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TMC TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[JUNt 1, 1892. 
■Iwaya have t in the mind honest Sanoho'a 
eolation th at there is a remedy for everything 
but death, so by dint of importuning the Ooveroment 
of Travanoore, harassing the Besident and petition- 
ing the Governor in Counoil, and out of Council 
the planters have at last the satisfaction of knowing 
that a cart toad has been siootioned, funds 
provided by the Travancore Government, and that 
in a short space of time, carts may come rolling 
up with tioo and tea box fixings and rolling down 
with wealth “beyond the dreams of avarice." 
This oart road, which will come out into the 
Coimbatore plains some 20 miles south of 
Udamalapeta, which again is 40 miles from the 
nearest railway station, will immensely improve 
tbb prospeets of the planters and should lead to 
a very considerable increase in the number of 
properties opened out in these hill s. 
There is no other place in India o - Ceylon where 
such facilities exist for the acqu etion of planting 
land. The Bireotora of the florth Travancore 
Land, Planting and Agriouliural Society seem to 
have profited by all the dinning and dunning regard- 
ing easy purchase of land which have been in all 
the newspapers for ever so many years. I learn 
that a man on the look out for land can go up 
to Devaoolum, select bis block, have his applica- 
tion registered, pay down his money and take up 
posaeseion within as short a time as suits bis 
convenience. There is no bother about stamped 
application, or waiting till Collector Sahib has had 
the land inspected. The Agent has only to see 
that no one else claims the block, and our 
eager planter can become master of bis acres, and 
put down his nurseries, and fell his forest and 
build hiB preliminary huts — all in the rub of Alad. 
din’s lamp. If he ventures in cinchona — and a 
wonderfu.ly cheap and profiiable venture that same 
IB, notwithstanding low prices — there are estates 
all round him where he can decide on the sort 
best suited to hie bit of land, and purchase seed 
or plants as may please him. If he goes for coffee, 
he can have his pick of thousands of acres of 
virgin forest all at B15 to B25 an acre. Tea is 
in the same category. ’Tis extraordinary to see 
the output of lea at so high an elevation. Five 
hundred pounds of made tea to the acre off four 
or five years bunches, and at an elevation of 5,000 
feet too 1 However, until the road is fioisbed, the 
best way for the new man is to go to Ammanaya- 
kanore, on the South India Bailway, thence by 
bullock transit to Bodinaiknore, whence a bridle 
path leads to the Land Agent's bungalow at Bovs, 
oolum. There are, as 1 say, great quantities of 
forest land at an elevation of 6,000 feet available 
for tea and coffee, but I must guard your readers 
from supposing that there is very much forest 
suited lor cinchona above 6,000 feet. Bo doubt a 
few thooBand acres till remain, but it is being 
rapidly absorbed by planters, for, in point of fact 
there is now no place either in India or in Ceylon 
where such land is to be got. Pleasure and profit 
attend a settler in these altitudes, where the delicious 
climate, pure water and healthy life really make 
life worth living; where a man can rear bis 
estate and rear bis family and make unto himself 
a home to last for hie life and for his son’s 
lives ; where ho can grow cinchona and tea, and 
make 60 per cent, on his capital ; whore he can 
teach his boys to pull the ibex by the beard, 
and adorn the walls of his bungalow with tusks 
wnd home, and where his girls lose not there roses, 
Jtor hia wife pine away with fever and longing 
•lot the nbflcnt faces— for what shall it profit a 
•man if he gain the whole world and lose his own 
health, and what can a man give in exchange 
lot his health I— . 1 /. Hail, April 8th. 
NAGAMALLY TEA COMPANY, LIMITED. 
(TRAVANCOBE.) 
In Bubmilting tbe report and accounts for the second 
year of the Compnny'e working, the Bireotora congra- 
tulate the ebareholdcrs on tbe results provioir better 
than were anticipated. 
• ’'ho last Annual Keport was issued there were 
m all 367 acres under cultivation, of whioh 120 acres 
are now jielding tea, and a small field of some 7 acres 
111 coffee and epioes ; since then about 220 acres of 
forest have been felled and are now being cl ared 
lor planting with tea, and the intention is to go steadily 
’’“ extending tbe area under this cultivation. 
The estimate of tea for past year was 60,000 lb. and 
despatched from the estate an-ountod to 
OdS.UoU lb. 
The coffee crop for 1891 proved a very short one 
compared with previous year, being only 9 ewt. .3 qrs. 
17 lb. ^ 
The npioes harvested amounted to 649 lb against 137 
Id lu 1890. 
The estimate of tea for 1892 is 80,000 lb and may 
probably be exceeded, end tfa« time ben now arrived 
lor tbe Company to provide itself with a parmaneBt 
laotory and with efficient Machinery. Plans and esti- 
mates for these art now being prepared and materials 
collected for an early commencement of the work. 
hoped, in addition to improved msnulactnre of 
the Company’s tea, that they will seoure an extension 
of the maanfaeture of tea for neighbours, which it 
will bo seen from a credit item in the crop account 
IS not unprofitable. 
The amount at credit of profit and loss account 
. - 41494 12 6 
Out of which the Birectors propose to 
pay a BiviJend for tbe year at the rate of 5 per 
cent, pur annum, absorbing 442 2 4 
Leaving a balance to be carried forward 
... £52 10 2 
Of tbe second issue of 1,000 shares, up to date 325 
have been allotted, and the balanoe of 675 shares will 
beplaoed as opportui ity offers. 
The Board desire here to express their satisfaction 
with the condnot of the Company’s affairs by their 
Local Manager, Mr. F. W. Bennett. 
Balanob SiiEBT to Beoember 31st 1891 
£ a d Tad 
To Capital Authorised— 4,000 
Shares of £5 each 20,000 0 0 
To Capital Issued -1,100 Ven- 
dors’ Shares £i each, fully 
paid 6,800 0 0 
840 Shares of £& each, on 
which ilS lOs has been 
called up 3,940 0 0 
325 .shares of jEO each, on 
which £2 has been called 
up 660 0 0 
, 9,390 0 0 
i«M C.all in atrear (since 
paid; 60 0 0 
To Bills Payable J S 
To Sundry Creditors ifla 12 5 
To i^robt and Loss Account — 
Net Profit at 31 Decern* 
399 5 4 
less Dividend paid 339 3 6 
77 1 10 
Nett Profit to Slst^Deoem- 
ter 1891 417 jq h 
494 12 ^ 
^ ifiii,604 4 n 
^ Cr, £ 8 d £ 8 d 
By Caldoorty Estate- 
Amount au per last Ac- 
count .. 7,708 14 6 
Cxpouditure daring year 
developing New Clear- 
ings 1,60-1 14 
3,373 8 1 
