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Bupplement to the ^'Tropical Agriculturist.*' [Sept. 1, 1989, 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
The following is the result of a sale of cattle held 
at the Govei'iiment Dairy on the 18tli August : — 
No. 1 cow calf Es. 
purchased by Dr. Rockwood ... 40 
2 
J' 
J* 
Sir Harry Dias ... 55 
3 
" 
?j 
Mr. E. E. D. Ban- 
daranaike ... 43 
4 
)• 
Mr. A. A.C Moraes . 59 
5 
Mudaliyar S. E. de 
Fonseka ... 4fi 
6 
if 
Mr. A. A, C. Moraes. 70 
7 
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Mudaliyar S. E. de 
Fonseka ... 55 
8 
5? 
Mudaliyar Dasse- 
naike ... 51 
9 
» 
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Dr. Eockwood ... 36 
10 
}> 
Mr. E. E. D. Ban- 
daranaike ... 55 
11 
>i 
» 
... 63 
12 bull calf 
Bought in 
13 
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>» 
Mr. A.A.C. Moraes 110 
14 
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Dr. Eockwood ... 32 
15 
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Mudaliyar S. E, de 
Fonseka ... 80 
IG 
a cow 
J> 
Mr. A.A.C. Moraes 70 
17 
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Sir Harry Dias ... 48 
Es 913 
i 
The prices obtained are highly satisfactory, the 
average working out E57 a head, while EllO for 
a bull calf is quite a record price. 
We are now able to supply our readers with an 
index to the Tenth volume of the Agricultural 
Magazine. 
A meeting of the Commission appointed by H.E. 
the Governor to consider the advisability of having 
an Agricultural Department and to submit a report 
thereon, was held at the Agricultural College yes- 
terday morning, ■^hen there were present the 
Hon. Mr. Justice Lawrie (Chairman), the Hon. Mr. 
L. F. Lee, the Hon. Mr. A. de A. Seneviratne, the 
Hon. Mr. J. N. Campbell, Messrs. F. G. A. Lane 
and Don Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, Maha Muda- 
liyar. A letter from Mr. J. H. Starey, Nuwnra 
Eliya, was read. Mr. Lee's amendment on the 
report was placed before the meeting, and after 
some discussion. The Chairman proposed that 
Mr, Lee's report be adopted with the amendmenf, 
and that it be printed and circulated among 
the members for any additions they think proper 
to make. The proposal was agreed to, and the 
proceedings terminated. 
The Colombo Agri-Horticultural Society offered 
a gold and a silver medal for country-bred horses 
exhibited at the Horse, Cattle, and Dog Show held 
in August. Both awards went to the Maha Muda- 
liyar who is foremost among horse-breeders in 
the Island. 
The local Paris Exhibition Committe has re- 
commended to Government that Mr. W. E. David- 
son, who is Vice-Chairman and Secretary General 
of the Committee, should proceed to Paris as official 
representative of Ceylon. Mr. Davidson was one 
of the officials connected with the representation 
of Ceylon in London at the Indian and Colonial 
Exliibition of 1880, and we do not think a wiser 
selection could have been made than has been 
done by the Paris Exhibition Committee, and the 
interests of Ceylon should be perfectly safe in 
tlie hands of the Commisioner elect : 
RAINFALL TAKEN AT THE SCHOOL OP 
AGRICULTURE DUEING THE MONTH OF 
JULY, 1899. 
1 
Saturday 
Nil 
17 
Monday 
Nil 
J) 
Sundiiy 
Nil 
18 
Tuesday 
•25 
3 
Mondiiy 
Nil 
19 
Wednesday 
Nil 
4 
Tuesday 
•08 
20 
Thursday . . 
Nil 
5 
Wednesday. . 
•33 
21 
Friday 
Nil 
6 
Thursday . . 
Nil 
22 
Saturday . . 
Nil 
7 
Friday 
Nil 
23 
Sunday 
Nil 
8 
Saturday . . 
Nil 
24 
Monday 
Nil 
9 
Sunday 
Nil 
26 
Tuesday 
Nil 
10 
Jlonday 
Nil 
26 
Wednesday 
Nil 
11 
Tuesday 
Nil 
27 
Thursday . . 
Nil 
12 
AVedne,-day... 
Nil 
28 
Friday 
Nil 
13 
Thursday ... 
Nil 
29 
Saturday ... 
Nil 
14 
Friday 
Nil 
30 
Sundaj' 
Nil 
15 
Saturday ... 
Nil 
31 
Monday 
Nil 
16 
Sunday 
Nil 
1 
Tuesday 
Nil 
Total... -m 
Greatest amount of rainfall in any 24 hours 
on the 5th inst., '33 inches. 
Mean rainfall for the month ^02 in. 
Eecorded by Mr. J. A. G. Eodbigo. 
* -VETEEINAEY ITEMS. 
It is high time that some organization was 
brought about in the Veterinary Department of 
Ceylon which at present consists of the Colonial 
Veterinary Surgeon and an assistant. It is of 
Cour.se impossible for these two officers to make 
any impression on the stock diseases and 
especially the contagious diseases of the Colony. 
Not even when rinderpest rages in a dozen different 
centres has it been thought practicable tojincrease 
the veterinary staff in such an emergency. And 
while KoclTs method of inoculation is being 
adopted under Government auspices wherever 
rinderpest occurs, it no decided official recognition 
of this new discovery appears to have been given 
to it in Ceylon. 
The following is the Government Eesolution on 
the Report by the Imperial Bacteriologist on the 
results of the inoculation against the disease in 
the Bareilly district : — 
In the Resrlution of the Department of Revenue 
and Agriculture, Nn. 8-94-8 , dated the 5th May, 
1898, on the subject of the demonstrations made 
by Dr. Koch at Mukhtesai of his methods 
of immunizing cattle against rinderpest, the 
Government of India asked for the hearty co- 
operation of Local Governments and Administra- 
tions in the c irrying out of experiments in differ- 
ent parts of the country, more especially in th 
districts in the plains. The opportunity ha 
recently occurred of making such experiments i 
