undertake to carry out an experiment, the choice of the experiment to rest with 

 the experimentalist ; all experiments to be registered by the Secretary of the Branch. 

 Members would he required to attend at the Branch meetings and report results. 

 Failure to carry out their experiments to involve loss of membership. 



Members undertaking to carry out experiments to be exempt from payment 

 of subscription. Thirty-two members joined, twenty-two of whom gave a donation 

 to the Branch, in addition to undertaking an experiment. Rs. 1P25 was paid in 

 donations. There was a large number of applications for seeds, especially for chillies 

 and yams, which have been sent to the Branch. With very few exceptions, all the 

 members are villagers with small holdings. The experiments to be made are 

 principally in opening up vegetable gardens. 



The meeting at Badulla was held on the day following the Agricultural 

 Show, and Avas attended by many of the leading planters of the district. A 

 paper was read on the " Propagation of Plants" by Mr. J. K. Nock, and a 

 Progress Report by the Secretary of the Branch showing what steps had been 

 taken to hold castration demonstrations and distribute seed. 



At Passdra, with the assistance of Mr. James Duncan, Capt. H. Gordon 

 and the Ratemahatmaya of Yatikinda, a Branch was started on the same lines 

 as the Kuruwiti Korale Society. Twenty-three working members joined ; seeds 

 were distributed, and applications for a further supply received. 



At Welimada there was a very good attendance at the village school 

 which won the First Prize for its garden at the Badulla Show. 



The Branch was very recently started, and with the additional members 

 who joined after the meeting it has a membership of 28— all "working" mem- 

 bers—that is to say, members undertaking to carry out experiments or pay 

 subscriptions. 



Rs. 75"50 were promised at the meeting in prizes for the best cotton, 

 sugarcane, chillies, pumpkins, onions, potatoes, tobacco, and manioca grown in 

 the district, for the best native vegetable garden, and for the best cultivation 

 in a paddy field in which it was not possible to liaise a crop of paddy. There 

 were thirteen applications for seed. It was decided to affiliate the Branch with 

 the Parent Society. 



At a meeting held at Teldeniya on the 3rd April it was decided to start 

 a Branch of the Agricultural Society for the Dumbara District. 



The Delft Branch of the Society has decided to plant cotton on a large 

 scale in Delft. 



The Katunayaka Branch decided to offer two prizes of Rs, 10 and Rs. 5 

 for the best crop raised from sixty-days paddy. Twenty-five bushels were procured 

 by Mr. A. E. Rajapakse, Muhandiram, Chairman of the Branch, who distributed 

 it among the villages, half a bushel to each applicant. 



The Telijjawila (Weligam Korale) Branch has decided to open up fruit 

 gardens. Seven Vidane-Arachchies agreed to start gardens with thirty plants in 

 each garden, five plants of each of the following six kinds :— Loquats, Rata Kara- 

 pincha, Chinese Guava, Star Apple, Hog Apple, and Sapodilla. 



It was further decided to purchase Rs. 30 worth of vegetable seeds and 

 to hold a small Vegetable Show at the end of the year. 



The Mudaliyar has procured three boxes of French mushroom spawn for 

 members of this Branch, as there is a considerable demand for better varieties 

 of mushroom in this district. Results will be reported in June. 



