is6 THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [October i, 1891. 
tion to ludUn Tea, on a eca’e which may olHroat^ly 
compare with the ^rope and talent di»phiyed by those 
intereat'^d In puahlo^r Ceylon Tesa in thi$ country. The 
woHkeatpart In the Pr<'Bp*clus Is «ho nb^ence of nuy 
atatiatica or data, showing the actual resnlta and rate of 
Improvemeot In the salea, einod the atari, at the Puria 
Eiblbitioo. To tboae outsidera, If any» who might be 
tempted to subscribe, thia omisalon might bo ominous, 
ta It would, of courae be the first thing looked for. I 
hear that tbe hairy dust is now being removfd from the 
•ortlng rooms in some Oeylon Tea Factories by means 
of small siaed Blackman Fans . — Indian Planifrn' Gazette 
THE WRECK OF THE QUININE 
COMBINATION. 
In our iaaue of Joly ISUi we expressed^ the belief 
that the last word bad uot yet been said m the die* 
pute between the Auerbach aud tbe Brunswick quinine 
fastorios. Our anticipation prorea cornet, we 
have this week received a communication from Mr. 
Hugo Andreae, the prenideut of tbe Aucrbicb factory, 
in which he malutolus the oorrectuces uf tbe pre> 
vioue Btatementa, and affords us one or two more 
glimpaea into the history of the combination negotia> 
tioQS, which we will chronicle hero, not only for the 
take of tbe historical interest wh«cb they po.^sia*, 
hut also beoaoee they may indicate tbe outiioes upon 
which future attempts at oombiuatiou building will 
probably proceed. In tbe first place, Mr. Anartae 
explains that, though the figure of 50 marks per 
kilo, was eorreotly mentio'-ed by the Brniiiiwiok 
works as the proposed combiuation>priod for eulphato 
of quinine, that figure was constructed of purely 
imaginary ©lementa, tbe figures in the “protocol,'* 
eaibod>ing the basis of the combination, btir g only 
intended to illustrute tbo proposal of the promo- 
ters of the ring. Tbe wording of this pait of the 
“ protocol ** ia aa follows t — 
1^ 7. A cortaiu amount shall be added thereto for 
coat of preduotlou (this amount to be added.) 
§ 8. A profit (to bo aurc-ed on) to be added to 
this figure and sum total to form the mluimum 
selling pfioe. 
Example: 
Price of sulphate in bark, according to 
paragraph 5 .. •• •• «• 2Sa porkilc. 
Oost of pruduQtion 158 per kilo. 
38a pur kilo. 
(Including all charge a, freight, Ac.) : — 
Profit agreed upon 12a per kilo. 
Minimum selling price ... ,* 
The figuces, aaye Mr. Andreae, ahould bu Inkcn in a 
purely embl matio aouao, in piouf 1 1' which he pointa 
out that the amouLi of 159 por kilo, in so much In 
cxoeaa of what all qumiuo tuuijufAcluiorH know to Lo 
thereat coat of production that It unuM not possibly 
have been meant to imliouie the actu.tl intonti >ns of 
the would-be combiners. 
In our article of July Ith we specially took exoep- 
tioQ to tliie c.'itiroate of the oott of tbo prcduolfon of 
quinine as an exaggerated one. It further rppeara 
from Mr. Andreae’s letter tlm t.h • •* c 1” was 
handed bv the Au«'rbach to the HtuoKwick repre- 
sentative, not in London, bnt ut Krunkf. vb-o/M., the 
seat of ai other «f the f' nr Co man fac oriei. Tha 
selection of Frai kfort aa tt.e in.-tting pl«co of the 
oppo iug interests not unnaUirally niggesls that, on 
•tbe German Mde, tlm Auerbach sod Frankfort fac- 
toriea were the two firnis mo t anx ou^ to bring th” 
negotiatiouB to a si (‘ mssful i aue. Lit the Brun wick 
directors were ob^n ste ('••nn the on set At llie 
Frankfort meeting they uei Nriul ihat no consider - 
tiona would ininee tli m 1' sacrifice tlnir freen«.ni 
of action, and at a BnbeM| "eiit 'tHg<‘ iif th p otee* Uigs 
they altogether refused *o at»n;l the ciufereuc s, 
while the London agent of tlio Bru' awick In U'ry 
selected tbe very moment when tbe negotiations 
approachad a ciitioal stage, in the middle (£ January, 
to depress the qoiniae market by offering the drug 
right and left at reduced prices. If Mr. Andreae is 
correct, tbe poaltion of the Brunswick works was 
one of antagoi Brn to the planting interests, while 
the other nunufacturers uesired, if possible, to 
iuclude all tbe planters — and certainly the prinol« 
pal producers in Java and Ceylon — within the pro- 
jected combination. In hlslettir to us, Mr. Hugo An- 
dreao claims that all the quinine manufacturers, except 
tbe Brunswick wrrks, adopthis sideof the qucaiiou, 
and agreo that it would have b^ru folly to endeavour 
to establish a combination which left the planters 
outside— t. a., in opposition. 
