AGRICULTURAL mAGAZHlG, 
COLOMBO. 
Added as a Supplement Monthly to the " TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST." 
The following pages include the Contents of the Agricultural Magazine 
for July :— 
Vol. 
vi.] 
JULY, 1894. 
[No. 1. 
OUR NEW VOLUME. 
HE present number commences the 
sixth volume of the Magazine 
which was started in July 1889. 
Our readers may remark that 
there has been a slight alteration 
in the title, but this will in no way affect the 
character or conduct of the publication, which 
will still be true to the interests it has served for 
the past five years. As hitherto, the Magazine 
will have for 'its main object the development 
of the agricultural resources of the Colony, and 
specially °of native agriculture. And while it 
will contain a record of the work and progress of 
the School of Agriculture, all useful information 
relating to cultivated crops : new products, man- 
agement of cattle and dairy matters, and m fact 
to everything having a bearing on the agriculture 
of the country will find a place in these pages. 
We take this opportunity of thanking our subscri- 
bers for their past support, which we trust will be 
continued to us in the future as well. 
Mr W A De Silva, g.b.v.c, has assumed 
duties as acting Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and 
the School of Agriculture might well be proud 
of one of its old boys having attained to so 
responsible and honourable a post. We do not 
doubt but that Mr. De Silva with his capacity 
for work and sense of duty will perform the 
duties of his temporary appointment with the 
utmost satisfaction. 
The Government Dairy which had so rough 
a time during the late outbreak of murrain has 
once more recovered its equilibrium. It has 
now a daily output of nearly 50 gallons, the 
whole of which is in demand. 
Mr J- Weerasooriya, late of the School of 
Agriculture, has been appointed a Forest Ranger 
in the Badulla district. 
Mr. E. Hoole, assistant master at the School, 
was awarded the Government Veterinary Scholar- 
ship, and has already entered upon his course 
of studies at the Bombay Veterinary College. 
Mr. George C. Bellamy, District Officer, 
Selangor, has made an official report on the 
Ceylon Government Dairy Farm for the Govern- 
ment of Selangor, as the result of a visit paid 
to that institution a few months ago. In con- 
cl uding his report, Mr. Bellamy says :— " As a re- 
sult of my visit to the farm, I feel certain that the 
establishment of a similar institution at Kwala 
Lumpur would be attended with satisfactory 
results, and I trust that the information given 
above will be of value to the Government." 
With this 
Volume V. 
number we issue an Index to 
RAINFALL AT THE SCHOOL OF AGRICUL- 
TURE DURING JUNE. 
1 .. 
. Nil 
11 .. 
. Nil 
21 .. 
•03 
2 
. 2-39 
12 .. 
; -97 
22 .. 
•04 
o 
O 
•46 
13 .. 
•56 
23 .. 
oi 
4 .. 
•26 
14 .. 
. 1-26 
24 .. 
•18 
5 .. 
•68 
15 .. 
•51 
25 . 
•05 
6 . 
•14 
16 .. 
•01 
26 .. 
•01 
7 .. 
•82 
17 .. 
"75 
27 .. 
•OS 
S ■ 
•38 
.18 .. 
•86 
28 .. 
. Nil 
9 . 
•03 
19 .. 
•01 
29 .. 
. Nil 
10 . 
■01 
20 . 
•01 
30 .. 
. Nil 
Recorded by P. Van De Bona. 
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
There can he no question that the implements 
in use among our native agriculturists are 
of the most primitive type, but whether they can 
be satisfactorily improved or replaced is a another 
matter on which it would not be safe to dogamatise 
since much has been said and written about it pro 
