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and Co-operation. 



20. Each day, after the close of busi- 

 ness with the public, all the accounts of 

 the bank shall be posted and balanced. 



Miscellaneous. 



21. The Insular Auditor has no super- 

 vision over the accounts of the bank 

 except in so far as may be necessary to 

 obtain information concerning the pro- 

 vincial treasurer's cash accountability as 

 provincial treasurer. 



22. Demand drafts and telegraphic 

 transfers will not be sold by the Bank 

 or any of its agencies ; but this business 

 will continue to be done by the pro- 

 vincial treasurers as heretofore, under 

 Act No. 1636. (See regulation No. 13). 



23. No funds will be received on in- 

 terest-bearing time-deposit until the 

 agency is authorized to do so by the 

 Manager, 



24. All deposits and withdrawals made 

 by a. depositor during a day should be 

 entered in one sum on the proper side of 

 the cash book at the close of business 

 each day, and then posted to the de- 

 positor's account in the ledger. 



25. No information concerning a de- 

 positor's transactions with the bank 

 shall be furnished to any person by any 

 officer or employee thereof ; and any 

 officer or employee of the bank violating 

 this regulation shall be removed from 

 the service. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



THE SAIDAPETH AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE AND FARM. 



By C. Benson, m.r.a.c, 

 Late Deputy Director of Agriculture, 

 Madras. 



(From the Agricultural Journal of 

 India, Vol. IV., Pt. IV., October 1909.) 



This Institution has now, after a 

 chequered existence of over forty years, 

 been closed. Its history is connected 

 with the work of the Agricultural De- 

 pirtment of Madras and the earlier 

 efforts of Government towards Agri- 

 cultural improvement, Some account 

 of its early days may, therefore, not 

 be without interest. Its work was then 

 alluded to as typical of what should 

 be done in India in the cause of agri- 

 cultural advancement, and visitors came 

 from all parts of India to consult its 

 Superintendent, Mr. W. R, Robertson, 

 M.R.A.C The history of this farm will 

 afford enlightenment on various points 

 connected with the correct establish- 

 ment of Government farms. 



In 1863 the then Governor, Sir William 

 Dennison, drew attention to the prac- 

 tice of cropping without rotation, to 

 deficient manuring, to the extensive use 

 of cattle manure as fuel and to defective 

 implements and cattle. He suggested 

 the importation of improved agricul- 

 tural implements, and accordingly a 

 steam plough, a variety of smaller 

 ploughs, harrows, cultivators, seed-drills, 

 horse-hoes, threshing machines, win- 



nowers, chaff-cutters, waterlifts, etc., 

 were obtained from England. 



About this time the Collector of Madras 

 (Chingleput) started a "Model Farm" 

 of about 350 acres at Saidapeth which 

 had recently become Government pro- 

 perty, " partly with a view to demon- 

 strate the value of the new implements 

 to the satisfaction of the ryot and to 

 remove native doubts as to the advant- 

 ages derivable from them, partly to 

 test various manures, partly to exhibit 

 an improved system of agriculture." 

 These views were endorsed by the then 

 Secretary of State, who expressed a 

 hope for ''a continuance of this interest 

 in a question so closely allied to the 

 welfare of the people." 



The management of the farm was 

 first entrusted to a Committee of gentle- 

 men interested in the work who placed 

 a Superintendent in charge on Rs. 75 

 a month. The post of Superintendent 

 changed hands four times in the first 

 two years, and as this was highly un- 

 satisfactory, the Committee decided to 

 get from England on a salary of Rs. 200 

 a month "a highly educated farmer, 

 acquainted with agricultural chemistry 

 and machinery and possessed of a 

 thorough practical knowledge of all 

 farming operations, and the manage- 

 ment of cattle, sheep, etc." But the man 

 obtained turned out " to be an ordinary 

 farmer, without any scientific education, 

 wedded to his own ideas and opinions, 

 and carried on the business of the farm 

 just as he thought proper, with very 

 little regard to the instructions given 

 him." After eleven months' trial, the 

 Managing Committee found him unfit 



