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THE TROPICAL AQRIOULTURIST 
[August i, 1891. 
IIAPUTALE WEST DISTBICT: AS IT WAS 
AND AS IT IS. 
The (olloffiog account ol tbs plantations in this 
out of the-way distiiot was written tor us soma time 
ago; but the manuscript got mislaid and so has never 
been used. The account is, bowerer, of historical 
if not present intereet ; but in giving it to cur 
readers, we have seoureJ from a well-informed 
quarter, a supplementary Beport which brings our 
information up to date. Here is the origiuel paper ; — 
HAPUTALE WK8T. 
( llViften ill 18S9 f) 
Banoomo BstAVR. — A tmell piece plaoted up almost 
entirely with reputed lodgeriaua ; sine*, ell evaiUble 
bark harvested, and the place is rauw abandoned. 
CAU.AHI 1 KR Bstatk in Iba Bainpabana Valley l.as 
afield of 40 aoros of very flue ooftae, wbioli I believe 
gave AOO bachela parchment last year, and under 
favorable ciraumstancoe it oegbt to do belter Ibis year ; 
it has a ooiieidoraMe amount of cinobnna scattered 
throughout the coffee which baa yielded, in shavings 
alone, large quantities of bark. Under a syatemalio 
shaving, from 8,000 to 10,000 lb. of bark, all renewed, 
ought to bo prooured. About 40 acres planted op in 
tea last N.-E. mor.eoou ts coming forward very rapidly. 
Mr. Mavow’s BnocK was originally planted np in 
oinohona, and thia after the lajise of a year or two 
(3 years I think) was uprooted and the bark harvested. 
A very small nursery was laid dawn with tea seed 
and allowed to lake Us chance, and the plants in it 
throve so wall, that Mr. .Msyow lias, I believe, since 
planteld up th" whole 60 acres with tea. 
Ouneuama Estate properly speaking is not in the 
Hsputalo district at all, nor does it in any respect 
resemble the Ilsputale climate, or share the Hspntsle 
rainfall, — it is decidedly in the Baiangodn district. 
I went over it some three ranutbsago with Ur. Bmart 
the superintendent. It has over a hundred acres of 
coffen which still bears, and I understand that Isat 
yoar’sorop was over 3,000 hushols. It also has aoon- 
sidorabla area planted np with lea rising two years old 
and for growth it will oompare with any I hive seen 
up here. I don’t know what yield of bark it gave last 
year, but I should imagine that of renewed abavings 
they oould get for the coming year say 16,000 lb. 
Part of the store has boen oonverted into a tea faetory, 
and plucking will be oommi nosd shortly if they have 
not airsdy stsriad, 
Ke*n40AhaelI,A Estate. — T he same remarks apply 
here is iu the case Deuegama the estate is actually 
within 3 miles of Biilsuguda town and distant about 
18 miles from Haldnmmulla. It possesses 30 sores of 
tea in full bearing, besides a number of other pro- 
ducts, ooffee, cardamoms, cinebona stieciriibra, nnnatto, 
and ertons. The oiptoled coffee crop is 1,080 bushels; 
and I am, I think, witbiu the mark In puttingt tea 
down at lO.dOOlb. Mr. Bastard informed me that llio 
annattoand crotons had jicldnd him very bano'toine 
crops, and from the latter mure especially winch bos 
given him handsome profiis, Ifrom enoc rubra he 
ought, wllb mdieiouB shaving, to get 6,000 lb. easily 
as although he has got no Urge area under cinchona 
what be has is chiefly 6 or 7 years old and hts been 
onU once shaved. 
Ettrick Estate has still got lair besting coffee, 
f^tit is being rapidly put Into tea. They have been pluck- 
ing leaf for the fast nine menihs, aiul it is purchased 
and maunfsetured for Uiralouvsh. The yiebl is 
increasing, and judging from the aiea which will cumo 
into bearing this year, 5,000 lb. ought to bo easily ob- 
tained. I cannot speak as to the coffee or oinohnua. 
O-AniAOAMUA is now entirely abandoned, and ao Is 
also. 
Qrockebita in the Kalupahana Valley. 
HiRAnobvAn.— I can give you pretty accurate in for- 
mation as to probable yield of all products here. 
Ooffee, 1 estimate at say 1,200 bushels, l ea 10,000 
Ib. from 40acro9; cinchona — reutwed Hhiivin;jB suooiru- 
bra, offloinalls, and hybrid, from 16,000 to 20,000 lb. 
and Cardamoms from 5 acres 500 lb. IVa promises well 
here and the growth is decidedly good. There are | 
now ISO acres fully planted up with Ibis product. 