lu othrr words, Auirbaob, according to its apologist, 
inviiel tlio motley uiuhiplioity of ioterests to ee^k 
salvation beneath tbe ample folds of the grand old 
conibinatioo umbrellii, while Brunswick iusisted upon 
figuiiiigasthe man «ho temaiued true to one parly 
oi.ly, aud that party was himself. ** To leave out tbe 
planters,” tbuB argued tbe majority, ** will be to on* 
courage them to fono A combination of their owu, to 
estabiteh a quiuioo factory in the East, and to btcome 
their own manufacturers.*’ Buch a step has been in 
coi.templhtion before, and, were the growers to let 
about ita roalUaLion in a determined manner* it is 
quite pcsaible that the scheme urght be worked sue- 
ce^slully. But up to the preRrntthe planters have 
shown no more capacity for orgaidsation than the 
quinine manufacturera tbemsclvos. 
With regard to the view (set forth by lha Brunswick 
worke as the mainn^asonof their withdrawal from the 
negotiaiioua), that it would be impossible to provide for 
the absorptiun of the surplus prcdncliou ot hark by the 
ocmbiuaUrn, Mr. Hugo Andreae asserts that tbe com- 
bination promoters hoped to obtain tbo adhesion of the 
principal planters to a scheme for the reduction of the 
output of bark, while they were prepar<:d, if no other 
way out of the difficulty oouM he found, tn buy up nnd 
pu aside auoli a proportion of the stock of bark as would 
pi'tyeiit tbe queatioii of over-bupply bi*comming npre»*a- 
iu^ ono for roniotime. Tbe preHitlent rf the Auurbaob 
fa*^lory believes that the eatablii-l'mentef a union among 
th^plauters would have been a difficult, bnt by no means 
an^impot-sible, undertaking, and he holdK that, if tbe 
liirger producers could have been sot tugeihir, the 
smaller ones might have been safely left aloi o it they 
choBO to remniii outside. But among the innmi- 
faciurers no ontaider could be allowed if the seheiuo 
were to succeed 
It is only just to roitoiat-e that the preceding 
observations are based wholly upon the view taken 
by tbe Auerbach factory, and that turther communica- 
tions by other parti^^s to the negoiiaiions might place 
mailers in a somewhat different light. Bitt, at any 
rale, wo cannot atfeot sorrow at the failure of the 
quinine interests to form a great organisation which 
would have absolutoly controlled tiie market and 
re niercd suooeehfu! cn»rjp« tition praclioully impoia'ib]4'. 
So far aa the rcvclati ma wo have published enable 
UH to judge, Ihero ii.jw po prospect whatever of 
the cstahliahincnt of mch an organisation. Tbe com- 
biuatiou of the «|uiuiue protluoers appears to bo an 
nhjuct more diftiiuiU to attain than the union of tho 
AustraliHS, tbe abolition of standing armies, <ir the 
completion of ths Channel tunnel, aud it is not 
ixtravftgart to ahj»ert that when the latter scheuies 
si nil h.kvr bccoinft facts of ancient history, the quiniiio 
ptioplu will still bu in dcuht whetbor to look i-ast or 
wuBt for thu master mind ihat ahall consolidate them. 
^Chemist and Jjruygist^ July 25tb. 
A Shokt Bhazii.un C( i-'fee CBni*. — A Washington 
sayR that the latest oBtimntb places the 
Br. ziliau coffro crop for 1890 1)1 , now coming into 
tuiirket, at 2,20(1,000 bags. Notwithstanding the 
hi* h prices tho daily rec^upts do not average over 
B UOO bags. Should the present disorganization of 
labor oonlinue it is believed that the coffre crop 
(or 1891-92, now placed at 8.000.000 or 9,000,0()o 
bags, will not exceed 0,000.000 or 7,000.000 bags,— 
BrinUtreeVst August Xst. 
