Miscellaneous. 



450 



[November, 1911. 



siasm ; the people all over my territory 

 have been and are now clamouring for 

 new seed. Messrs. E. W. and B. W. 

 Washington, of Cross Keys, Ala. (both 

 demonstrators), had picked over twenty 

 bales of cotton by September 7 from seed 

 introduced by the Department. Mr. 

 Jackson Donner, of Warriorstand, Ala., 

 informs me that every man in his com- 

 munity is trying to buy, borrow, or beg 

 cotton of him. 



(9.) I have given considerable time to 

 the matter of encouraging the people to 

 improve their live stock since I have 

 been doing the demonstration work. 1 

 constructed a crate on the Jesup agri- 

 cultural wagon for the purpose of carry- 

 ing the best breeds of live stock, such as 

 Berkshire and Poland China pigs and 

 Jersey and Shorthorn calves to the 

 farmers' meetings, and showing them 

 just how they could improve their herds. 

 I am glad to say that the farmers have 

 purchased better live stock, especially 

 Berkshire hogs, from the Tuskegee Insti- 

 tute and other places. 



(10.) The farmers are canning a large 

 quantity of fruit and vegetables. At 

 the most of our farmers' meetings we 

 have had exhibits of home-canned veget- 

 ables and fruits. The increase is about 

 40 per cent. 



(11.) In our community meetings we 

 have what is known as the inspecting 

 Committee who go around and criticise 

 the homes in general. In this way we 

 keep the subject of applying whitewash 

 and paint ever before the farmers, who 

 are now building better houses and 

 applying more paint and whitewash than 

 I have ever known them to do before. 



(12.) The effect of bettering the high- 

 ways and the construction of telephones 

 is not very appreciable as yet, but in my 

 territory there have been more mail 

 boxes put up within the past two years 

 than ever before. A great many farmers 

 put them up purposely to receive the 

 mail from the Department. 



(18.) The degree in which the tenants 

 have been purchasing farms is capable 

 of being perceived. 1 recall to mind 

 instances while travelling where there 

 was no demonstration work where 

 tenants sought information as to the 

 possibility of buying farms within the 

 bounds of my territory, in order that 

 they might have the advantage of the 

 agricultural instruction furnished by 

 the Department. 



T. M. Campbell, 



District Agent. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



CEYLON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Minutes of a meeting of the Board of 

 Agriculture, held at the Council Cham- 

 ber at 12 noon on Monday, the 16th 

 October, 1911. 



The Hon'ble the Acting Colonial Secret- 

 ary presided. 



The following members were present :— 

 The Hon'ble Mr. Bernard Senior, The 

 Hon'ble Mr. C. T. D. Vigors, Sir Solomon 

 Dias Bandaranaike. Dr. J. C. Willis, Dr. 

 R. H. Lock, Dr. H. M. Fernando, Messrs. 

 H. P. Macmillan, R. S. Templeton, John 

 Ferguson, G. W. Sturgess, G. Harbord, 

 Tudor Rajapakse Mudaliyar, F. L. 

 Daniel, and L. W. A. de Soysa. 



The minutes of the meeting held on the 

 14th August were read and confirmed. 



Progress Report No. 56 was duly 

 adopted. 



Statements of expenditure for August 

 and September, 1911, were tabled. 



A Report by the Chairman of the 

 Tobacco Committee, together with the 

 Resolution adopted at the last meeting 



of the Committee, and other connected 

 papers (previously circulated) were sub- 

 mitted by Dr. Willis, who summed up 

 the situation in a speech. A discussion 

 ensued in which the Chairman, Dr. 

 Willis, Mr. John Ferguson, Dr. Fer- 

 nando, Mr. Senior and Dr. Lock took 

 part. 



Dr. Willis submitted the following 

 Resolutions :— 



(a) "That this Committee does not 

 consider it advisable to continue the 

 Tobacco experiment upon the same lines 

 as hitherto, viz., upon a commercial 

 basis, as as it is of opinion that financi- 

 ally such an experiment must end in fail- 

 me, owing to the high cost of growing 

 the tobacco and the low price realised 

 from the sale thereof. The Committee 

 consider that such an undertakiug is 

 altogether too large for the Agricultural 

 Society, having in view the amount of 

 funds at its disposal." 



(&) "The Committee, however, are of 

 opinion that it will be a' pity to cease 

 the experiment in Tobacco growing in 



