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AUGUST, 1912. 



tropical Agriculturist 



. [IVJagazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society.] 



With a Supplement. 



CONTENTS 



Pagh. 

 97 



101-105 

 103 



Two Ceylon Problems 

 Synthetic Rub er 



Fungoid Diseases of Cultivated Plants 



Use of Explosives in Agriculture ... .... 107 



Fertility of the Soil ... ... ... 108 



Progress of Horticultural Science ... ... 108 



Bee Warfare ... ... ... 110 



Plantation Vs. Wild Rubber ... ... 111 



Rubber Production considered in relation to Health 111 

 Exhibits from the All-Ceylon Exhibition ... 112 



Education in Rural Schools ... ... 115 



Tussore Silk Industry in Dsccan ... .. 117 



Paddy Cultivation in Geylon : by E. Elliott ... 118 



Yellow Tobacco and Turkish Tobacco .- 1 25 



Ceylon Agricultural Society : Minutes of Annual Meeting 127 

 Mosaic Disease of Tobacco ... ... 127 



University Education for the Tropics and Colonies 1 28 

 Problem of Increased Prices ... ... 130 



C.A.S. Report and Accounts for 191 1-1912 ... 131 

 Properties and Manufacture of Rubber 140 

 Rice Industry of Burma ... ••• 140 



History of Garden Implements ... ... 141 



Nitrates in the Soil ... ... ... 144 



Funtumia Rubber ... ... ... 145 



Rice in Travancore ... .« ... 146 



Seed Production ... ... ... 147 



Mr. Herbert Wright on Rubber ... 149 

 Plantation Rub jer and Preparation.. ... 150 



Cotton in the Colonies ... ... ■■■ 150 



American Upland Cotton ... ... ... 152 



Effects of Different Proportions of Lime and 



Magnesia in some Soils ... 1 63 

 Cacao Cultivation (No. XXVIIJ ... ... 164 



Miscellaneous. — Solomon Islands "Guada" Bean as a 

 Vegetable, 103 ; Protection of Indian Cattle, 109 ; Children's 

 Gardens, 109; American Agricultural Colleges, 109; Tobacco 

 in Siam, 112; Poultry Breeds aud Averages, 115; Cotton 

 Forecasts, 115; The Giant Orchid, 130; World's best known 

 fruit: The Banana, 139 ; Water Lifting, 145 ; Timber Industry 

 of the Dutch Netherlands, 161 ; Agriculture in the Leeward 

 Islands, 16 L ; Rubber in Brazil, 164 

 Correspondence. — Sinhalese Labour on Estates, 102 ; Some 



Facts aDout Camphor, 166 

 Supplement 



Colombo : 

 A. M. & J. FERGUSON. 



