The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon June 1939

Report of the Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the Central Board of Agriculture 377 Minutes of the Forty-fifth Meeting of the Board of Management of the Coconut Research Scheme 387 REVIEW Scientific Horticulture 390 RETURNS Animal Disease Return for the Month ended May 1939 391 Meteorological Report for the Month ended May 1939 392 -J. [...] The chief aim of the British authorities was not the isolation of any of the alkaloids present in the cinchona bark all of which were known to be febrifugal nor the standardization of a refined product cotaining some or all of them in fixed proportions for the purpose of commerce but the provision of a cheap and abundant supply of the bark containing these alkaloids so that a reasonably effici [...] But with the formation of the Kina Bureau in 1913 the Dutch industry revived and the war interrupted the plans for the establishment of large plantations in India. [...] The following appear to be the considerations which may govern this policy : (1) The prospect of finding a place in the world market (2) The provision of cheap quinine or of a cheap and abundant febrifuge other than quinine for the masses (3) Imperial policy of making the Empire independent of foreign supplies (4) The prospect of establishing a remunerative local industry behind a protective wall. [...] The price of the article forms a comparatively small fraction of the cost involved in the administering of quinine to the Miscellaneous Bulletin No.