July, 1910.] 



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Education. 



and methods of treatment. Courses will 

 commence in October and January. 



(2) Poultry Management.— This will be 

 a three months' course and will include 

 instruction from the second Imperial 

 Entomologist in the treatment of the 

 insect-pests of poultry. Courses will 

 commence in October and January. 



(3) Dairying — This is intended to be a 

 complete course, extending over six 

 months, in up-to-date dairying. 



(4) Tillage. Improvements and Agri- 

 cultural Machinery— Training will be 

 given in the principles of construction 

 and in the handling of the common 

 Indian aud European tillage implements 

 and agricultural machinery, including 

 ploughs, drills, cultivators, water-lifts, 

 steam engines, oil-engines, etc. Arrange- 

 ments have been made for a complete 

 collection at Pusa of all useful indigenous 

 agricultural machinery, implements and 

 tools. The course will occupy three 

 months, and will commence in October or 

 January. 



Section of Economic Botany. 



(5) Fruit-Gr owing.— The course will 

 be an eight months' one and will deal 

 with : — 



(a) The general management of a fruit 

 graden, including choice of site, laying 

 out, draining and planting, the choice of 

 varieties, irrigation, cultivation and 

 manuring. 



(b) . Special processes such as budding, 

 grafting, layering, pruning and root- 

 pruning, weathering. 



(c) Disposal of fruit, including pick- 

 ing, grading, packing and marketing. 



(d) Evaporating, drying and preserv- 

 ing. The course will begin each year on 

 the 1st of October and will last till the 

 end of May, 



Section of Entomology. 



(6) Eri-Silk as a Cottage Industry.— 

 The course will occupy about three 

 months, and will commence in October 

 and January. It includes rearing and 

 spinning, If dyeing and weaving are 

 to be learnt, three months would be 

 required, 



(7) Lac Cultivation as an Adjunct to 

 ordinary Agriculture. — The training can 

 be given only from May 5th to June 15th 

 or September 20th to October 20th. 

 These dates vary a little according to 

 the season, as lac does not always come 

 out regularly. The training includes 

 pruning and handling of trees, inocula- 

 tion of lac, harvesting, scraping and 

 washing. It covers the whole industry 

 to the production of seed lac and is 

 exclusive of the production of shellac. 



(8) Mulberry Silk Culture. —The course 

 would include rearing selection of disease- 

 free eggs, reeling and the utilisation of 

 waste cocoons. Instruction would also 

 be given in the varieties of silk-worm. 

 Silk-twisting (spinning) and dyeing with 

 the simpler forms of weaving could be 

 taught. The course woidd occupy six 

 months if it ended at the reeling, nine 

 months if it included twisting, dyeing 

 and weaviug of simpler fabrics, The 

 training would cover only the ordinary 

 existing methods, nob improved methods 

 or reeling of the more complex forms of 

 weaving. The course will commence on 

 June 15th each year. 



15th September, 1909, 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



CEYLON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Minutes of Annual General 

 Meeting, June 8th, 1910. 

 Minutes of Annual General Meeting of 

 the Ceylon Agricultural Society held at 

 the Council Chamber at 12 noon on 

 Wednesday, June8th, 1910. 



His Excellency the Governor presided. 



The others present were :— The Hon'ble 

 Messrs. Crawford, C.M.G., Acting Colo- 

 nial Secretary ; W. H. Jackson, Acting 

 Controller of Revenue ; S. C. Obeye- 

 sekere, P. Arunachalam, C. T. P. Vigors, 

 Drs. J. C. Willis and H. M. Fernando, 

 Messrs. R. B. Strickland, P. D. Warren, 

 G, W. Sturgeee, E. E. Green, Alex. 



Bruce, W. D. Gibbon, Tudor Rajapakse, 

 James Peiris, G. Harbord, Fraucis L. 

 Daniel, W. A. de Silva, E. Cowan, 

 A. P. Goonatilleka, and C Drieberg 

 (Secretary). 



Before the business of the day was 

 taken up, H.E. the President moved 

 a vote of condolence on the death of 

 His Majesty King Edward VII, 



The minutes of the last general meet- 

 ing held on 8th June, 1909, were read 

 and confirmed. 



The Secretary's Annual Report, which 

 was previously circulated, was adopted 

 on the motion of Mr. Arunachalam, 

 seconded by Dr. Fernando. 



