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Miscellaneous. 



Agri-Horticultural Shows.-The follow- 

 ing 'is a list of Agri-Horticultural Shows 

 to be held next year as far as arranged :— 



Branch Society. 



Hanguranketa 

 Welimada 

 Nuwara Bliya 

 Mannar 

 Negombo 

 Mirigama (School 



Garden Show) ... 

 Rayigam Korale ... 

 Puttalam 

 Galle 

 Jaffna 



Wanni Hatpattu at 



(Balalla) 

 Delft (at Jaffna; ... 



Colombo 



Telijjawila 



Kandy 



Harispattu (at 



Kandy) 

 Dumbara (at 



Kandy) 

 Kegalla 



Kurunegala (3 or 4 

 atvillage centres) 



Wellaboda Pattu) 

 Galle) 



Probable Date. 



January or April 

 March 



Easter Monday- 

 April 30 and May 1 

 May 



May 

 May 24 

 May 24 

 Juno 23 to 25 

 June 



June 



In co-operation with 



Jaffna 

 June (4th week) 

 July 17 

 August 



In co-operation with 



Kandy 

 In co-peration with 



Kandy 

 September 25 and 26 



No date fixed 



December. 20 and 21 



Nagpur Exhibition (India).— The 

 authorities in India having expressed 

 a wish that samples of our chief agri- 

 cultural products be shown at the 

 Nagpur Exhibition, which opened on 

 November 12, the following exhibits 

 were procured and forwarded through 

 the courtesy of the exhibitors : — 



Cacao (raw and manufactured), C. C. 

 Barber, The Grove, Ukuwela. 



Cardamoms, James Westland, Mousa- 

 kande estate, Gammaduwa, 



Cardamoms, Thirty Committee of the 

 Ceylon Planters' Association, Kandy. 



Cinnamon, A. E. Rajapakse, Mudaliyar, 

 Katunayake. 



Cinnamon bark oil, Jacob de Mel, 

 Colombo. 



Citronella oil, Government Agricul- 

 tural Chemist. Colombo. 



Citronella oil, Bopagoda Agricultural 

 Society, Akuressa. 



Coconut, desiccated, D. L. Wije- 

 wardene, Loo Mills, Mirigama. 



Coconut, desiccated J. D. Vander- 

 straaten, Kandawella Mills, Negombo. 



Coconut oil, Freudenberg & Co., 

 Colombo. 



Coconut poonac, Freudenberg & Co,. 

 Colombo. 



Coconut fibre, Freudenberg & Co., 

 Colombo. 



Coconut matting, Freudenberg & Co., 

 Colombo, 



Rubber, J. F. Elford, Culloden estate, 

 Neboda, 



Rubber, Chas. Northway, Elpitiya. 



Rubber tapping knives, Brown & 

 Davidson, Talawakele. 



Tea, Ceylon Tea Growers' Association, 

 Kandy. 



Vanilla, James Westland, Mousakande 

 estate, Gammaduwa. 



Mysore Exhibition.— At this Show 

 held in October last the Dumbara Agri- 

 cultural Society was awarded a medal 

 for an exhibit of locally-grown tobacco. 



Transplanting in Paddy Cultivation. — 

 At Telijjawila transplanting was carried 

 on in a field at Maragoda, close to the 

 main road from Matara to Akuressa. 

 This field was specially selected owing 

 to its poor soil, which never yields 

 more than four-fold under ordinary 

 methods of cultivation. The sowing 

 extent is 18 kurunies, and plants from 

 2 kurunies' extent sufficed for trans- 

 planting. The yield was 690 kurunies. 

 The land belongs to the Vidane Arachchi 

 of Pahalawalakada who took great 

 interest in the experiment, and is help- 

 ing the boys of Dampella and Paraduwa 

 Government schools to prepare beds 

 for transplanting this harvest. The 

 results will, it is hoped, induce others 

 to take up transplanting on an extended 

 scale. 



In the Wellaboda Pattu (Galle) trans- 

 planting is being carried on in fourteen 

 different divisions under the supervision 

 of the Vidane Arachchies. 



The Kalutara Totamuue Mudaliyar 

 has undertaken cultivation with trans- 

 planting at Bombuwela. 



Similar demonstrations are being con- 

 ducted by the Mudaliyar of Payigain 

 Korale, in six Vidane divisions. 



The Minneri Experiment.— Mr. T. B. 

 Minneriya, Korala of lnamaluwa district. 

 IVlinneriya, reports as follows on the 

 experiment started by Mr. G. W. Perkins 

 of the Irrigation Department : — "The 

 plants reached a height of from 3| to 

 4 feet, and in comparison with the 

 surrounding fields this portion was the 

 best in appearance and in every other 

 respect. The number of seeds in each 

 ear averaged 150 to 200, and the yield 

 for the 'ih measures transplanted gave 

 about 40 bushels (366-fold). I ought to 

 mention that the transplanting was 

 somewhat delayed for want of labour, 

 and some damage was done to the paddy 

 by fly as well as by cattle." 



Experimental Gardens.— The Kegalla 

 Garden is making progress. A selection 

 of fruit and shade plants was supplied 

 from Peradeniya and the Government 

 Stock Garden, and the services of the 



