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THP TROPICAL AQRI0ULTURI8T. 
[August i, 1891. 
THE DUTCH MARKET. 
Amsterdam, May 30th. 
All the analyses of the oinohons-bark sales, which 
will take place ia Amsterdam on June 11th, 1891, 
have been published now. The manufacturing bark 
oontaina about 10 tons snlphate of quinine, or 3 87 per 
cent on the average, divided aa follows About IJ 
tona oontain O'l per cent ; 18, T9 ; S3, 2 3 ; 70, 3 4 ; 
38, 4-5 : 32i, S'8 : 19, 8 7 ; 6. 7-8 ; 1}, 8'9 per cent 
sulphate of quinine. — ChemUt and Drugsiat, 
TaauaSikN Fbuit in Tondo*.— Considerable interest 
was shown in Covent Garden Market, on Friday lu 
last week, upon the arrival of the first of the real 
Taainauian Apples, the fruit reoeotly received from 
the Antipodes being from Australia proper and New 
Zealand. Apples consigned to Mr. Duthoit, a city 
merchant, had the diatincticn of being the first to 
bo sold, the fruit realising from 163. to 25s. per 
busheloase, and being in splendid oonditioo.— tJardsnsri' 
Chronicle. 
Tbb IiocTjsx PhiocB oontinoos unabated in the 
Punjab. Government indeed appears to have taken 
some measures to prevent its spread, but they 
are evidently altogether inadequate ; and as a 
natural result much sickneae is prevalent, the water 
contaminated by dead loousts having brought in a 
fever . — Mairaa 7imta, June 4th. 
OoUNTINO COOONOTS IN THB HbUVII ISLANDS. — The 
Report of the Australian and Polynesian Races 
Bibliography Committee of the Australasian Asso- 
oiation for the Advanoement of Soienoo contains 
a memoir on the people of Mangaia (Hervey Islands) 
by the Bov. W, Wyatt Gill. It embodies impor- 
tant original evidence as to the practices assooiated 
with birth and childhood, maturity, circumcision, 
and marriage, the tribal, sooial, and domeslio 
ouitoms, the doings of wiaards, the superstitions 
relating to death and the spirit world, and the 
mythology ot the people. A list of numerals is 
appended, from whioh it would seem that they are 
abM to count comparatively high numbers, though 
the word "aaere” tor hundred ia adopted from 
the English. Coconuts from time immemorial tied 
up in fours, five of which make one “ lakau," and 
names are given for multiples by ten up to four 
stages beyond, so that they are capable of aouuting 
a •• tiui," or 200,000 eooonuts. Mr. Gill also givee 
a brief analyeis of the grammatiosl structure of the 
language,— A tfictiwum, May 30th. 
OoFran in Southbbn India. — If ft corre.^ipoiul- 
ent of the Madras Timea is to be believed, our 
staple is not nearly in such a dcelining way in 
Southern India as the oQleial figures we published 
the other day would indioate. The oritieism on 
these is as follows;— 
If these figures were eorreot, it would mean that 
nearly 60,000 acres of coffee had gone out or been 
abandoned in four yeare, via., 11,000 in Mysore, 9,600 
in Coorg, and 38,000 in this Presidency. Taking Uoorg 
for instance, during the last five years, more laud has 
been opened than abandoned, and 9,500 acres probably 
renreaenl very nearly the total acreage of abandoned 
coffee in the province. Aafor the Madras Preaidaney, 
the MJltlcment of Wynaad no d oubt Musod the offloiaj 
IXrns of land under coffee to be set down at a good 
deaf ?ower figure than previonaly, but accord mg to 
t“ latent returns there 8re stated to be 76,000 .ere. 
under ritivatioD. and I should very much doubt if all 
the ooltse land abandoned, “y'f,® ‘'“'‘"4 
ten years cornea to anything *'be f'(690 acres. 
Mysore end Ooorg are exceptional diatriots , but 
surely the process which has brought coffee land 
down from 250.000 to 60,000 acres ^ Ceylon, has 
had its parallel to a great eitent in the Wynaad 
diatiioti. lo Travanoore, we know it nas been so. 
