April i, 1892.] 
tHE Tt^OPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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ing degree in that country. Formerly, our Japanese 
contemporary says, only the coarser otufla were 
manufactured there, the finer ones being impor od 
from abroad, but the necoesary plant having been 
imported both qualities are now manufactured 
in Japan. As an example of the decrease of 
imports from abroad of cotton manufactured goods 
it is pointed out that against the 47 439. (>36 
catties imported in 1889. only 42,810,912 were ini- 
portel in 1889, 31,903,302 in 1890, and 23,000,000 
in the year Just passed. Further than this, the 
trade was very prosperoua la4 year, and the 
Kok/cai says that most of the cotton-spinning 
concerns in Japan will pay a dividend of from 
16 percent to 20 per cent for the year— Irulinn 
Agriculturist. 
Tuk Aqei-Hokticultural Hocisty op Burma. 
— A growing iulerrst (says the Madras Times) seems 
to bo evinced by the general public in the Agri-Horti- 
eultural Society of Burma, which is indicated by the 
frequent references that are made to it in connection 
with improvements in various branches of agriculture. 
The Society was oorapellod last year to abandon the 
site obtained for sn experimental farm at Taikgyi, the 
locality boiug found to be one of the most unhealthy 
on the line of railway. The Society is reported to be 
now endeavouring to get a suitablo plot of land 
within an easy distonce of Bangoon, In 1890-91 
filbert nuts were sent for experimental cultivation 
to Upper Burma, and Liberian coflee plants to 
Sandoway. In the Society’s own gardens experiments 
were tried with Indian mangoes, which were euo- 
oessfully grafted. American and Upper Burma 
Indian corn was grown with varying success. Several 
new varieties of coconuts were imported from the 
Straits Settlements. Special attention is paid by the 
Society to raising good and reliable seed of flowering 
annuals, tor which there is a large demand amongst 
natives of the province. Four hundred young plants 
of the Areoa nut palm were procured from Tnungoo 
and Shwegyin and are thriving in the nurseries. 
During the early part of the year the orchid oollootors 
made succostul trips to the Arakan U<lla and the 
Tenassorim Province ; several thousands of plants 
were brought in and sold looally after the conserva- 
tories had been stocked. In every way the Society is 
improving and gathering strength, whether it bo in 
the number of new members admitted, or in the 
receipts derived from the sale of garden produce. 
The number of visitors to the Society’s gardens and 
museum is also increasing. 
Tna Cocoa Tbadx. — Mr. F. R. Fry, representative 
of the World-renowned J. 8. Fry and Sons, cocoa 
and chocolate manufacturers, is in the colonies 
with the object of extending the trade which the 
old-established firm has built op. On Monday we 
had an opportunity of chatting with Mr. Pry, and 
daring the interview gleaned some information 
about the extent of the great cocoa industry. 
Messrs. Fry and Sons aro the oldest and largest 
bouse in the business, and to their factories in 
Bristol go the products of the great plantations 
of (.eylon, Java, the West Indies, Trinidad, and 
South Ametioa. Oooos, Mr. Fry says, oan te grown 
sucoesetully in any tropical climate, but he thinks 
that it is too hot in this continent for the manur 
faotnre of the article to anything approaching the 
perfection to which it is brought in England. 
Tho cooler olimato of New Zealand and Tasmania 
might answer, but everything depends, ho adds, 
upon the oaring of tho oocoa beans. This is the 
Boopet of Buooess at the start, and afterwards comes 
the rpastingand blending prooeases. Some idea of 
the extent of Messrs. Fry & Sons’ business in 
England may be gained from the statement that 
there are six factories, employing upwards of 3,0Q0 
tuen, boyB| and girls, that the old gaol at Bristol 
is used solely for nailing tho boxes by machinery 
and timber drying for the box-making branch of 
the concern, that not long ago £15,000 was expended 
for refrigerating works, and that four years ago, 
in order to be in time, the firm applied for space 
at the forthcoming Chicago Exhibition. Eight 
years ago they introduced their celebrated brands 
of ■' Concentrated Cocoa,” a perfectly soluble article 
with the oil extraoted. It is interesting to hoar 
the description, and to sec the piotures of the 
various processes of the cocoa and chocolate msk- 
ing, among others the roasting, the grinding of 
pure ohocolate, the manufacture of the extraot, 
cerara-making, fancy-box filling, and the box making, 
down to tho filling of the packets. Tho trade with 
t'ne Australian Colonies has oxlerdcd rapidly of 
recent years, in fact, the taste of oocoa hss been 
cultivated to such an extent that there are now 
but very few houses iu which, at some part of 
the day or other the cocoa is not used as a 
pleasant substitute for tea or ooflee. Mr. Fry 
sees no reason why ooooa cannot be profitably 
grown in the Northern Territory, where it is pro- 
posed to introduce the plant, and then sent to 
the home markets. It is estimated that the yearly 
consumption of oocoa at the present time is upwards 
20,000,000 lb. — S. A. Register (Adelaide), Feb. 16th. 
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