ilQ Supplement to the "1 
(9) Provide a pump capable of emp- 
tying the sewage tank. 
(10) Repair the present buildingjs. 
(11) The Public Works Department to 
be put in charge of the buildings. 
(6) To improve the apparatus : — 
(1) Provide new cans. 
('2) Provide a better milk cart. 
(3) Provide a sterilizer for the milk. 
(4) Provide a chaffing machine, 
(5) Provide a machine for crushing the 
cotton seed if it can be obtained. 
(6) Provide a boiler for producing 
boiling water to scald the cans. 
(7) To study the milk carefully ; — 
(1) A cream and specific gravity register 
should be kept and observaiions 
on bulk milk made daily and on 
individual cows from time to time. 
(2) Simple analysis of the bulk milk 
to be made at least twice a month 
from the morning and the evening 
milk for at least a year, so that 
the variations of the milk may be 
known. 
(3) That a few analyses be made of the 
(a) salts, (b) cream, in order to see 
whether the present analyses re- 
presented the average milk. 
(c) To move the Dairy. That after careful 
consideration a piece of available land near the 
main line of the railway be selected and experiments 
made and the following points investigated :— 
(1) Analyses of the soils. 
(2) Experiments with good grasses. 
(3) Investigation of water supply. 
(4) Trial of Sind cattle on the selected patch. 
(5) The production of a pasture and the 
growth of fodder grasses. 
(6) Again, the trial of some of the cattle on 
the pasture and the fodder produced. 
(7) The erection of a model dairy on modern 
lines. 
(8) The milk to be sterilized and sent by rail 
to destination. 
(9) The whole institution to be put under 
the supervision of an agriculturally 
trained man. 
(10) To try to improve Sinhalese cattle, as in 
such an institution it would possibly 
be cheaper to rear than to import cattle. 
We hove carefully "considered these poiats, and 
t^e are of the opinion that the Government of 
Ceylon should possess a doiry which should be a 
model to the inhabitants of the Island, and that to 
let matters alone is not to be advised. We consider 
tossibility (i) as too expensive. We are of the 
opinion that possibility (c) done after due consider- 
ation and with care is the best and cheapest, for 
the whole cost of the experiment, the new buildings, 
the removal, and evfen if necessary the purchase 
of land, though we would rather advise that avail- 
able Government land be used, could be met by 
Belling portions of the Model Farin and of the 
i)aiiy land, botl) of which are extremely valuable 
and liicreasing yearly in value as building lots. 
"\Vfe consider that the suggestions contained in 
opicat A gricuU uris V ' [April 1,1 904': 
this report should be subjected to the experimental 
tests indicated therein, in order to see whether 
they work satisfactorily in practice, and we 
feel that upon these, or upon such lines as the ex- 
periments may finally indicate, the Dairy Bhould 
progress year by year. 
We are of the opinion that the main fault of the 
Dairy is the poverty of its soil, and that this soil 
cannot be improved without a very heavy expen- 
diture, and that Government should seriously 
consider the advisability of moving the Dairy to 
some more suitable locally and of making a model 
dairy, 
ALBERT J. CHALMERS, 
G. W. STURGESS, 
SOLOMON SENEVIRATNE, 
Dairy Committee, 
September 26, 1903. 
TETERINARY ITEMS. 
Prof. Taylor says that our views as to the 
actual cause of contagious pneumonia must be 
modified since Liguieres' researches. The diplo- 
coccus of Schutz, which was given as the 
organism responsible (and which has been 
shown to be identical with the sheptococcus 
of strangles) intervenes only secondarily. The 
Pasteurella organism prepares the lung tissue, 
and the diplococcus of Schutz which is present, 
without causing any lesion, in the healthy 
becomes parthogenic. It inviides the lung and 
produces its characteristic effects. It is a 
secondary infection ; then on top of this 
secondary infection we have a tertiary one 
in the shape of gangrene. 
The connection between contagious pneumo- 
nia and strangles in the way referred to above 
has hardly been recognised. Whether an attack 
of strangles protects a horse against pneumonia, 
Prof. Taylor is not prepared to say ; but certain 
interesting facts showing the relation of the two 
diseases cannot be overlooked. For instance, as 
a horse gets older he becomes more immune 
to strangles, and similarly he seems to become 
less liable to be attacked with the same organ- 
ism causing pneumonia. 
A paper read before the Veterinary Medical 
Society, London, treats of the effects of Sewage 
upon animals, producing what may be called 
" Sewage poisoning," which shows itf elf in many 
types of disorders that either remain untraced 
or are attributed to other causes. The moral 
of the paper is that care should be taken to 
prevent the occurrence of stagnant water or 
putrid effluent matter on farms, especially 
where milch cattle are kept. It is suggested 
that treatment in such cases should extend to 
the system, and in addition to an oleaginous 
purgative and a little creosote, stimulants and 
quinine or saiycine should also be administered, 
Crtpt. Lean in the British Mediml Journal 
remarks that it is interesting to follow the 
developemeut of tbe ancieot prejudice agaiust Aies 
