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10. Picked leaves should be carried to 

 a covered place, verandah, or shed, and 

 strung up on string, care being taken 

 that no two leaves touch each other. 



11. Drying takes from 19 to 22 days, 

 and it is easy to decide when the leaves 

 are dry from the hardness of the midrib. 



12. When dry the leaves should be 

 taken down and tied into bundles to be 

 fermented, The process of fermenting 

 is too complicated to be described here. 



13. Native grown tobacco can never 

 be expected to improve in quality uutil 

 the use of cattle manure is given up. 

 Cattle manure leaves its impression not 

 only on the plants, but on the cured 

 leaves, and even the manufactured 

 cigars. 



14. Local tobacco growers should 

 give up aiming at the production of 

 large coarse leaves, and be content with 

 smaller and finer ones. If they do this 

 they will be starting upon the right 

 road. 



PERADENIYA EXPERIMENT 

 STATION. 



Minutes of a meeting of the Committee 

 of Agricultural Experiments held at 

 Peradeniya on 10th November, 1910. 



Present :— The Chairmau, the Assis- 

 tant Director, the Entomologist, Messrs. 

 Rosling, Jowitt, Anderson, Golledge, 

 and the Secretarj r . 



The Secretary read the Progress 

 Report since the previous meeting. 

 Resolved : — 



h That Mr, Bamber be asked to pro- 

 duce figures and particulars re- 

 lative to the Tea experiments 

 being carried out on outside 

 Estates. 



2. That the present sheds be patched 

 up temporarily until a definite 

 scheme of dealing with the ac- 

 commodation of the cattle and 

 the proper conservation of their 

 manure is decided on. 



J. A. Holmes, 

 Secretary, C. A. E., Supdt., E. S. P. 



Experiment Station, Peradeniya. 

 15th November, 1910. 



Progress Report on Experiment 

 Station, Peradeniya, prom 8th 

 September to 10th November, 1910. 



Tea,— In the beginning of October 

 owing to the scarcity and coarseness of 

 the flush, it was found necessary to 

 pluck the fish leaf for two rounds with 

 most satisfactory results. 



The Indigofera in Plot 140 has been 

 pulled up at a cost of Rs. 8'25 per acre, 

 the weight of the roots, &c, being 602 

 lbs., making a total with the previous 

 number of cuttings of 9,340 lbs., the 

 whole cost from sowing to pulling being 

 Rs. 21*45 per acre. 



In Plots 147 & 148 the Crotalaria had 

 died out to such an extent that it 

 was not worth while weighing the small 

 amount of root residue ; the yield since 

 sowing was in 147 (cut twice and bent 

 three times) 1668 lbs, cost being Rs. 9/90, 

 and in 148 (cut 4 times) 5750 lbs. at a 

 cost of Rs. 8-25. 



The dadaps in 149 on cutting gave 

 4,160 lbs. 



All supplies have lately been put in 

 baskets and promise to do better than 

 previously. 



Cacao.— On picking the cacao crop at 

 the latter end of September it was found 

 that more pods were diseased (Canker) 

 than otherwise ; since then, however, it 

 has been found possible to complete two 

 rounds of cutting and one of spraying, 

 and there is an excellent crop at present. 

 Unfortunately, however, owing to the 

 drying stjve having more or less coll- 

 apsed, much difficulty is being experi- 

 enced in curing. 



For the first time the Nicaragua 

 variety has been kept separate from the 

 rest and shows a much brighter colour 

 and better break. 



The dadaps in the young cacao have 

 again been cut with the following 

 result :— 



1st Plot ... ... 1832 lbs 



2nd Plot ... ... 1435 ,, 



3rd Plot ... ... 1987 „ 



The plants in the high shaded plot 

 seem the strongest. 



Rubber.— Para. Plot 87 has been 

 forked to a depth of about 9". 



All the trees being experimentally 

 tapped appear sound. A table of statis- 

 tics is appended. 



Nurseries of seed from old Henerat- 

 goda trees and from young trees (5£ 

 yeat>) here, have been sown to compare 

 their respective powers of germination 

 with regard to age. 



Consignments of crepe obtained from 

 the different methods of tappings are 

 being sent to the Imperial Institute for 

 testing purposes. 



Ceara,— The experiment of pricking 

 immediately after peeling the outer 

 bark was tried on two year old trees, 

 the result of which together withthos 

 of other methods are appended.— 



