AGRICULTURAL mAGAZIDG, 
COLOMBO. 
Added as a Supplement Monthly to the " TBOPIGAL AQRICULTUBIST:' 
March 
The following pages include the Conlents of the Agricultural Magazine for 
Vol. 
X.] 
MARCH, 1899. 
[No. 9. 
SEASON EEPORTS FOE JANUARY, 1899. 
ESTERN Province— Paddy. Maha 
harvest begun. Crop prospects 
good. Rainfall fair. A few cases 
of murrain iu Kalutara District. 
Central Province. — Paddy Hear- 
ing harvest, prospects fair. Rainfall sufficient. 
A few cases of raurruin in Garapola. 
Northern P;-o«mce.— Paddy. Harvest begun in 
some places, prospects good. Rainfall, 1-65 in- in 
Jaffna, 2-53 in Mannar. Murrain in Mullaittivu. 
Southern Province.— Fo.ddy. Maha harvest in 
progress and yield good. Rainfall, 4-28 in. in Galle 
Health of cattle good. 
Eastern Province.— enddy. Harvest prospects 
good in Triucomalee, some damage by rain in 
Batticaloa. Rainfall, 7 in. in Trincomalee, 1-5 o5 
in. in Batticaloa. Cattle healthy. 
North- Western Province. —Paddy. Prospects of 
crop good except in a few places where rain has 
been exce.«sive. Cattle murrain still lingers in tlie 
Kurunegalla district, though not prevailing to any 
great extent. 
North-Central Province— I'.^ddy- Maha culti- 
vation commenced in Anurad.iapura district. 
Rainfall, 5 05 in. Health of cattle good. 
Province of Uva.—V>iddy. Yala harvest going 
on, prospects good. Rainfall at Badulla 16 89 in. 
Hen It h of cuttle good. 
Province nf Snhnrar/nmuwa.—'P'xMy, Croj) pro^s- 
pects favoiirnbk'. Ri.infall at Kinvanwella 4-78 
in., 0-78 in. at Ambanpitiya. Cattle murrain still 
liiUjers in both Ratnapura and Kegnlla districts. 
RAINl^ALL TAKEN AT THE SCHOOL OF 
AGRICULTURE DURING THE MONTH 
OF JANUARY, 1899. 
1 
Sunday 
•28 
18 
2 
Monday 
•22 
19 
3 
Tuesday 
•4 
20 
4 
Wednesday . . 
Nil 
21 
5 
Thursday . . 
Nil 
■22 
6 
Friday 
Nil 
23 
7 
Saturday 
Nil 
24 
8 
Sunday 
Nil 
25 
9 
Monday 
Nil 
26 
10 
Tuesday 
Nil 
27 
11 
Wednesday . 
, Nil 
28 
12 
Tluirsday 
Nil 
29 
13 
Friday 
Nil 
30 
14 
Saturday 
. Nil 
31 
1-5 
Sunday 
. Nil 
1 
16 
Monday 
Tuesday 
. -23 
17 
. Nil 
Wednesday 
Thursday 
Friday 
Saturday 
Sunday 
Monday 
Tuesday 
Wednesday 
Thursday 
Friday 
Saturday 
Sunday 
Monday 
Tuesday 
Wednesday 
Nil 
Nil 
Nil 
Nil 
Nil 
2-64 
Nil 
Nil 
Nil 
Nil 
■57 
Nil 
"2 
•15 
•02 
Total. .4-43 
Greatest amount of rainfall in any 24 hours 
on the 23rd inst. 2-64 inches. 
Mean rainfall for the month '14 in. 
Recorded by Mr. J. A. G. RoDRiao. 
IMPORTANT LETTER REFERRING TO 
LOCUSTS. 
We have been favoured with an interesting 
letter with refertnce to the destruction of 
locusts by Mr. Lounsbury, the Government Ento- 
mologist at tlie Cape. 
It will be remembered that the visitation of 
spotted locusts was the subject of a spi-ciai Cii'cul.ir 
itsued from the Botanic Gardens. Though locust 
visitations have hitherto not i)roV''d so serious 
in the past, it would seem that there is a ten- 
dency for tlie pests to appear in Inrijcr nuinliiii 
