Miscellaneous. 



52 



[January, 1910. 



Gingeli :— 



Indian Sesamum. Ind. Agr., Feb. 1907, 

 p. 44. 



Sesamum in Burmah. do. Jan. 1908, 

 p. 13. 



Ginger : — 



Die Kultur und Bereitung des Ingwer. 

 Mitth. Amani 28, 2. 7. 1904. 



The cultivation of Ginger. "T.A." 



July 1906, p. 80. 

 The curing of Ginger. Agr. News, 



13, 7. 1907, p. 221. "T.A." Sept. 1907, 



p. 200. 



Cultivation and Preparation of 



Jamaica Ginger. W. Ind. Bull. 8. 



264. " T.A." Feb. 1908, p. 161. 

 Memorandum on the cultivation and 



preparation of ginger. " T.A." Aug. 



1909, p. 127. 

 Ginger. Jamaica Bull. Vol. 1. No. 2, 



"T.A." Nov. 1909, p. 425. 



Ginseng :— 



Japanese Ginseng. Chem. & Drug. 

 26. 1. 1907, p. 144. 



Ginseng in Korea. Kew Bull. 1907, 

 p. 71. 



Ginseng. " T.A." Nov. 1905, p. 679. 

 Ginseng in China. Kew Bull. 1902. 



Glycine : - 



The soy bean as a forage crop. U. S. 

 Dept. of Agr, Farmers' Bull. 58. 

 "T.A," Oct, 1908, p. 323. 



Soy beans as food for man. do. do. 

 p. 331. 



Soy bean varieties, do. B. P. I. Bull. 

 98, 1907. 



Soy Beans, oil and Cake. Indian 

 Trade JL, July 1909. " T.A." Sept. 

 p. 207. 



Soy Bean. ibid. " T.A." Oct., p. 295. 



The Soy Bean. Agr. News. VII. 174. 

 Dec. 1908, p. 403. 



AGRICULTURAL BANKS. 



By T. B. Pohath-Kehelpannala. 



The proposal to establish Agricultural 

 Banks should be heartily welcomed by 

 all who are interested in agriculture. 

 Though the suggestion is said to be due 

 primarily to the stagnation in paddy 

 cultivation, it would be impossible to 

 limit the operation of the banks to the 

 encouragement of rice-growing only, 

 especially as improved methods of culti- 

 vation include the rotation of crops. 



Disadvantages to Agriculture. 



The falling off in paddy-cultivation in 

 spite of the high rates that have for 

 some years ruled for imported rice, is 

 due to various causes. Many leading 

 Kands'an families have sold their ances- 

 tral holdings to Europeans and others, 

 often below the real value, owing to 

 their want of funds to cultivate them. 

 It frequently happens that the lands 

 are situated in distant parts, difficult 

 of access, and the owners have consider- 

 ed it more profitable to sell them, in 

 some cases, to devote the proceeds to 

 the purchase of lands nearer home, or to 

 pay off debts, or to defray the costs of 

 some tedious and ill-advised litigation. 

 The poorer members of the community 

 think it hardly worth while to cultivate 

 them with garden products, considering 

 the difficulties occasioned by long dis- 

 tances, of continuous watching to pre- 

 vent trespass and theft, and many have 

 taken up work on tea and cacao estates 

 for daily wages. 



Others who could afford to cultivate 

 them neglected to do so ; the spread of 

 education has resulted in a general 

 yearning for work in Government offices. 

 One 



DISASTROUS RESULT 



in the sale of chena is manifest by the 

 obstruction to paddy cultivation by the 

 washings of silt and debris to the irri- 

 gation channels and fields. Litigation 

 on this point between planters and 

 natives are not uncommon in our law 

 courts. Added to this, the 



SALE 



of chena by the Crown is, in many 

 cases, responsible for the neglect of 

 paddy cultivation. In former days 

 every field had its appurtenant chena 

 lands to provide pasturage for cattle, 

 reepers, and timber for agricultural 

 implements. The purchasers of these 

 lands have planted them up to the very 



THRESHOLDS 



of the villagers ; the paddy cultivator 

 has no longer any space for breeding or 

 even feeding cattle, the supply of fire- 

 wood is almost unprocurable, and the 

 slightest act of trespass by his cattle on 

 •the adjoining estates involves a heavy 

 fine on the unfortunate owner of the 

 cattle. 



The villager has never been in the 

 habit of tethering his cattle, but he 

 allows them to roam about at will, to 

 return home at dusk. Among the many 

 subjects connected with paddy culti- 

 vation, the establishment of village 

 grazing grounds and the introduction of 

 new and useful fodder plants would 



