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Supplement to the " Tropical Agriculturist." [June 1, 1904. 
Average Yield per tree 1 have taken at 28 
Ibf. as a safe estimate, individual trees here 
at eight years having yielded more than double 
that quantity. 
Cost of Land has not been taken into con- 
sideration, as it is hoped that the Government will 
see its way to give a free grant of say 1,000 acres 
to encourage a new product for the hill country, 
and which would eventually bring a large traffic 
to the Eailway in the shape of bark and firewood. 
Failing a free grant, a lease might be obtained for 
say 10 or 15 years. The Australian rate for Crown 
Lands leased for Wattle cultivation was in 1891 
four pence (4d.) per acre. At that rate, the rent 
for 100 acres for eight years would amount 
to R?. 200. 
Locality, — In order that the experiment should 
have a fair chance of success, the locality chosen 
should be between the Ambawella and Nanuoya 
■Stations in one block, above the railway line for 
facility of transport, and should include a pro- 
portion of jungle laud for the supply of fencing 
posts, etc. 
Fund?. — A Syndicate with a nominal capital of 
(Rs. 100,000) One Hundred Thousand Rupees, 
with a paid-up working capital cf (Rs. 20^000) 
Twenty Thousand Rupees, would be required to 
start the enterprise, say in one thousand shares 
of (Rs. 100) One Hundred Rupees each. 
A. J. KELLOW. 
Albion, Nuwara Elliyo, 
17th March, 1902. 
Estimate for clearing and planting with Acacia 
decurreus 100 acres, each acre carrying 1,200 
trees six feet apart=120,000 trees, weeding for 
two years, probable yield and cost of harvesting. 
To Clearing 100 acres at Rs, 20. Rs. 
per acre ... ... 2,000 
Lining 6x6, holing, planting 
and shading at Rs, 10 ... 1,000 
„ Nursery including cost of 
20 lbs. seed ... ... 500 
„ Weeding 1st year at Rs. 1-50 1,800 
„ Tools Rs. 200, Lines Rs. 200, 
Reading Rs. 160, Fencing say 
Rs. 1,000 ... ... 1,560 
,, Supervision Isfc year ... 2,000 
„ 2nd year's Weeding atRs. 1 25 
= Rs. 1,500, Supervision and 
Manuring Rs. 1,000 ... 2,500 
„ 2nd supplying vacancies at 
Rs. 3 ... ... 300 
Supervision and Watchers for 
5 years at Rs. 1,000 ... 5,000 
Unforeseen expenses, repairing 
Lines, Fence, &c. ... 1,340 
Showing an expenditure to end o£ 
7th year of ... Rs. 18,000 
To 8th year temporary Lines, 
Bark Shed, &c. ... .,. 2,500 
,, Stripping, Chopping and Cur- 
ing 1,500 T. Bark (=28 lbs. 
per tree from 120,000 trees) 
at Rs. 20 per ton ... 30,000 
Cartage to Railway Station 
at Kb. 2 ... ... 3,000 
,, Railway Freight on 1,500 tons 
Nanuoya to Colombo at Rs. 25 37,500 
Eb...91,000 
Cr. 
By 1,500 tons Bark at £6 per ton 
in Colombo £9,000 at Rs. 15 135,00 
,, Value of 120,000 trees for 
Fuel at 50 cts. each ... 60,000 
Balance profit ... 104,000 
Total... Rs 195,000 195,000 
A. J. KELLOW, 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
A country gentleman, who has had consider- 
able experience in the rearing of cattle, recom- 
mends the following as an unfailing remedy for 
unthriftiness, arising chiefly from worms in 
calves ; — Pound five or six leaves of the Papaw 
(Carica papaya) and mix with about half a cup 
of water to enable the juice" of the leaves to be 
expressed ; scrape the kernel of half n coconut 
and squeeze out the milk ; take one-third of the 
mixture of the papaw juice and coconut milk 
together with a table spoonful of gingelly 
{Sesamum indicuni) oil for one dose ; dose at 
intervals of about 12 hours or so. The antlel- 
mintic properties of the papaw are well 
known, and - we are assured that they will be 
here proved by the speedy expulsion of the 
worms, with the result that the calves vsrill soon 
be found thriving well and putting on flesh 
rapidly. 
Of all evil-smelling vegetable products, per- 
haps the most intolerable is the oil of Margosa 
{Azadirachta indica). The antiseptic properties of 
the oil are .well known locally, and it is largely used 
in cases of sores and ulcers and such inflammatory 
diseases as "foot and mouth" disease; but it 
may not be commonly known that Margosa, 
(also called JKohamba) oil is a protective against 
white ants, though there are many people who 
will hesitate, before employing the remedy, in 
doubt as to which is the lesser evil! A good 
story has just reached us of how Margosa 
timber was found to be proof against white ants. 
It was Prof. Drummond, we think, who said 
that if a man with a wooden leg fell asleap in 
Central Africa, he would on awaking find his 
artificial limb a heap of sawdust. But apparently 
that eminent traveller and divine did not know the 
Margosa tree which is now so largely grown in 
India (along the railway line between Madras and 
Bombay) and in Ceylon {eg., the Chilav? district) 
both for its excellent timber and also for its 
supposed anti-malarial properties, so proving a 
rival to the Eucalyptus. In a town not far from 
Colombo, says the story, there lived u usurious 
individual who stowed away all his mortgage 
deeds and bonds in a box made of Margosa 
wood. One morning the owner of the chest, 
who had not been able to examine it for some 
time o wing to absence from home, found to his 
horror that the assiduous termite had erected his 
dome-like edifice over the said box, which was 
thus almost hidden from view. Much did the 
usurer weep and gnash his teeth over his impend* ' 
