COLOMBO. 
Added as a Supplement Monthly to the " TBOPIOAL AGRICULTURIST." 
July 
The following pages include the Contents of the AgricuUaral Magazine for 
Vol. XIIL] 
JULY, 1901. 
[No. 1. 
OURSELVES. 
HE present number of the Agn'^ 
cultural Magazine begins a new 
■volume. With the issue of the 
last number, the publication com- 
pleted the 12th year of its exist- 
ence, and is therefore now entering 
upon its 13th — a good age for a Ceylon Magazine. 
There may be ventures of a similar character 
that have been carried on for longer periods, 
but we fear that these will be found to 
have passed through occasional seasons of hiber" 
nation, wliile our own monthly has appeared for a 
dozen years witlioiit a break. A bound collection 
of past volumes should, to the local agriculturist? 
prove as full as the prov erbial egg ; and in 
saying this we make no boast to ourselves, though 
we would wish to impress upon those for whom 
we labour (with no recompense to speak of) 
that they are bound to learn much and to derive 
much help by taking in the Agricultural Magazine, 
the subscription to which is the modest sum of 
Rs. 3 per annum. We have endeavoured with 
each new volume to increase the usefulness of 
its contents to our readers, and we hope to make 
the present volume still more useful by furnishing 
information on home industries and practical hints 
connected therewith, in addition to papers con- 
cerned with practical Agriculture and Horti- 
culture. 
*We take this occasion, on the opening of 
a new volume, to thank our contemporaries for 
their kind countenance and our readers for their 
support and eucouragemeut. 
THl] EDITOR, 
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RAINFALL TAKEN AT THE SCHOOL OF 
AGRICULTURE DURING THE MONTH 
OF JUNE, 1901. 
1 Saturdajr 
2 Sunday 
3 Monday 
4 Tuesday 
5 Wednesday 
6 Thursday 
7 Friday 
8 Saturday 
9 Sunday 
10 Monday 
11 Tuesday 
12 Wednesday 
13 Thursday 
14 Friday 
15 Saturday 
16 Sunday -u^i m 
^ • • Total.. 6-79 
r, Mean., '21 
Greatest amount of rainfall registered in Q4 
hours on the 8th inst. 1-53 inches. 
^Recorded by u. DRiEBiiRG. 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
The Queemland Agricultural Gazette rpfers tn 
the decision of the Ceylon Government to carrv 
on agricultural work though rural ^cb\au l-I 
connected school gardens as ''a step tmaTd^i 
Let us hope that tLe_progre.3ion will co'^nt. 
The village industry of desiccating the pulp and 
seeds of thejak fruu is large, than is ge erailv 
supposed ; in tact, though most people are famU 2 
with he jak nuts that have been dr/ed Jnd 
stovyed away m sand-treatment wJiich permit, 
0 the seeds being kept for future use, and^whTh 
at the same time improves their flavour- 
few have probably seen the sun-dried m.lt> 
dned with or without previous boiling whiih 
IS a convenient form of reserve food to be 53 
and cooked (like apple chips) whenevec reqS 
