COLOMBO. 
Added as a Sup2)lement Monthly to the " TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. " 
The following jjages include the Contents of the Agricultural Magazine for 
November : — 
Vol. XIL] 
NOVEMBEK, 1900. 
[No. 5. 
THE BRANDING OF CATTLE, 
( Continued from last number.) 
PEAKING of the deterioration of 
hides, some years ago a letter was 
addressed by the London Chamber 
of Commerce drawing the atten- 
ticn of cattle owners to the re- 
duction in the price of hides 
caused by carelessness in branding cattle, and 
suggested the possibility of a distinctiTe mark 
being made on the horns and hoofs of animals. 
This latter suggestion I consider unsatisfactory, 
for obvious reason?, in a country where the 
technicalities involved in the art of cattle stealing 
are so well understood. An Australian leather 
merchant went the length of inserting an illus- 
tration showing brands placed on inferior parts 
cf the hide, with an annoupcemient headed 
