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Miscellaneous. 



in the agricultural movement must be 

 secured by insisting upon the principle 

 of self-help. If you want to ruin a man, 

 body and spirit — to take the spring from 

 his muscles and the stimulus of necessity 

 from his mind— give him something for 

 nothing. A Co-operative Loan Bank is 

 creative, a Government Loan Bank is an 

 object for predatory attack. The one 

 stimulates prevision, industry and sense 

 of responsibility, the other induces ex- 

 travagance and carelessness ; for it may 

 be broadly asserted that no Eastern 

 peasantry, probably no peasantry, would 

 regard a Government loan in the same 

 light as an advance made by his neigh- 

 bours and co-partners, who will have no 

 nonsense in the matter of repayment. 

 The Agricultural Society is being 



WORKED WITHOUT EXPENSE TO THE 

 PUBLIC REVENUE 



save the modest grant of £2,000 made 

 annually to it. 1 regard it as one of 

 the most hopeful factors in the future 

 progress of Ceylon. 



LITERATURE OF ECONOMIC 

 BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE. 

 By J. C. Willis. 



Pomegranate. — Pomegranate. Jamaica 

 Bull. 1900, p. 106. 

 Ewers on alkaloids of bark. Just's 

 Jahresb. 27, 1899, II, p. 19. 



Potato.— Potato diseases of India. Agr, 

 Ledger Pest Series. 

 The preparation and use of dried 

 potato. Imp. Inst. Bull. I. 2, p. 77, 

 1903. 



Degeneration in potatoes. Kew 

 Bull. 1907. 



Prickly Pear. — The uses of the prickly 

 pear. Ind. Gard. 24 May, 1900, p. 340. 

 Analyses of prickly pear. Agr. Gaz. 



N. 8. W. XI. 1900, p. 671. 

 The use of prickly pear as fodder. 

 Bull. 4 Centr. Agr. Comm. Madras. 



PsopJiocarpus. — Goa beans in India. Agr. 



Ledger. V, P. Series 96, 1906. 

 Manila bean in Jamaica. Jam. Bull. 



May 1907 p. 89. 

 Psophocarpus tetragonolobus. " T.A." 



Aug. 1907, p. 132. 

 Pterocarpus. — P. tinctotius Welw. Tro- 



peiipfi. July 1899, p. 340. 

 P. Marsupium. Agr. Ledger Med. 



Series, 15. 



Pulses.— The Cultivation of pulses in the 

 Assam valley, Agr. Ledger V. P. 

 Series, 74. 



Quillaja.— Quillaja and its uses. Ind. 

 Gard. Jan. 1904, p. 11. 



Rafia.— Rafia fibre in Madagascar. " T.A.' 



July 1901, p. 59. 

 Rafia fibre in Madagascar, Ind. Agri. 



May, 1904. 

 Der helle und der dunkle Rafia-bast 



von Madagaskar. Sadebeck. Engl. 



Bot. Jb. 26, p. 369. 

 Rafhavezel. Ind. Merc. Dec, 1905, p. 



896. 



Le Rafia. Bull. Jard. Col. 1905. 



Die Raphiapalmen und ihre Verwen- 



dung. Der Pflanzer. Aug. 1907, 



p. 161. 



Rattan. — Rattan industry of Rheims. 



Kew Bull. 1899, p. 200. 

 Rotan. Preyer in Tropeiipfianzer, 6, 



1902, p. 12. 

 Rattans. Ridley in Str. Bull. II. 1903, 



p. 129, 157. 



Rauivolfia.—R- serpentina. Benth. Ind. 

 Merc. June 1900, p. 383. 



RECENT ARTICLES IN THE 

 LITERATURE. 



Under this head we propose to give 

 from time to time the titles and places 

 of articles in the literature of Economic 

 Botany that have lately appeared. 

 Anyone interested can consult these in 

 the library at Peradeniya. — Ed. 



The tuna as food for man.— U.S. Dept. 

 Agr. Bureau Plant Industry, Bull. 116. 

 1907. 



Note sur le Haricot de Birmanie. (Pso- 

 phocarpus tetragonolobus)— Bull. Jard. 

 Colon. 7, 1907, p. 429. 



Tobacco growing in the Philippines.— 

 Bureau of Agric. Manila, Farmer's Bull. 

 15. 1907. 



Jute experiments, in Bengal. -Indian 

 Agriculturist XXXHI, Dec. 1901 p. 359. 



INDIAN AGRICULTURE. 

 By Henry Staveley Lawrence, i.c.s., 

 Director of Agriculture, Bombay. 

 [Paper read before the Indian Section 

 of the Society of Arts on Thursday, 

 January 16th, 1908.] 



There is scarcely any subject, even in 

 the wide field that India presents for 

 controversial treatment, on Avhich you 

 will find so much divergency of opinion 

 and such extreme contradiction of 

 statement as on the subject of Indian 

 Agriculture. The excellent Mountstuart 

 Elphinstone, in the standard history 

 which he published some seventy years 

 ago, wrote :— " The nature of the soil and 

 climate makes agriculture a simple art," 



