Bwp'plement to the " Tropical Agrkultwkt " [Apeil 2, 1900. 
tht reeults of the final examination held last 
November, three students became entitled to the first 
•lass certificate of merit granted by the Department. 
Veterinary training continues to form part of the 
Bohool course and ah'eady three old boys of thf 
■onool have fully qualified as veterinary surgeons, 
while two others have lately been appointed stock- 
Inapectors. The present Government Veterinary 
Beholar is J B Fernando — also a late student of the 
•chool— who left for Bombay at the end of last year 
to prosecute his studies at the Veterinary College 
there. He succeeded Veterinary.8tirgeon Chinniah, 
who, with commendable enterpiize, started practice 
tu Colombo on his own account — a departure which, 
I believe, he has no reason to regret. 
The other institutions (the existence of which few 
persons are aware of) located in this building are 
tb« Government Training and Practising Schools 
and the School of Forestry. But of these 1 
hftT* no excuse to say anything today. The 
Government Dairy, however, is more inti- 
nately connected with the School of Agriculture, 
and I am able to report that it has been working 
atiifactorily during the past year. We have now 
In the Dairy 82 cows, 72 calves and seven bulls, 
tr, ft total of 161 animals. 
The net profit from the Dairy on last year's 
working was nearly R2,500, while that from the 
Model Farm exceeded E3,000. In addition to this a 
■nm of B4,337 was realized by the sale of stock, 
■riueipally young stock bred on the farm. The 
Dairy has now paid back to Government the sum 
■f Bll,600 advanced for working of the concern ; 
•ver and above which it has refunded a sum of 
■early E13,000. against an initial expenditure of 
B19,539 on buildings and equipment. But then our 
■tock-in-trade was at the end of last year reason- 
ably estimated to be worth R13,S00, a sum which, 
I think, the moat cautions speculator would be 
willing to give for it. But, while all this is very 
satiatactory, the School of Agriculture of which the 
Dairy is an offshoot, derives no advantage by the 
prosperity of the latter. 
It is a pleasure to me to be able to count Mr. 
Harward among the speakers this evening. The short 
time he acted as Director was more than sufficient 
to Impress us with his worth, and for his continued 
iateieBt in this institution we are most grateful. 
I must not omit to acknowledge our indebtedness 
to Mr. J W O De Soysa, who with traditional 
liberality, continues to present the handsome prize 
which the late Mr. Charles De Soysa fii-at offered for 
aompetition among onr students. 
Finally, I have the pleasant duty of thanking you, 
ladies and gentlemen, for your encouraging presence 
bfere today, for, I say it regretfully, our friends are all 
tos few. 
The prices weredistributed by the Chairman : - 
THE PRIZE LIST. 
gBNioE Form:— 1, English, E W Jayatilleke ; 2, 
Mathematics, G 8 Jayasinghe ; 3, Agriculture, G S 
Jayaeindhe; 4, Science, P 0 Fernando; 5, Practical 
Chemistry, G S Jayasinghe; 6, Veterinary, E W 
Jayatilleke. 
Junior Fokm:— 1, English, M D S A Wijenaike; 
2, Mathematics, C S Fernando ; 3, Agriculture, M 
DBA Wijenaike ; 4, Science, M D S A Wijenaike : 
5, Veterinary, C S Fernando ; 6 Dairying, M D S 
K Wijenaike. 
The following are the winners of the certificates : — 
£ W Jayatilleke, G S -layasinghe, F 0 J Fernando. 
THE CHAIRAIAN'a .SPEECH. 
The Chairman said, after some introductory 
remarks, that in Ceylon the very best reason for 
making a speecii was that one praotieally knew 
nothing of tiie subject on wliicli he was speaking. 
(Laughter.) He had been appointed on a great and 
awful Couiiniitee sitting to discuss the future of 
the Agricultural School. The Committee was 
<jompo8ed of men whose very titles would fill 
tbim with awe, aud if he divulged auy of their 
secrets he would probably be condemned to death 
by sealing wa.x or choked to death by red tape. 
Therefore, his hands were tied in that 
direction entirely. It was impossible to say 
what the futuie of the Agricultural School 
would be. But he would like to say something of 
its past. It was the hobby of a very old friend of 
his— Mr. H. W. Green. Mr. Green was a man on 
whom the vials of criticism were freely poured. 
People were very ready to criticise and to show 
how much better they could have done a thing 
themselvps. But there was this to say of Mr. 
Green — unlike certain other people, he attempted 
to do something. But few people realised what 
he had in mind, and when he started the Agricul- 
tural School people said he was trying to do an 
impossible thing— to improve agriculture in 
Ceylon ! Personally, he (Mr. Burrows) did not 
believe it was impossible. There were various 
methods of doing it, and people might differ very 
widely as to the best metheds to adopt, but the 
best way to set about it was to make some effort 
in some direction. Mr. Green did make an eflFort, 
and he deserved intense gratitude for the effort he 
made. Aud that brought him (the speaker) to 
the obvious conclusion that the gentleman to 
whom was entrusted the carrying out of Mr. 
Green's ideas leserved the fullest measure ot 
praise. It was not easy to carry on an institution 
to which help had not always been given. The 
School of Agriculture, however, had not wanted 
the energy aud perseverance of Mr. Drieberg. 
Tliose advant;iges had been most fully aud ably 
offered. Mr. Drieberg could lo«k back on the 
fact that he had trained 25 or 30 men who had 
taken to the career that was predestined for them 
and they were thoroughly creditable to the 
training they had received. Those present should 
all join in congratulating Mr. Drieberg most 
heartily upon the admirable work he had done 
in the school. 
MR. HARWARD'.S COMMENTS. 
Mr. Harward said that during a short tenure 
of the office of Acting Director of Public In- 
struction, it was a great pleasure to him to be 
very constantly, for different reasons, within 
those premises. In fact he became nearly as 
familiar with them as with those of the Koyal 
College. It was true he did not go there with 
any knowledge of the suliject of Agriculture 
proper, nor with any ideas to suggest to the 
Superintendent of the School. Mr. Drieberg was, 
however, kind enough to go very fully into the 
question of what his school course was, and how 
the time of the students was occupied, and he 
had formed the idea,— and still had the idea— 
that so far as hid opportunities went, and so far 
as means allowed and the existing C(mstitution 
of the school admitted, he was <loing his very 
best for it. He also received intiniation from 
the public press and elsewhere that considerable 
changes were contemplated with regard to the' 
school, and that, in fact, even a Commission was 
sitting, which was deliberating as to its future 
destiny. Of the verdict ot that Commission he 
knew nothing, but he hoped they might regard 
the present state of the School of AgriculTure, 
so far as Agriculture itself was concerned, as 
being in a chrysalis state, and that something' 
further would he done for it which would 
enable it to put fortii wings and assume the 
splendours of the butterfly, and let them 
hope, when it was in that condition also it would 
be associated with the able management of Mr. 
Drieberg. (Applause.) One thing was certain, 
