For Tropical Agriculturists

Two new handbooks in the Oxford Tropical Handbooks series deal with beekeeping and tea manufacture and should be of extreme in terest to agriculturalists in the South Pacific.

ALTHOUGH commercial beekeeping has been regarded as something for temperate climates, considerable success has been achieved by apiarists in places like Fiji and East Africa. Beekeeping by Dr.

Francis G. Smith, who until recently was head of the Beekeeping Division of the Tanganyika Forest Dept., sets out in plain words just how to go about the business of producing honey, and clean, commercially valuable beeswax.

At present New Guinea is the sole possessor in the South Pacific of a tea factory (at Garaina, Morobe). A r G a ‘ has also been grown in the Northern District of Papua. By and large, there

is no great trick to growing tea. The proof of its excellence is in the manu facture into the black tea of com merce.

Tea Manufacture by C. R. Harler considers every aspect of tea produc tion from the plucking of the tradi tional two leaves and a bud to pack ing and packaging of the finished pro duct. He covers the withering, fer menting and rolling processes, the layout, machinery and management of a modern tea factory and the drying, gradin „® f nd e " di " g a s Ps clal ot and “°*f r °" f * e chemistry and phar . - well illustrated with "" M=nm E .

Published by the Oxford University Press. 29/9 ea.)