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[We learn that a well-known planter (still in 

 Ceylon) was in 1893 in charge of 'Gangwarily' 

 estate in Western Dolosbage for our old friend 

 the late Mr. John Drumrnond. and collected that 

 year a great deal of ripe Para Rubber seud 

 which was sold and sent to the Federated Malay 

 (States, chiefly Perak. So little was thought of 

 the rubber product then that, about the same 

 time, or a little later, some appreciable extant 

 under Ceara was uprooted to make room for tea. 

 Indeed, another Dolosbage planter, close by, 

 was in the habit of collecting (tapping) rubber 

 from trees on his tottam, until he had got a big 

 "Jump : ' put together and time after time, these 

 samples were sent to Colombo, with no further 

 acknowledgment than "Of no marketable 

 value " — so little was known then of the source 

 of wealth hidden in Para and Ceara Rubber 

 trees! Some of the Gang warily Para trees of 

 1893 (if to the fore) ought to be at least 21 or 

 23 years and giants and valuable now?— J. F.] 



CIRCUMVENTING THE WHITE ANT. 



The damage done by white ants in India 

 every year must run into tens of lakhs of rupees 

 besides involving an appalling amount of trouble 

 and inconvenience besides. This sort of thing 

 has been going on, one may suppose, sinco India 

 has been India; and, notwithstanding the gigau- 

 tic loss occasioned, the white ant still holds the 

 held against all its enemies — man included. No 

 one has yet been able to evolve a specific for the 

 white ant pest that is applicable under all con« 



ditions, yet there must be a lot of money wait- 

 ing for the inventor of such a specific. It is not 

 merely in the destruction of wood that the 

 white ant causes heavy loss, for its depredations 

 are probably greater amongst field crops of a cer- 

 tain kind. As an example, it may be noted that 

 the recent experiments of the Government of 

 the Punjab to grow cassava (tapioca) as a famine 

 crop were largely frustrated in almost every 

 district by the ravages of white ants. In Austra- 

 lia very much the same trouble is experienced 

 in farm operations, but the Australian white 

 ant has a decided weakness for young fruit 

 trees, a failing that has led to an important 

 discovery, which should have its value in India. 

 Mr. W. W. Froggatt, Government Entomologist, 

 New South Wales, has found that German 

 potash (kainifc) 1 will drive white ants out of 

 any soil where it is used as a manure." In 

 the matter of fruit tree planting, he adds, a 

 pound or so of kainit mixed with the soil when 

 planting should be sufficients for each tree. In 

 India cnemical manure is practically never used 

 for held crops ; though, if it were, it is admitted 

 that the yield would be increased in value 

 far beyond the cost of the manure employed. 

 The stock excuse is that the ryot is too poor 

 to purchase;, manure, but if th» manure to be 

 employed will not only increase his crops but 

 rid him of one of his worst enemies, would it not 

 be an advantage to the country if the various 

 Agricultural Departraents,steppedin and helped 

 the ryot to help himself ?- Pioneer, 



