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Edible Products. 



the nerves of taste there was no difference between this plebeian of the cotton 

 fields and the aristocrat of the Italian lazzaronis' olive groves. I next tried it on 

 an intelligent visitor, who nnsnspiciously ate thereof. He complimented its quality, 

 " liked the fine flavour, and was very fond of good olive oil, etc." You may imagine 

 his cheapened expression when told that it was " pure imported olive oil, direct- 

 all the way from the Dallas oil mill." 



Having used cottonseed meal freely in making both corn and flour muffins, 

 biscuit, pancakes, ginger bread, dark Graham bread, together with dark cakes of 

 all sorts, there is no reason to doubt the entire fittedness of cottonseed meal for com- 

 bination with other breadstuffs. If called to reduce the foregoing scattering facts 

 to a commercial proposition at this time— preparing cottonseed meal and placing 

 it upon the market for consumption as a bread stuff— I would advise the organiza- 

 tion of a special company for tbe specific purpose of marketing cottonseed meal 

 in an acceptable form to the consuming public. It can be done. Were I permitted 

 to occnpy the role of prophet, I would thrust back the curtaiu of years and see 

 the cottonseed meal resulting from a twenty million bale crush of cottonseed, 

 prepared as a white wholesome flour, robbed of its yellow dye, and sold in cartons 

 upon the markets of the world as the most valuable, the most concentrated and 

 the highest priced flour known to commerce. When at the end of ten years the 

 South grows twenty million bales of cotton with its twenty billion pounds of seed, 

 then the bread value of the meal in these seeds will equal in nutritive value the 

 present crop of thirty-three billion pounds of American wheat, for such will be 

 the result, I am satisfied, of the continued efforts of this association of Interstate 

 Cottonseed Crushers as it meets from year to year to consider the great economic 

 problem that rests upon your shoulders. — {From a Paper read before the Interstate 

 Cottonseed Crushers" Association, Atlanta, U, S. A., by J. H. Connell.) 



Notes on Some of the Dry Grains Cultivated in Ceylon. 



In November, 1905, I received through the courtesy of Mr. C. Drieberg, Super- 

 intendent, Government Stock Gardens, chiefly under their native names, a fine 

 collection of seeds of cereals grown in Jaffna and the North of the Island, and from 

 time to time he has kindly added to this collection. I am also indebted to him for 

 literature and letters on the subject ; amongst the letters, two particularly interesting 

 ones from the Maniakar of Delft, the information contained in which I have availed 

 myself of. 



A portion of the seeds were at once sowed in well-trenched patana soil at an 

 elevation of 4,500 feet, and subsequently artificially manured, but owing to the 

 poorness of the soil and the partial failure of the monsoon did not thrive. 



Other seed I sowed later in my kitchen garden at an elevation of 5,200 feet. 

 At such an elevation the growth has not, naturally, been luxuriant, but it 

 has been sufficient to enable me to identify the species and varieties. 



The following is a list of the Tamil names of the grains cultivated in the 

 North, taken chiefly from a list forwarded to Mr. Drieberg by the Maniakar of 

 Delft, to these names I have added the Sinhalese synonyms as far as I have been 

 able to learn them and the Botanical names. 



Tamil. Sinhalese. Varieties. Botanical. 



Mondy ... ... — ~] 



By J. F. Jowitt. 



Chamai 



i Panicum Crus-galli 

 Y var. frumeu- 

 taceum. 



Kuthrai-val 

 chamai 



Gojara-wala 



