Miscellaneous. 



441 



[November, 1909. 



Old cotton and cotton pests. " T. A." 



Sept. 1997, p. 180. 

 Treatment of cotton pests in West 



Indies in 1907. West India Bull- 



FX. No. 3, p. 235. 

 D ; °infection of cotton seed. Agr. 



News, June 1909. "T.A." Sept, 1909, 



p, 209. 



Cotton Harvesting :— 



La recolte mecanique du coton. Journ. 



d' Agr. trop. 30. 6. 1906, p. 163. 

 The use of cotton-seed and cotton 



cake meal as a feeding stuff on 



West Indian plantations. Agr. 



News, 2. 6. 1906. p. 170. 

 Cotton seed oil and meal as a human 



food. " T.A." Nov. 1906, p. 388. 

 Cotton meal and cotton seed as ferti 



lisers. do. p- 425. 

 The food value of cotton seed oil, 



Trin. Bull. Oct. 1908, p. 25. 

 Cotton growing. Daniel Jones 



Queenls. Agri. Jl., March 1909, p. 



135. "T.A." July 1909, p. 11. 

 Picking cotton. Queensl. Agri. Jl. 



Feb. 1909. "T.A." Aug. 1909, p. 115. 



Cotton Improvements— Selection : 



Bekahntmachung iiber Zuchtung von 

 Baum wollsaat in Deutsch-Ostaf rica 

 Der Plauzer, June 1900, p. 2, 

 Cotton selection in the Leeward 

 Islands. W. I. Bull. X. 1. 1909, p. 79. 



CEYLON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Minutes of Meeting Held on 18th 

 October, 1909. 



Minutes of a meeting of the Board of 

 Agriculture held at the Council Chamber 

 on Monday, 18th October, 1909, at 12 

 noon. 



His Excellency the Governor presided, 

 and there were also present:— Sir Hugh 

 Clifford, k.c.m.g., Sir Solomon Dias 

 Bandaranaike, Hon'ble Messrs. H. L. 

 Crawford, C.M.G., P. Arunachalam, A. 

 Kanaarasabai, Dr H. M. Fernando and 

 Messrs. R. H. Lock, W. D. Gibbon, E. E. 

 Green, G. W. Sturgess, Tudor Rajapakse, 

 W. A, de Silva, F. L. Daniel, J. D. 

 Vanderstraaten, C. Drieberg (Secretary). 

 As visitors :— Dr. Grenier and Mr. Alfred 

 Drieberg. 



Minutes of the meeting held on August 

 2nd, 1909, were read and confirmed. 



Progress Report No. 46 was adopted. 



Statements of expenditure for August 

 and September, 1909, were tabled. 



The Hon'ble Mr. Kauagasabai moved. — 

 "That it is desirable to open Experi- 

 mental Gardens in suitable localities in 

 each province, and that as an encourage- 

 ment this Society offer to pay one-half 

 of the cost of upkeep up to a certain 

 limit, the other half being met from a 

 fund to be raised by the people of the 

 district." 



Mr. W. D. Gibbon seconded. Dr. H. M. 

 Fernando spoke in support of the 

 motion. The Hon. Sir Hugh Clifford 

 drew attention to the financial diffi- 

 culties that may arise from the adoption 

 of the motion, and advised caution in 

 dealing with a proposal of this kind. At 

 the suggestion of the Hon'ble Mr. P. 

 Arunachalam, the subject was referred 

 to a Committee consisting of :— The 

 Hon'ble Mr. Bernard Senior, Sir Solomon 

 Dias Bandaranaike, Dr. H. M. Fernando, 

 Messrs. R. H. Lock, W. D. Gibbon, 

 W, A. de Silva and the Hon'ble Mr. 

 Kanagasabai. 



Mr. E. E. Green, Government Entomo- 

 logist, read a paper on the Insects asso- 

 ciated with the Cotton plant in Ceylon 

 (illustrated by mounted specimens), and 

 the Secretary read a note on Nitrifying 

 Bacteria, illustrated by microscopic 

 slides shown by Dr. F. Grenier. 



C. DRIEBERG. 

 Secretary, C. A. S. 



CEYLON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Progress Report XLVI. 

 Membership. —Since the meeting of 

 August 2 the following members have 

 joined the Society : — The Commanding 

 Officer, Salvation Army, Colombo, A. 

 W. Bisset, E. M. Windus, B. S. Doole, 

 R. de Roos Norman, P. A, Keiller, 

 Jerome E. Perera, J. B. Sidgwick, 

 W. Stott, H. Kennedy, A. D. Hartridge, 

 the Director of Agriculture, Trivandram, 

 W. A. Stewart, A. T. Wernigg, A. Alers 

 Hankey, J. W. Bakewell, R. Leslie 

 Melville, R. E. Dais, and L. B, Greig. 

 Totil 835. 



Official Tours.— The Secretary toured 

 in Alutkuru Korale North and the 

 Katugampola and Hinidum pattus, and 

 visited the Show at Pannala. Agricul- 

 tural Instructors Wickremaratne, S. 

 Chelliah, and L. A. D. Silva were oc- 

 cupied over the ploughing demonstra- 

 tions in the Hambantota District, where 

 Mr. L. A. D. Silva is now engaged in 

 supervising the ploughing done by cul- 

 tivators at the request of the Assistant 

 Government Agent. 



Mr. S. R. Breckenridge has been visit- 

 ing Vandarumulla, Sandivelly, Kiran, 

 Valaichenai, Panichankirny, Vakarai, 



