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Miscellaneous' 



in the market has usually been under- 

 cooked owing to the loss in weight 

 which takes place when fully cooked. 

 Butter loses about 25 per cent, in the 

 process of clarification. The yield of 

 ghi from the butter of the buffalo is 

 higher than from that of the cow. The 

 boiling butter is allowed to be parti- 

 ally cooled, when the ghi may be decant- 

 ed off the top of the sediment. The 

 ordinary ghi of the bazaars is principally 

 derived from buffalo milk. One quart 

 of buffalo milk yields about 3 oz. of ghi, 

 while the same quantity of cow milk 

 may only afford about half that quatity, 

 or, with extra fine qualities, three 

 quarters of the ghi mentioned. Ghi from 

 goat milk is very inferior owing to the 

 disagreeable odour it possesses, while 

 that of sheep milK is often spoken of as 

 superior even to buffalo butter. 



C. D, C.-The Acting Director of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens writes with 

 reference to your enquiry : — " Your cor- 

 respondent writes of the ' interplanting 

 of Cocoa with Rubber,' but the remain 

 der of his letter seems to lefer to the 

 interplanting of rubber with cocoa. I 

 do not consider cocoa a suitable crop to 

 plant with rubber in the Kelani Valley 

 districts. Rubber may with advantage 

 be planted in old cocoa where the latter 

 is not a success with the object of even- 

 tually supplanting it." 



L. P. E.— With reference to your 

 report of the death by the " bleeding " 

 of orange trees, resulting as you thought 

 in the death of one, the Government 

 Mycologist says : — " Gummosis of orange 

 trees may occur from any wounds, 

 and can be stopped by cutting out 

 the decayed tissue and tarring the 

 wound. It is not likely to have 

 killed the tree ; death was probably 

 due to exhaustion. It may be pointed 

 out that the orange is not a tropical 

 fruit, and that there are very few 

 localities in Ceylon in which it will 

 flourish continuously." 



B. M.— The following from the Jamaica 

 bulletin (New series No. 1) gives infor- 

 mation as to how the mango should be 

 budded : —Plant out seeds of a woody 

 sort to be budded when 18 months or 2 

 years old. Buds from wood H to 2 

 years old showing leaf scars cm the 

 bark should be selected. The bark 

 should lift freely. Buds can be inserted 

 either by cutting out a corresponding 

 piece on the bark of the branch to be 

 treated, or the bud can be slipped under 

 a T-shaped incision in the ordinary 

 way and then securely tied with fibre. 

 In budding old trees, do not cut the 



whole tree at once, or it will die. Cut 

 the main branches about a foot from 

 the stem, smooth and protect with tar, 

 When the new growth is 1 to 1| inches 

 in diameter it is fit to make a bud. 

 When the buds have started to grow the 

 other branches can be cut down and 

 similarly treated. 



F. D.— Dried blood for pine-apple, at 

 the rate of 200 lbs. per acre, has been 

 found very satisfactory in Porto Rico, 

 where the pine-apple is grown exten- 

 sively. An all-round fertilizer recom- 

 mended for young plants is a mixture 

 of dried blood, bonemeal and potash, 

 which would analyse something like 5 % 

 Ammonia, 30 % Bone phosphate, and 5 % 

 Potash. This may be followed later on, 

 when the plants are ready to blossom, 

 by an application of Bonemeal and 

 Potash. 



CEYLON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Minutes of the General Meeting 

 June 8th, 1909. 



Minutes of a General Meeting of the 

 Ceylon Agricultural Society, held at the 

 Council Chamber at 12 noon on Tuesday, 

 the 8th June, 1909. 



His Excellency the Hon'ble Mr. Hugh 

 Clifford presided. 



There were also present :— The Hon'ble 

 Mr. H. L. Crawford, c.M.G., the Hon'ble 

 Mr. J. N. Campbell, the Hon'ble Mr. 

 S. C. Obeyesekere, the Hon'ble Mr. P. 

 Arunachaiam, Sir S. D. Bandaranaike, 

 Messrs. C. M. Lushington, A. Fairlie. 

 J. S. Paterson, W. D. Gibbon, R. H. Lock, 

 T. Petch, A. Bruce, G. E. Piachaud, 

 G. Harbord, S, Roth well, J. D. Vander- 

 straaten, T. Rajapakse (Mudaliyar), 

 J. H. Meedeniya, R, M„ J. P. Obeyesekere, 

 Francis L, Daniel, R. C Proctor, M. 

 Suppramaniam, Alex. Perera, W. A. de 

 Silva, Drs. H. M. Fernando and G. H. de 

 Saram, and Mr. C Drieberg (Secretary). 



The minutes of the General Meetiug 

 held on 15th June, 1908, were read and 

 confirmed. 



The Secretary presented his Annual 

 Report (previously circulated) which was 

 taken as read. 



The Hon'ble Mr. Crawford, Acting Colo- 

 nial Secretary, moved, and Mr. Lushing- 

 ton, Government Agent, Southern Pro- 

 vince, seconded :— That the paragraph 

 referring to Branch Societies be omit- 

 ted. — Carried, 



The report in its amended form was 

 adopted on the motion of the Hon'ble 

 Mr. Crawford,- seconded by Dr. H. M. 

 Fernando 



