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that such a mixture could be easily prepared and that the flavour 

 is good, and that the mixture possesses a high nutritive value for 

 cattle, pigs and other stock. Many scores of tons of guango pods 

 rot and waste annually in St. Catherine that might be utilised in 

 this way. 



TABLE VI. 



Trial of selected Native Varieties of Cassava, Hope Experimental Station, 1907. 

 Period of growth 12 months. 



THE CEYLON RUBBER EXHIBITION, 1906. 



The following account of the Ceylon Rubber Exhibition has 

 been sent for publication by Dr. J. C. Willis, Director, Royal Bo- 

 tanic Gardens, Ceylon : — 



An extremely successful Exhibition of Rubber has lately been 

 held (September 1 3-27) in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Perade- 

 niya, Ceylon, and marks a distinct stage in the progress of this 

 great new industry, an industry which owes its inception and pro- 

 gress entirely to the forethought and aid of scientific men at the 

 various Botanic Gardens of Kew, Ceylon and Singapore. 



Extensive buildings were erected in the Kandyan (or Sinhalese 

 mountaineer) style of architecture, and were well filled with exhi- 

 bits of raw rubber in its different forms from the plantations of 



