Supplement to the “ Tvopical Agvicultuvist.” 
[September i, 1890. 
230 
agricnlture. He must also be so trained in the 
sciences as to be able to explain the methods of 
acfricnlture. This is not asking too much, as the 
same thing is successfully done in many other 
branches of knowledge.” What the Agncultural 
(rnzette insists on is that the agricultural teacher 
not be expected to range beyond such limits 
as are placed on science, so as to include only so 
m\ich of it as he requires for explaining the princi- 
ples and phenomena of agriculture. 
The Law Journal for January 26th reports a 
case decided by Judge Barber at Bakewell, Derby- 
shire which is interesting from an agricultural 
noint of view, and teaches the lesson, that an oc- 
OTPier of land who does not fence for himself must 
take his chance of his neighbour’s cattle straying on 
his land, unless he can show by a long_ coarse_ of 
nractice that the occupier of the neighbouring 
k™d has not only repaired the fence but was 
for his neighbour’s advantage as well as 
Sn™. w“re Want of th. l.w „„ .hi, 
win. in Coyion. .. « 
those who are annoyed by trespassing cattle 
tiiose w hands 
generally take the ^a 
"llTo. .h«« 'r* " 
they do'not shoot th e poor an imals. 
.... vst to show,” says Professor 
..Let “the 
Drummond in bis^ ^^ termites bears upon 
vay m which the oeology of the tropics, 
the natural th?^ large point of 
Looking at the dues . noted is, that the 
view, the general _ „ . q{ perpetual motion, 
soil of the tropics i,s in^a^®ta^^.P^ ^ 
Instead of an upper baked hard as 
bv the autumn rains, ^ rinder soil hermeti- 
adaraant in the sun ; an . ^t, and inacces- 
callv sealed from the ai .^^annres derived from 
sible to all the natura . ^^^^gj.g_^Lese two 
the decomposition jn their relation to 
layers being externally hx continued 
one another — we have a , g taking place, 
transference of the predations, but to dis- 
Not onlv to cover their e underground 
pose of the earth excavate ^j^^tly transporting 
galleries, the termites are co surface, 
the deeper and exhausts ' ^j^^gtant circulation 
Thus there is. so to ^p„bing and harrow- 
of earth in the tropics, a p o . clod, but. 
iug.not furrow bv furrow 
pellet by pellet and gram by g 
„ 'n TTomeMagazine in en- 
Tbe NaHnnal Farmpr and . ..pheasant phases 
tbnunstic terms vwites thus ot t that -the 
of farm-life” His a commo 
Farm and farm bfeare uoiapP™m 
We long for the more ®HgantP farmer has 
and fashions of 1he pafion and ought 
11, e mosf- sane f^ud rational o- than any 
to find lid'SU’uuHr,if\esshigMy^^^ borne, 
ntbor. lie alone, strictlv -1 ' thrive without 
linn- can a man Him root I 
land'-- He writes his histoiy ,^ . ipg 
,p.,pv tiec. bow many W jus 
fnendddns wi'h his p;^p,g crops, m his 
trees; t be satidaction lu U nature, with 
imnroved fields, his ,^p,p,ntalf^^^^^^ 
bird and beast and ^ the sun, the 
his co-operation wth tholclouas, 
seasons, heat, wind, rain, frost. Nothing will 
take the various social distempers which the city 
and artificial life breed out of a man like farming, 
like direct and loving contact with the soil. It 
draws out the poison. It humbles him, teaches 
him patience and reverence, and restores the pro- 
per tone to hie system. 
Dr. De Laval whose cream separators are 
now so well-known wherever dairying is 
carried out on a large scale, has invented 
an Instantaneous Butter-maker. Hitherto it has 
been generally held that a speed of more than 60 
revolutions per minute was fatal to the making 
of good butter, hut since the Plymouth Show 
it has been shown that butter of the very 
highest quality can be produced by the Instan- 
taneous Butter-maker, the dasher of which 
revolves at the rate of 3,000 revolutions per 
minute. As a cheap and very simple labour-saving 
machine, and one that will enable any one to pro- 
duce, at all times, a uniform and first-class quality 
of butter, it.s introduction to the dairy public at 
the Royal Agricultimal Society’s Show may well 
1, Caterpillar. 2, Chrysalis. 8, Moth (Depressainav 
Cocos Nucifera). 
[The illustration of the coconut-leaf caterpillar 
which we are enabled -to lay before our readers 
this month was drawn from life by J. P. 
Alanchanayeka, a student at the Agricultural 
School. We are indebted to him also for most of 
the other illustrations appearing in these pages.] 
. It would be interesting to ascertain how many 
broods of the coconut-leaf caterpillars are pro- 
duced in a year, and we shall be obliged to any 
of our readers for information, as to how many 
times a year the blight appears on trees. Tlie 
.scorched 'appearance of coconut tree.s in Captain's 
Garden and oth-er parts of Colombo is also due to 
tills caterpillar. 
Before any definite suggestions could he made 
by way of prevention, it is desirable that more 
information about the life history, habits, &c., 
of the insect be gained. In the meantime it may 
be mentioned that the natural enemy of this 