Lentbax in the Kalupahana Valley has been almoal 
entirely planted up with tea, slthough Mr. White still 
reaps enough from coffee and oiochnna to enable him 
to plant tea without diving deeper into bis purso. It 
last year gave 400 bukhsls coffee and about 10,000 lb. 
of shavings fiom cinchona, and it will do better still 
this year as there arc soma magnificent speoiinons of 
succirubara on (ho eststo. The tea will not be bear- 
ing for another year yet as it was only last year planted, 
with the exception of a few thousands put out the 
previous yi ar by way of experiment. 
Leviujbn is another of the ^lupabana places, and now 
entirely abandoned. It was pnrtly planted with tea, and 
in i-pile of Iho cbenawhiob now covers the whole estate, 
the tea biiabes may be seen growing luxuriantly and 
holding its own ngainat all the surroundings of ebona, 
weeds. A -. 
M eehiatknne, Last Estate in the Ka LopahanaVa lle y 
neah UAiDuiiMULLA — Planted in coffee and cinchona, 
but the former is of very Utile account, and never will 
recoup the money expended on it. The einohona is. 
huwever, remarkably fino, and nothing in Haputala 
that I have seen can compare with it. If the value 
of the product is not going to go out entirely, this 
will he one oi the most valuable cinoboua properties 
in the island. The eststo contained at the lowest 
ehtlmale a buiidrc l thou-and of nil ages up to six years 
and Ibe greater percentage is over 1 years old. The 
trees have never been shaved, and litlla or no lopping 
has been done, Iho proprietor, Mr. Anderson, having 
an idi a that by allowing them to grow as naturally 
as pos.siblo thogiowth is very niuch aooolcrnted, and 
that ho will oveutuolly reap much larger profits. 
Wore he to shave the whole oinohona, ho oould, I 
think, easily ob'aiu i60,00il Ib. hark from one round, 
'rhi-re is no tea on the estate. 
Naobak and Niadova, Kalupahana Valley.— M r. 
Orchard has 10 acres of t:a here which ho still oulti- 
vaU'.s as regards weeding. It is now rising three years 
old, and is hsing allowed to grow up wlih a view, I 
think, lo bt coming seed-bearing trees. If Mr. O.ohard 
oared he might by plucking it regularly, after pruning 
down, get 3,000 lb. or 300 lb. per acre. 
Nonpareil and Uoaldua I have never been over, 
and 1 OAUuot speak as to their capabilities. The 
former has. howev ir, long retained a good name as a 
cclfoe-butitiug (State. 
West IIaphtalf. is r. w fully planted with tea, and 
to thorn who cast di , .raging remarks on the Kalu- 
pihana Valley let them visit this estate and believe 
what they see. The tea is now eluae on 2yeais old, 
and a finer sheet cf Ua for its age is not to be found 
iu the ieland. It U the best oriteriou that osn be 
brought forward in proof nf the Valley being best 
suiteiJ for the cultivation of this product, au(l we will 
yet, I think see this inneU despieed ooruer the scene 
of bury life. 1 bis estate will, ere many yoirs are 
over, fully ri p»y the euterpriza displayed by the pro- 
prietor, Mr. Mills, who is in every way worthy of it, 
tor having stuck 1 1 his belief in the face of the sur- 
rounding proprietors, one and sll, abauduning tlisir 
properties. 
WelatbnnE is not yet planted up in tea, but the 
proprietors, I believe, meditate doing so thia year. It 
still coolaius some very fine oinohona from which a lot 
of bark has haitn obtained, and it will still yield as 
much if a judicious course of shaving be adapted. 
All the other blocks in West Haputale are either 
not epeued up or have been opeued aud ultimately 
sbandonoJ. _ ’lliere is no doubt sbciot the entiro suc- 
ce-B of tea ill the Katupabaus Valley, wherever it has 
been tried ; and 1 think it is equally certain that, if 
the article keeps up in price, we will, ere many years 
are past, see many huudrods of acres fully opeued up 
in this product. 
The Beport just received ebjb : - 
HAPUTALE WEST IN 1891. 
The detailed Krport on Ihe estate in this district 
written soino three years ago was I think a very 
correct description aud I would not attempt to 
give you such a orreful Itupurt on the present state 
