS sold on Thursday ar. £30 per lb., or equal to 
about 87s per ounce. Tbe lot was knocked down to 
Me-srs. Hawes fc Co., tea brokers, who bought it for 
Mr. Owen Edwards, dealer, of King William Street. — 
11. and C Hail. 
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