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THE  GOAT. 
Goat’s  flesh  more  closely  resembles  that  of  the 
! sheep;  it  is  usually  darker,  dryer  aud  tinner  iu 
j consistency.  The  fat  is  rather  scarce,  and  there  is 
t always  a distinguishing  odour. 
(To  be  continued.) 
IMPORTANT  LOCAL  DECISION  Rbi 
ADULTERATED  MILK. 
I The  following  reports  are  taken  over  from  the 
Ceylon  Observer  : — 
! A Case  of  Adultebated  Milk. — Tlie  case  in- 
l«  stituted  by  Color-Sergt.  Arnold  Hill,  against  a Sin- 
I halese  milk  vendor,  for  selling  adulterated  milk 
< containing  72  per  cent,  water,  was  taken  up  for 
(hearing  before  the  Police  Court  yesterday  after- 
noon. Amongst  the  witnesses  e.xamined  for  the 
^ prosecution  was  Col.  Tidy  of  the  Lancasl.ire  Uegi- 
t ment.  The  further  hearing  was  postponed  till 
I Monday  ne.vt,  when  the  Public  Analyst,  Dr.  II,  M. 
I Fernando,  will  be  examined  for  the  ])roseciition. 
I The  further  heai’ing  of  the  case  instituted  bj' 
I Col.-Sergt.  Hill  against  his  milkman,  for  supply- 
I ing  adulterated  milk,  was  taken  up  this  afternoon 
% before  the  Police  Court.  Dr.  H.  M.  Fernando,  the 
q public  analyst,  on  being  e.xamined  stated  that  he 
U analysed  a bottle  of  milk  sent  to  him  by  Col. 
B Tidy  on  the  27th  June  la.st.  The  bottle  contained 
I 70  per  cent  of  milk  and  30  per  cent  of  water.  This 
ID  milk  was  not  injurious  to  health.  It  did  not  con- 
I)  tain  added  sugar  or  other  foreign  matter.  In  cross- 
examination  he  stated  that  pure  milk  contained 
87  per  cent  of  watery  matter,  and  other  parts  con- 
sisted of  sachcharine,  nitrogenous,  and  inorganic 
substance.  The  complainant  on  being  recalled  stated 
that  he  paid  the  milkman  the  value  of  this  milk  at 
the  gnd  of  the  mouth,  long  after  he  was  aware  that 
the  milk  was  adulterate  1.  The  Magistrate  found 
that  no  criminal  charge  could  be  framed  against 
the  accused,  as  the  milk  was  not  injurious  to 
health,  and  as  the  value  of  the  milk  had  been  p id 
long  after  the  complainant  became  aware  that  the 
milk  was  adulterated.  The  accused  was  then 
acquitted  and  discharged. 
OCCASIONAL  NOTES. 
We  would  draw  attention  to  another  letter  on 
• the  subject  of  Coconuts  by  the  well-known  agri- 
cultural correspondent  “B,  ” and  regret  that  it 
! reached  us  too  late  for  insertion  in  our  last  issue. 
We  note  with  pleasure  that  it  has  been  decided  to 
hold  an  Agri-IIorticultural  Show  at  Nuwara  Eliya 
next  year,  and  that  a similar  project  is  talked  of 
in  connection  with  the  town  of  Matale.  The  more 
the  better,  say  we.  Why  not  a Show  in  Colombo 
also  ? 
H.E.  the  Governor  paid  a visit  to  the  School 
of  Agriculture  on  the  loth  July,  and  in.spected  the 
I various  branches  of  the  institution. 
A nice  crop  of  fruit  is  just  now  maturing  in  the 
vineyard  attached  to  the  School  of  Agriculture. 
Tlie  present  month  will  complete  the  first  year  of 
the  experiment  in  Viticulture,  which  has-  been  an 
important  one  for  the  colony.  We  learn  that  three 
gentlemen  (Messrs.  J.  H.  Barber,  II.  L.  Daniel, 
and  K.  Pieri.s)  are  cultivating  improved  varieties 
of  grapes  on  the  '•  Extensive  System.”  With 
better  conditions  as  regards  soil-moisture  than 
obtain  at  the  School  of  Agriculture  premises,  we 
shall  expect  to  hear  of  good  results. 
The  present  issue  contains  the  first  part  of  Mr. 
Sturgess’.s  contribution  on  “The  Inspection  of 
Meat,”  which,  when  complete,  should  form  an 
instructive  paper. 
A new  interest  has  sprung  up  in  Apiculture 
and  Sericulture,  and  a few  enterprising  spirits 
are  working  at  tliese  interesting  if  not  very  re- 
munerative industries.  We  note  that  .special 
prizes  are  offered  for  e.xhibits  in  illustrating  both 
bee-keeping  and  silk-worm  rearing  at  the  forth- 
coming i^ri-Horticultural  Show,  and  trust  that 
by  that  time  the  experiments  referred  to  will 
Iiave  sliown  tliat  the  natives  could  profitably  work 
at  these  home  industries. 
We  have  received  a copy  of  “The  Life  of  Ehela- 
pola  by  Mr.  T.  B,  Pohath  Kehelpannala,  late  a 
student  of  the  Colombo  School  of  Agriculture. 
The  pamphlet  forms  an  interesting  character  sketch 
of  a striking  personage  who  flourished  in  the 
last  days  of  the  Kandyan  dynasty. 
FOREST  LAiVS  OP  OF  CEYLON.— II, 
The  next  Ordinance  which  principally  affected 
Ordinance  No. 
D ot  iS7S,  wdiich  was  necessitated  owing  to  deci- 
sions of  the  Supreme  Court,  which  had  shown  that 
the  law  as  it  existed  in  1878  was  quite  inadequate 
tor  the  protection  of  timber  trees  grown  in  Crown 
forests.  There  were  two  processes  by  which 
Crown  forests  had  been  denuded  of  the  best  part 
of  their  valuable  timber.  The  one  was  the  illicit 
telling  of  timber  for  the  purposes  of  sale  and  re- 
moval; the  other  was  the  illicit  cultivation  of 
Crown  forests  for  the  purpose  of  temporary  crop 
during  the  process  of  which  cultivation  valuable 
trees  were  burnt  and  destroyed.  Illicit  felling  for 
the  purpose  of  sale  or  removal  was  punishable 
under  the  epting  law  ; but  the  Supreme  Court 
held  that  where  the  timber  was  destroyed  as  part 
of  the  process  of  cultivating  land,  such  destruction 
was  not  punishable  under  the  then  existing  Timber 
Ordinance  N o.  24  of  1848.  [P.  C. , Anuradhapura 
23;  P.C.,  Kegalla,  41,512. 
Ram.  (18/7)  69.]  Consequently  it  became  neces- 
sary in  order  to  protect  Crown  forests,  to  make 
provision  that  the  unlawful  destruction  of  timber 
should  be  punishable  for  whatever  purpose  it 
might  have  been  destroyed.  The  principal  object 
of  the^Ordiuance  No.  8 of  1878  was  the  enactment 
of  such  a provision.  Besides  the  object  just  men- 
tioned there  were  one  or  two  important  alterations 
in  t be  law.  One  was  that  the  definite  expression 
valuable  timber”  be  no  longer  used,  the  precise 
trees  to  which  the  Ordinance  applied  being  speci- 
fied in  the  Schedule.  Another  important  altera- 
tion made  the  law  applicable  to  the  destruction  of 
saplings  as  well  as  timber  trees.  This  Ordinance 
also  limited  the  punishment  by  fine  and  imprison- 
ment for  offences  against  the  Ordinance. 
