and Magazine of the Ceylon Agt icultural Society, 



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THE MYSORE EXHIBITION. 



This Year's Prospectus : Appeal to the 

 Ceylon Agricultural Societies. 



With the sanction of the Government of H. H. 

 the Maharajah of Mysore, the Gcmmittee of the 

 Mysore Dusserah Industrial and Agricultural 

 Exhibition has issued a prospectus in connec- 

 tion with the Exhibition of 1908. This year the 

 Exhibition will commence on Wednesday, the 

 30th September, and close on 14th October. The 

 Cattle Show will begin on Tuesday, the 6th 

 October, and close on Thursday, the 8th. The 

 Committee states that from the experience of 

 last year it may be observed that the Show 

 offers a good opportunity for people desirous of 

 purchasing good specimens of Mysore cattle. 



The primary aim of the Committee is to im- 

 part to the Exhibition an educative character 

 and to bring together articles, machinery, and 

 processes, the use of which it is desirable to 

 bring to the notice of the ryot, the artisan and 

 the manufacturer, by actual demonstration. But 

 as the Exhibition of solitary samples may not 

 afford sufficient information and may not be 

 attractive to the visiting public, articles intended 

 for sale will also be admitted. Articles on a 

 large scale sent merely for sale will have 

 to be kept in separate stalls and under the 

 charge of the exhibitors or their agents. There 

 is no objection to the sale of samples, but 

 they will not be allowed to be removed from 

 the Exhibition grounds till the termination 

 of the Show. Articles admitted for purposes 

 of sale alone may be removed after purchase, 

 but no article will be allowed to leave the 

 Exhibition grounds without a gate pass. 



Lectures will be delivered by competent per- 

 sons in English and Kanarese on subjects 

 connected with industry, agriculture, health 

 and sanitation, the value of agricultural im- 

 plements and machines, their cost, construction 

 and repair. Arrangements will also be made 

 for holding a competition on the Exhibition 

 grounds in ploughing and weaving, and pro- 

 cesses connected therewith. The exact time 

 and place of the lectures and demonstrations 

 will be announced later. The Committee 

 would thankfully accept donations for award- 

 ing prizes or medals from individuals or Asso- 

 ciations desiring to give an impetus to any 

 special branch of agriculture or industry. 



The Committoe invite exhibits from all the 

 Districts in the State, as well as from outside. 

 They also appeal to the various Agricultural 

 Departments and Associations in other parts of 

 India, Burma and Ceylon to help them with 

 exhibits and suggestions. Loading ryots and 

 non-official gentlemen will be invited to assist 

 the Committee in judging the exhibits. An 

 admission fee of two annas per head will be 

 levied each time a person enters the Exhibition 

 buildings. There will be no season, nor family, 

 nor special tickets at half rates for pupils. 



The prize list is divided into four main groups. 

 The first includes classes for held produce, plan- 

 tation and garden products, vegetables and 

 fruits, dyes, forest products, sugar, honey, baes- 

 wax, etc., dairy products, essential oils, fibres, 

 fodder plants and manures. Croup II consists 



of agricultural instruments and machinery. 

 Group III is the Industrial section ; and Group 

 IV live stock. In connection with the last men- 

 tioned, a sum of R500 is provided for prizes, 

 against R40J awarded last ytar. In all groups, 

 the Committee states that no prizes will be 

 awarded unless the exhibits are worthy of them. 



Intending exhibitors are requested to send 

 their exhibits so as to reach Mysore on the 10th 

 September, from which date the Committee 

 will arrange to take charge of them, but no 

 exhibits will be received after the 23rd idem. 

 These may be admitted at the discretion of the 

 Committee, but will not be allowed to compete 

 fo" prizes. Vegetables, fruits, dairy produce 

 and other perishable articles may however, be 

 sent in until 7 p.m. on the 29th September, — 

 M. Mail, June 29. 



FIELD FRUIT CULTURE IN MYSORE. 



Bangalore, June 28. — Yesterday, at 5 p.m., 

 the Chairman and Members of the Mysore Fruit 

 Syndicate, Ltd., were "At Home" to many 

 friends, on the occasion of the first harvesting 

 of grapes. Between two and three hundred 

 people assembled. The British Resident, the 

 Hon. Mr. Stuart Fraser, motored out with the 

 First Assistant Resident, Mr. J P Rennie. 

 Refreshments were provided for all commu- 

 nities, apart from the tasty dishes of fruit with 

 which all visitors were to be served. The Band 

 of Napier's Kifles was in attendance. Mr Fraser 

 went out while the rain was falling to pick 



THE FIRST BUNCH OF GRAPES 



from a vine that? he had planted with his own 

 hand some months ago, and he then added 

 bunch to bunch as he walked from vine to vine 

 until he had proved himself quite an efficient 

 " picker. 1 ' His reward came when he tasted the 

 fruit ! Of its quality everyone spoke in the 

 highest terms, and a particular variety of Rose 

 Muscatel Grapes elicited special commendation, 

 for no one present appeared ever to have tasted 

 anything so delicious until the first fruits of the 

 Bangalore venture were placed before them. 



In the course of the evening, Mr. Paul, the 

 Manager of the Fruit Farm, and its originator, 

 delivered a very effective speech. It was about 

 two years since he took up his first block of 

 land in Bangalore for fruit-growing, aud about 

 18 months since, at his request, Mr. Fraser 

 had very kindly taken the trouble to plant 



ONE AUSTRALIAN NAVEL ORANGE TREE 



(then hardly 18 inches in height) as well as a 

 grapevine, known as Muscat of Alexandria. Mr. 

 Fraser was present that day in order to harvest 

 the first basket of grapes with his own hands, 

 from the very vine that he had planted so re- 

 cently as eighteen months ago. It was, said 

 Mr. Paul, very gratifying, not only to him as 

 the Manager, but also to the worthy Chairman 

 and shareholders of the Mysore Fruit Syndi- 

 cate, Ltd., to welcome those present at a time 

 when both Orange tree aud the Vine were 

 bearing their first fruits. He had no doubt 

 that they had already inspected these and 

 others ; probably they might have even touched 

 tho fruit to see if it were not tied to the branches. 

 (Laughter). It might seem very funny for him 



