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THE TROPICAL AQRIOULTURI8T, 
[November 2, 1891 
but I am unable to divulge the writer's name or 
to tell you what he says tor thia would have been 
wasting the time of the meeting. 
1 quite agree that the letter was not intended 
tor publication; but it has not been published, and 
had only been seen by or read to the men who 
were asked to give a verdict on the evidence con- 
tained in the letter. This verdict seems to have 
bean precisely the one asked (or and expected by 
Ur. Butehison, but he seems to have been ren- 
dered nervous by the very measure o( success 
wbiah he had achieved, even as we now see our 
Tea Fund Committee alarmed at having secured 
the oonviction ol those prosecuted (or fraudulent 
description, and to have tried to soften things 
down a bit, but whether he (UDConsoiously) 
encouraged in any way or not your London corres- 
pondent's belief in the private nature of bis letter 
te me I cannot say. Apart from this question, 
which I hope these lines will settle, the matter 
seems very simple. The statements on which the 
Tea Fund Committee acted were either correct 
(and I myself firmly believe they were), in which 
case that body was fully justified in the course 
taken ; or they were incorrect, in which case — 
well 1 'll let the London Association pcttle thia, and 
remain, — yours obediently, HENRY WHITHAM. 
COFFEE AND PEPPER EXPORT FROM THE 
WEST COAST OF INDIA.. 
Tellicherry, Oot. 2od. 
Deab Sib,— A long with this we have the pli aecre 
to band you our aonnal statement of exports of ootfee 
and pepper from the West Coast for the year ending 
30th June 1891. 
Oorrea. — Our gloomy anticipations of the past crop 
were folly confirmed by results, the expott showiog 
a decrease of H3,585 cicl. Plantation ooffee and S0,i5l) 
ewl. Native ootiise or 09,04^ mot. in all as compared 
to season 1888-89 when the smallest crop was shipped 
from the West Coast since wo commenced to keep 
these statistics in 1879-80 ; so the past season is a 
record one in its most disappointing sense. The 
largest quantity of plantation ooffee was shipped from 
the northern port of Mangalore which is the ontlet 
on the coast of Mysore and North Coorg crops, and 
as usual the bulk of the native coffee was attracted 
to TeUiohetry, but the exports from these two ports 
aannot be taken as a fair criterion of the actual 
crops of ooffee from Mysore snd Coorg, as a portion 
cured at Bangalore and Hunsur is eveutually shipped 
from Madras. The Calicut aud Beypore exports 
include the crops from the Neilghorries cured at 
Coimbatore. Fortunately good prices prevailed in 
all markets. 
We ate glad to bo ablo to report that prospeds of 
coming crop are much more encouraging especially in 
tbs northern dUttiots of Mysore and Coorg where owing 
to shade, leaf disease is not viroleut. A considerable 
quantity of land is being opened up in Mysore and 
seeing that nearly all the older properties iii that 
district which for somo years past have been under- 
going a state of transition from the old “ Chick ” 
plant to that of the “Coorg" typo are almost en- 
tirely planted up with the latter, we have every right 
to expect bigger crops from that district at least. 
Pefpeh. — A lthough the quantity shipped of this 
article from Tellicherry was considerable, total exports 
from coast were less than last year, and prices are 
comparatively speaking so low, that it is doubtful if 
the mcreaseu acreage of cultivation which has been 
a charaoteristio of the past few years will be main- 
tained. 
It is hard to obtain reliable information in regard 
to the crop now on the vinos, but from what wo can 
gather it will bo an average one.— Yours faithfully, 
p.piv. ALSTON, LOW & Co., 
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nauore I'cpiier. For MarseilleSf oOO cwt. Canaaiioro Popper, 
For Bordeaux, 200 cwt. Cannanorc Plantation Ooffee. For 
Aneona, 326 cwP. Tellichcnw Popper For Venice, 302, cwt. 
Canimnore Native Coffee. For Messina, 08 cwt. Tellicherry 
Pepper. For Bremen, 55 cwt. Calicut Native Coffee, For 
Turkish, Afiicaii and Ai*ab Port« 1,125 cwt. Cannanore Pep- 
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