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-dered, and such alterations made as were considered ne- 
-cessary, the following form was finally adopted :— 
“The Sub-Committee, appointed in October 1868, to 
consider ‘The Manuring Question,’ beg now to come 
forward with an account of their labors; and though the 
result of their enquiries may not be so satisfactory as might 
have been expected, yet they trust that their efforts bave 
not been in vain, and that these preliminary enquiries 
will be the means of drawing attention to so important 
@ subject, and induce those engaged in manuring opera- 
tions, to keep more careful records of their work than 
seems to have been the case hitherto. . 
“Your Sub-Committee issued in October 1868 to the 
-members of Committee, for circulation in their respective 
‘alistricts, a series of Questions bearing on the different 
points on which information was sought. Of these lists 
of questions 152 were circulated, but it is a matter of 
regret that the Sub-Committee have only been favoured 
with 25 answers from the following districts :— ~~ 
« Ambagamuwa 3; Badullal; Dumbara 3; Hantane 4; 
Hewaheta 1; Kadugannawa 1; Kotmale2; Kurunegala 2; 
renee 2; Pussellawa 4; Sabaragamuwa 1; Udapussel- 
awa 1, . 
“The reason for this, your Sul-Committee are led to 
Delieve, arises, not so much from an unwillingness to give 
information, though it is the case in some instances, as 
from inability to give accurate information for want of 
proper records. ay ke 
“That. Manuring operations have been carried:on_ ex- 
tensively for a number of years there is no possible doubt, 
but, from various causes, till very recently no authentic 
xzecords seem to have been kept of the nature of manures 
applied, the cost of same, and relative effects, and the 
Committee are therefore met with difficulties at the outset’ 
in arriving at conclusions for want of sufficient data. 
~The manures generally applied, as collected from thé 
‘veports sent in, seem to be the following :— ; eer 
“ 1, Cattle manure; 2, Pig manure; 3, Poonac and Bones 
(in proportion of 2 to 1 in weight); 4, Bones and Guano : 
5, Pulp; 6, Pulp and Lime ; 7, Cattle manure and. Pulp; 
8, Bones and Pulp; 9, Bones, Pulp and Guano; 10,~Enu- 
reka; 11, Guano, Peruvian, Bolivian, Bird Island. and 
Phospho; 12, Sombreorum; 13, Fish; 14, Ashes; 15; Ani- 
mal Charcoal; 16, Phosphoric Potash; 17, Sal-amimoniac 
and Poonac; 18, Sulphate of Ammonia ; 19, Dissolved Bones 
and Swamp Soil; 20, Cuera; 21, Compost, Leechmdn’s; 22, 
Compcst, Cattle Manure, Bones, Pulp, Coffee Husk and 
Mana Grass; 23, Compost Vegetable matter saturated 
with diluted Sulphate of Ammonia; 24, Compost Poonac 
(1 ewt.), Bone Dust (4 cwt.), Bolivian Guano (4 ewt.); 
25, Compost Cattle manure, Pulp, Mana Grass, and rub- 
bish ; 26, Compost Pulp, Line manure and mud from drains; 
27, Compost Poonac (5-8ths), Bones (2-8ths), Guano (1-8th). 
“The mode of application seems to be to place the 
‘bulky mauures in holes varying from 1} ft.414 ft. in the 
square, and in depth from 6 inches to 18 inches, and about 
to 18 inches trom the stem of the tree. paler 
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