February i, 1892.] Supplement to the ^' Tropical A gncultunst." 611 
" Stock-owners would do well," says the Indian 
Agriculturist, to cut out and preserve the follow- 
ing recip6, which is an excellent ointment for 
woimds in horses and other stock. It is known 
as "green ointment." Take lard 6 oz., yellow 
resin 1 oz., Venice turpentine 1\ oz., accetate of 
copper 1 drachm. Melt the resin and copper 
(with a small piece of the lard to prevent burn- 
ing) in an iron ladle, and the lard and turpen- 
tine in a hotwater bath : mix all together when 
thoroughly melted. As it cools add 2 drachms 
of turpentine and stir occasionally. 
Land surveying is said to have had its origin 
in Egypt more than a thousand years before 
the Christian era, where the annual inundations 
of the Nile, and the consequent large depo,sits 
of mud, destroyed the landmarks of the differ- 
ent proprietors. It therefore became necessary 
to determine these landmarks by measurement, 
or to lay out the proper quantities of land claimed 
by the several proprietors irrespective of their 
landmarks thus destroyed. 
An extensive slip of land — over fifty acres in 
extent — was reported to have occurred on Kanda- 
nuwara Estate in the Matale district. The un- 
commonly heavy rains in January no doubt ren- 
dered the underlying rock soft and incoherent 
by the action of the increased underground flow 
of water, while the steepness of the land must 
have greatly aided the sliding down of the 
surface soil. 
Mr. Abeyesekere, a student of the School, 
has brought for our Museum a number of eggs, 
of absurdly small size, laid by an ordinary 
country hen. The smallest of these is less than 
half-an-inch in diameter. 
On the 18th, a cow at the School dropped 
two calves — one fully formed and alive, the 
other a dead foetus, a few inches in length and 
imperfectly developed. 
Mr. James Storrey, of Kansas City, claims that 
the artificial production of eggs at a pheno- 
menally cheap rate is now an accomplished fact, 
and he is proving his own belief in his conten- 
tion by erecting a large factory to work the 
invention which he has patented for the pro- 
duction of artificial eggs. The raw material 
which he uses for the production of artificial 
eggs are lime water, bullock's blood, milk, tallow, 
peas, and a few other odds and ends, including 
some chemicals, the nature and composition of 
which are known only to the inventor. The machi- 
nery used by this egg manufacturer is said to be 
very ingenious. The yolk is first run in a mould, 
and then placed in a second matrix containing the 
proper proprotion of the albuminous substance 
which stands for the white, after which the 
whole is covered with a shell made of lime water 
and glue, which hardens after it is set. Mr. 
Storrey guarantees that his artificially-made 
eggs will keep ' new laid ' for a month, and 
that the total cost of this production is so low 
that they can be retailed at Ijd per dozen. 
