FEBRUARY,il909.] 



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Miscellaneous. 



ence on the chief native industry of 

 the Island is a great desideratum, and 

 the publication will no doubt be much 

 appr eciated. In addition to other use- 

 ful information, the brochure treats of 

 the principles of manuring, and should 

 prove specially useful in inculcating 

 correct ideas regarding a subject upon 

 which, as a rule, the most hazy notions 

 obtain. 



Transplanting in Paddy Cultiva- 

 tion.— Mudaliyar J. A. YVirasinghe of 

 Rayigam korale reports that the follow- 

 ing persons have undertaken experi- 

 ments in transplanting in that korale : — 

 Vel-Vidaues of Kehelpanawa, Bellapi- 

 tiya, Mileniya, and Dambagoda; Vidane 

 Arachchi of Yolagala division; E. Don 

 Cornelis Appuhamy of Werewatta— all 

 for the yala season. 



Drought-resisting Paddy from Burma. 

 —A small supply of a drought-resisting 

 seed paddy called Taung-deik-pan has 

 been received from the Agricultural 

 Department of Burma. This paddy is 

 said to be generally sown in June and 

 transplanted in July, comes to maturity 

 in October, and is harvested in Novem- 

 ber. The seed will be available for experi- 

 ments in the dry districts, and applica- 

 tion for small quantities should be sent 

 in early. 



Sixty-days' Paddy for Hambantota.— 

 The Honorary Secretary of the Ham- 

 bantota Society has secured through the 

 Society a supply of sixty-days paddy 

 for the experiment during the next 

 maha season. 



Experimental Gardens.— It is proposed 

 to start an Experimental Garden in 

 Jaffna, to be placed in charge of the 

 Society's Agricultural Instructor sta- 

 tioned there, and worked under the 

 aupices of the local Agricultural Society. 

 The idea originated with the Govern- 

 ment Agent of the Northern Province. 



The Balangoda Garden has now made 

 a good start ; the Organizng Vice- 

 President, who inspected it during his 

 tour in November, reported that he 

 found it in very good order, 



The Bandaragama Garden continues 

 to progress satisfactorily. 



The Kegalla Garden has not yet passed 

 through the preparatory stage. 



Experimental Garden in Chilaio Dis- 

 trict. — It is proposed to establish a gar- 

 den at Rajakadaluwa, close to the 

 school, where a site has been selected 

 by the Assistant Government Agent. 

 With the appointment of an additional 

 Agricultural Instructor, it will be found 

 possible to make a start with the next 

 monsoon. 



Annatto Seed. — An application for 

 this product has been received from 

 India. 



Ceylon Kekuna Nut — This oil nut is 

 the subject of inquiry from abroad, and 

 particulars of quantities available, &c, 

 are being ascertained. 



Daincha Seed.— A supply of daincha 

 seed (Sesbania aculeata), recommended 

 as a green manure in paddy lands, has 

 been received from India. 



Chou Moellier.— The Secretary for 

 Agriculture, Melbourne, has kindly sent 

 some seed of this new fodder plant 

 belonging to the Kale family, and small 

 quantities will be available for purposes 

 of experiment. The seed sown at the 

 Government Stock Garden has come up 

 well. 



Ground Nuts.—Mv. K. Bandara Bed- 

 dewela, writing on December 29, 1908, 

 reported that the four pounds of 

 Senegal ground-nuts supplied by the 

 Society were planted on June 26 in 

 well-tilled soil, from which a crop of 

 onion was removed. They were pulled 

 up on the 26th instant, almost exactly 

 six months from planting, and after 

 drying, the gross result was 56 lb. of 

 nuts, which he considers a very satis- 

 factory result, in addition to the ameli- 

 orating effect of the crop on the land. 



Australian Maize.— The maize seed 

 distributed at the end of the year com- 

 prised three varieties, viz., 90-day 

 maize, 130-day maize, and white horse 

 tooth maize. They were sent to Ba- 

 dulla, Nuwara Eliya, Ratnapura, Ke- 

 galla, Anuradhapura, Jaffna, Kurune- 

 gala, Chilaw, Puttalam, and Mannar. 



Papaya Seed.— Seed of the Ceylon 

 papaw has been in demand from Manila, 

 Bengal, and Burma. 



Agricultuarl Work in the Maldives. — 

 Requests have been received from these 

 islands for cotton, tobacco, and teak 

 seed through the local representative 

 of the Maldivian Government. 



Tobacco.— Seed of the Alcasian variety 

 of tobacco was supplied by Messrs. 

 Freudenberg & Co., and experimental 

 sowings were made in different localities. 

 The cured leaves were from time to 

 time submitted through Messrs. Freu- 

 denberg for a continential report. 

 Writing on January 8, the local firm 

 furnished the following report from 

 Mr. Walther Freudenburg on samples 

 grown at Udappu and Chilaw :— "The 

 two samples sent in vary in quality, 

 one of them being rather black. My 

 broker reports on them as follows 

 ' The two samples of tobacco submitted 

 are inferior in quality to those sent 

 earlier in the year (from Welimada and 

 Badulla). Whilst the latter showed 

 rather broad brown leaves with thin 

 ribs, which, if further improved, would 

 no doubt find a market here, the samples 

 now sent would fetch very little owing 



