April, 1910.] 



357 



Miscellaneous. 



Owing to the fact that, in order to 

 cultivate by machinery, the ten acres of 

 young nuts have been left undrained, 

 many of the holes were completely filled 

 in by wash on February 19th, and in con- 

 sequence about seventy-seven supplies 

 are now required. 



Two experiments in oil expression 

 have been tried, one from freshly-picked 

 nuts and the other from nuts which had 

 been stored for one month, with the 

 following results :— 



Fresh nuts. 



Nuts ... 5 cwts 



Copia ... 160 lbs. 



Oil ... 83 „ 



Poonac... 55 ,, 



Old nuts, 

 5 cwt. 1 qr. 23 

 183£ lbs. 

 102* „ 



65 J „ 



Rubber (Para).— The majority of the 

 para trees are now getting their young 

 leaves, although a few have still to lose 

 their old ones ; some of the trees are also 

 seeding. 



Tapping has been stopped as the yields 

 did not justify its continuation, but will 

 be again resumed as soon as the trees 

 have attained their full foliage. 



Monthly measurements have been 

 made of the girths, the variation from 

 one month to another in most cases 

 being inappreciable. 



Some slight damage has been caused 

 to those trees, which were thumb-nail 

 pruned, by wind — one tree having been 

 broken off about 7 feet from the ground 

 and a few others splitting, thus losing 

 branches, 



Some 250 selected seed were obtained 

 from Kondesalle, and so far about 62 

 have germinated. 



Plots 77-82 have been drained. 



Obara. — Ceara is now wintering and 

 tapping has been stopped. A.n order for 

 100,000 selected seed having been 

 received, those trees which promised to 

 give less than 1 lb. of dry rubber per 

 annum have all been cut out. 



Seeds of good yielding varieties from 

 Mr. Gaddum, Gampola, and f rom Tra van- 

 core have been planted out. 



A good deal of interest is being shown 

 by planters in the perpendicular method 

 of tapping. 



Heptaphylla.— Five hundred seeds 

 have been planted in nurseries. 



Manihot have again suffered from 

 wind, except in the 6x6 plot and in plot 

 25 where the branches were topped. 



Castilloa are now wintering, plot 

 97 has been tapped with a full spiral cut, 

 the yields on the first tapping being 

 good, but subsequent tappings unsatis- 

 factory. 



Plots 125-129 have been drained. 



FUNTDMIA AND PlAUHYENSIS.— These 



plots have been drained. 



Paddy.— The paddy which was some- 

 what layered by rain and pig has been 

 cut, the weights were : - 



Transplanted. Sown Broadcast. 



Manured. Ununuiured. Manured. Unmanured. 



Bad ly 25£ bush. lag bush, 15$ busb. 12g bush. 



Straw 1,327 lb. 1,368 lb. 859 lb. 1,056 lb. 



Oil Grasses.— The still has been 

 working from time to time and a ship- 

 ment of two dozen bottles lemon grass oil 

 will shortly be made ; the present price 

 of the oil is 8d. per oz. 



214 lbs. Lena Batu Pengiri gave 332 ccs. 

 of oil. A large plot of Maha Pengiri has 

 been planted out and a sufficient amount 

 of Cymbopogon martini has grown to 

 plant a l-100ch acre bed. 



Cymbopogon confertifolius Was cut 

 and weighed 202 lb. but was insufficiently 

 distilled. 



Fruits. —Some Kew and Mauritius 

 pines have been planted. 



The Plantains have beeu supplied and 

 drained. 



Nurseries. — Para, heptaphylla, and 

 Ceara seeds have been sown, also 

 Dumbara tobacco and Sesbania aculeata, 

 and green manure from India. 



Green Manure.— Tephrosia candida 

 cut and mulched and weighed 382 lb, => 

 33,200 lb per acre ; it is again sprouting 

 satisfactorily. 



Ipomea cut weighed 56 lbs. 



Crotalaria incana which had been 

 attacked by Necrosperma vasinfecta 

 was dug up and thrown away, a new 

 bed being planted in a different site, a 

 non-leguminous plant being put in its 

 original bed. 



A bed of Leuccena glauca, a legu- 

 minous shade tree largely used by coffee 

 planters in Java, has been sown. 



Mimosa pudica was cut and mulched, 

 and weighed 65 lb. 



Wash Plots.— Loss from April, 1909, to 

 March, 1910 :- 



Desmudium 

 Mixed Crotalaria 

 Dadap 



Bare weeded 

 Crotalaria incana, 



605f Albizzia 3.631J 



1,4)1 Crotalaria across 



5,81".l slope 1,395 



5,8s8i Deep forking 5,168 



2,6655 Ipomea 2,235 



Stumps.— About forty large stumps 

 have been removed with the help of the 

 extractor. 



Visitors.— 132 visitors, planters and 

 otherwise, have been conducted around 

 the Station. 



