and Magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society.— October, 1911. 377 



ALWAYS INSIST ON 



(GREEN BUTTERFLY 

 BRAND) 



ILK 



Absolutely pure, not sweetened, not condensed — just 

 pure fresh milk, mechanically cleaned and sterilized. 



A lady, well known in India, writes : — "Ishould like to mention to you 

 that I have made five voyages to India and back with babies, using many 

 kinds of tinned milk, and they all disagreed with them. Since your milk 

 was recommended to me I have made three voyages with young children 

 and babies, and the difference has been extraordinary. The children, so 

 far from getting thin and pale and ill, have flourished, and the terrors of 

 boardship with babies have vanished for me. I have recommended it to 

 many people, and in two cases by giving some of my own supply have 

 helped to save babies' lives. I am now going out again, so please send me 

 a case of forty-eight tins of your natural milk — 'Green Butterfly ' Brand.'" 



Of all Retailers. 

 Wholesale : Miller & Co., Colombo. 



FUSSELL &• Co., Ltd., LONDON and NORWAY 



RUBBER PROSPECTS. 



(Lockwood's London Letter, Sept. 16 ) 

 After a little set-back, the effect of which 

 was emphasised by some profit taking on top 

 of the recont rise the Rubber share market 

 appears definitely to have settled down to a 

 more hopeful frame of mind. Transactions in 

 this section, though still modest in volume, 

 are more important than the recorded price- 

 changes would appear to indicate, and dealers 

 report that there is a constant stream of quiet 

 investment business on account of shrewd 

 people who recognise the strong technical posi- 

 tion of the commodity and are convinced that 

 another general forward movement of prices 

 cannot much longer be delayed. So far, the 

 buying that has been in progress has been 

 confined mainly to the leading issues. 



Sept. '20th. -Without the Rubber Share 

 Market the Stock Exchange would indeed be 

 in the dumps. While foreign scares and home 

 strikes have badly affected values in all other 

 directions, the rubber share market has been 

 steady to good, and one does not look in vain 

 for favourable factors which are responsible 

 for this condition. A feature of the past week 

 has been the large number of small buying 

 orders from the provinces and elsewhere — 

 orders devotod, for the most part, to high- 

 class shares of the type that will be entering 

 the tanks of the big producers during the 

 next twelve months or two years. Evidently, 

 investors are beginning to realize that there 

 is a permanence, after all, about the Rubber 



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Plantation Industry. The older producing 

 companies continue to pay out satisfactory 

 dividends with a comforting persistence, aud 

 the younger companies show signs of emulating 

 their elders in the very near future. The Linggi 

 Company has declared its second interim divi- 

 dend of 43| per cent, and the Selangor Com- 

 pany announces a distribution of a second 62£ 

 per cent ; while the growing outputs from 

 the younger plantation companies justify ex- 

 pectations of early initial distributions from 

 thorn. — Zorn and Leigh Hunt. 



"INTENSIVE GARDENING." 



October 7th. 

 Sir, — Who can tell us exactly what " in- 

 tensive " gardening means— especially as ap- 

 plied to the tropics ? There is a good deal of 

 talk about it in England, not so much culti- 

 vating under glass ; but in the new French 

 mode— whatever that means ? The word " in- 

 tensive" does not once appear in the index to 

 Macmillan's " Handbook of Tropical Gardening 

 and Planting." — Yours, &c, 



ECONOMICAL HOUSEKEEPER. 



Oct. 13th. 



Sir, — In "Intensive" gardening, plants are 

 grown under glasses, a bell-shaped glass over 

 each plant, Rows of them can be seen in 

 gardens where this method is used. I send 

 this as I saw the question asked by a corres- 

 pondent in your paper. 



LETTUCE. 



