and Magaztne of the Ceylon Agricultural Society,— July, 1911, 



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is common in this climate. The treatment is absolute^ 

 rest in bed and a diet restricted to MILK ONLY. 



GREEN BUTTERFLY 

 BRAND 



M I LIC 



Contains no sugar, is sterilized, pure full cream, and being 

 homogenised mechanically, is the BEST procurable, and 

 has saved many lives, d. Always insist on FusselTs. 



Of all Retailers. Wholesale : Miller & Co., Colombo. 

 ^ RJSSELL & CO,, LTD., LONDON AND NORWAY 



(5) Bean Oil.— There is a very high percentage 

 of fat in the soya bean. This is of commercial 

 value. It is edible, and also forms an excellent 

 basis for candle and soap manufacture. 



(6) Bean Cake. — The seed cake left after ex- 

 pression of the oil from the soya bean forms 

 one of the most valuable and rich cattle foods 

 known. 



(7) Bean Sauce. — The soya bean ground up and 

 steeped in vinegar or brine forms a basis for 

 Worcestershire and other sauces. 



(8) Bean Coffee. — A substitute for coffee may 

 be made from the soya bean, by a dry toasting 

 and grinding it, then adding boiling cow's milk 

 or hot soya milk. 



(9) The straw surpasses in nitrogenous value 

 that of wheat or even hay. It is quite possible 

 that the leaves or root may have medicinal pro- 

 perties, but this has not yet been worked out. — 

 Home paper. 



ESTATE ''BUILDINGS" AND "SOILS." 



A planting correspondent writes :— " I re- 

 member seeing a good many years ago two very 

 useful books often on planters' tables and re- 

 ferred to, but which have gone out of sight 

 altogether so far as. my experience goes. They 



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were issued by the Planters' Association and 

 were Prize Essays, I think, on Estate Buildings 

 and the other on Estate Soils. They were nicely 

 printed in London. Can you tell me anything 

 about them and where copies can be got ?" — 

 Certainly, we reply ; because the P. A. sold most 

 of the editions to this office and a few copies re- 

 main, although not advertised lately. The Prize 

 Essays on Estate Buildings with scores of dia- 

 grams and plans for Stores, Bungalows, Cooly 

 Lines, Cattle-sheds, &c, were by Mr, J. do C. 

 Ballardie and Mr. T. C. Owen— both still well- 

 known in the London-Ceylon world ; and well 

 printed by " Strakers " and bound together 

 make a handy octavo volume of about 200 pages 

 in large type, the plans about 40 to 50 being 

 all drawn to scale. Being published in 1879, 

 l< coffee " was still the staple ; but most of the 

 buildings are adapted to tea, rubber, &c. The 

 price of the volume should be R6 ; but it can be 

 got now for half or K3. 



The other little book of 154 pages (also printed 

 by " Strakers ") is Mr, John Hughes' Report 

 to the P. A. on Ceylon Soils and Manures, in a 

 handy volume, Rl"65, published ; but can now be 

 got for a rupee, and both will at once be re-adver- 

 tised in view of our correspondent's enquiry. 



