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ried out at Wye Agricultural College. We should be interested 

 to know how similar experiments carried out with poonac fresh 

 from the press, if fed to cattle on the coconut estate itself, would 

 compare with above. Speaking of this reminds us that cream 

 separators are now seen working in many big cities in India. 

 They make a large quantity of separated milk available for use. 

 Fuller particulars of the above will be found in the January 

 Journal of the Agricultural Institute, Pusa, India. 



According to the Indian Trade Journal, Mr. Ledgard, president 

 of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, in addressing the members 

 at their annual meeting, referred to wool and sheep-breeding, 

 pointing out that prices for wool had been advancing all over the 

 world continuously since 1908, and India had kept pace with the 

 advance, and the period of dear wool was not likely to be ended. 

 The Indian government had under consideration the necessity of 

 endeavoring to improve the breed of sheep on the plains of these 

 provinces, and some rams were imported from a part of Australia 

 the climatic conditions of which closely resembled those of this 

 part of India. Breeding operations were going on, and an im- 

 provement in carcases and wool was fully anticipated. 



Experiments show that, so far as soya and cotton cake are 

 concerned when feeding dairy cows in England, the one can 

 be safely used as a substitute in a ration for the other. Although 

 the results obtained were nearly equal for the two cakes, yet what 

 slight advantage there was showed that soya cake was slightly 

 better for milch cows than decorticated cotton cake, which is 

 slightly richer in oil, while the soya cake is slightly richer in flesh 

 producers. 



ARE DRY-FARMING METHODS AN ADVANTAGE IN 

 THE TROPICS f 



(Tropical Life for April.) 



The manual on "Dry Farming: a System of Agriculture for 

 Countries under a Low Rainfall," published by Dr. John A. Widt- 

 soe, A. M., Ph.D., president of the Agricultural College of Utah, 

 came to hand at much about the same time as we received an 

 issue of the Times of Ceylon (February 4), with two most inter- 

 esting articles on the possibilities of ''Dry Zone Cultivation in 

 Ceylon,'" the first being the report of a paper read by Dr. H. M. 

 Fernando before the Ceylon Agricultural Society on the subject, 

 issue of the Times of Ceylon (February 4), with two most inter- 

 esting articles on the possibilities of "Dry Zone Cultivation in 

 Ceylon," the first being the report of a paper read by Dr. H. M. 

 Fernando before the Ceylon Agricultural Society on the subject, 

 and the second a series of paragraphs by the paper itself dealing 

 with various products that might be cultivated by dry-farming 

 methods. Both the book and these articles should be carefully 