Foiubm rr Covveb. — DiarU) Popular (Brazil); 
of the ,30th ultimo is informed by a person who 
has roeoutly visited some of the coffee dielrieta of 
B. Paulo, that the next ooffeo crop in that State 
will reach 3,500,000 bags, and that within five 
years the annual production of ooffse in the State 
will amount to 8,000,000 bage.— American Qrocer. 
Scent Fabmi-No promises to bo n vary profitable 
industry in Victoria, according to the newly-issued 
report of the Royal Commission on vegetable products. 
The climate ami soil of tho colony are declared to 
be parlicnlarly well suited for the ouUivatiun of per- 
fumo-yiolding plants. Already scout farms are spring- 
ing up, aud the day may not lit far distant whon 
alar ot Hoses or the like may oomo to us from “ Britain 
of tho Southern Gross.” — Ijardenen’ Chronicle. 
SuN-DBIED CkYLON Tka AND OVEB-KIRINO. — 
Messrs, lluoker <k Beooraft in their latest Tea 
Oiroulsr (May 28tb) offer remarks worthy of the 
general attention of planters, thus, — 
The lall in price has, os we anticipated, led to brisk 
buying on the part of tbu trade, and we considor that 
lost gronnd was recovered at auotiou, perhaps to tho 
extent of Jd per lb., on the lower grades. The present 
range of prices, cousidoriiig the roduotiou of duty, the, 
increased consumption, and the absence of oompetitiou, 
from Indian Toas, is not snob, we think, as to deter 
tree buying. — Tho very heavy Hnsbing in April led, we 
are tolo, to hasty preparation for shipment, and doubtlese 
had something to do with tho lower qnolily apparent 
in (bis mouth's assortment ; bnl we look for improve- 
ment, and already tho Teas oomiug to hand are better. 
— We hove acen today a sample of fine Oeylon Tea 
sun-dried only. This tea has been slightly fermented, 
but the sun has apparently had enough power to dry 
the leif, to “ fire" it in fact sutHoioutly to arrest fsr- 
reiitatiun, and tho tea is in perleot oondition. We 
submit this goes tar to support onr oontention that as 
a rule Cevloo teas are fired too much or too long, more 
at any rate than is necessary for their keeping qualities. 
Cacelino and CROWiNa.— Tho Pioneer deals 
with Mr, Romanes after ao amusing fashion, aud 
we quote as follows ; — 
The world has hitherto taken the crowing of chan- 
tioleer and the osokling of the common or baru-door 
fowl upon trust. It bad never ooourred to any one te 
soppose a time when peradventuro the eook did not 
orow. Why the ben cackled, or whereunto the cook 
crew, were questions that wore never answered because 
they were never naked. In these latter days, how- 
ever, it there is anything whioh ahall not be revealed 
it will ocrtainly not be for want of the asking ; and it 
hat occurred to the iuquring mind of Mr. George 
Romanes, the well-known biologist, to inquire whether 
tho crowing of ohantioleer may not have been evolved 
by eoutact with the refinements of the barn-yard, 
much as some ladies will find their voico only when 
there is present a sufifioieutly diatinguishad oompaay. 
Hr. 8. E- Fcal writea from Sibiagar, Assam, to say 
that in the extrema eaat of Assam, on the Upper 
Diking River, ha has often heard the wild jungle oock 
(O. farrugina) orowiag. He admits at tho same time 
that the voice of the wild fowl is " thinner, more wiry 
and high pitched and be adds the interesting obser- 
vation, " Kggs found in the jungles are often hatohed 
under domeslio fowls, and hence these are frequently 
crossed, and the crow of the cook varies much in con- 
sequence." Thus, while there wss probably never a 
cook that had not a crow in him, a jndioious crossing 
of the fowl of the jungle and the fowl of the barn^ 
yard might result in an infinite variety of crow j so 
that Professor Romanes has, still a groat field for ex- 
periment and investigation. 
We have yet to learn what Mr. Romanes has to say 
to the information sent to him from Oeylon whioh 
goes to show that when the domestioatod fowl oom- 
menoes to lay away from home in the jungle, she, 
like her wild sister, ceases to cackle, Mr, Komanes 
bad better pay a visit to the island to investigate 
the matter thoroughly, 
