THE 
SGRICULTURSL  mSGSZinG, 
COLOMBO. 
Added  as  a Supplement  MonthUj  to  the  “ TROPICAL  AGRIGULTURISTT 
The  Collowing  pages  include  the  Contents  of  the  Agricultural  Magazine 
for  October  : — 
Vol.  VIIL]  OCTOBER,  1896.  [No.  4. 
SEASON  NOTES. 
RSTEllN  lUiO  VINCE— Ysln  paddy 
crop  ripenings  and  harvesting  has 
commenced.  Emit  and  vegetable 
are  reported  to  be  scarce  in  the 
Jvalntara  and  Negoinbo  districts. 
Central  Province. — Yala  crops  are 
ripening  and  are  being  harvested  and  in  some  places 
fields  being  sown  for  Maha. 
6'toc/c.— Foot  and  mouth  disease  is  reported  from 
Udahewaheta  in  the  Nuwara  Eliya  district. 
Northern  Province.— in  paddy  fields  re- 
tarded by  want  of  rain.  Outturn  of  dry  grain 
unsatisfactory  owing  to  the  drought— tobacco 
fields  continue  low. 
Southern  Province.— Yn\a.  crops  reaped  and  the 
yield  middling  except  in  the  Ilinidum  Eattn  when 
it  is  poor  owing  to  unseasonable  weather.  Fruit 
and  vegetables  reported  scarce  in  the  Galle  and 
Ilambantota  districts. 
Eastern  Province. — Crops  being  harvested,  other 
in  ear,  results  satisfactory. 
Stoch.  - Foot  and  mouth  disease  is  reported  from 
Eatticaloa. 
North-Central  Province. — Yala  crops  Itave  been 
reaped  with  satisfactory  results. 
Stock. — Foot  and  mouth  disease  in  all  palatas, 
cattle  plague  in  all  x^alatas  except  Tamankaduwa. 
Sabaragamuira  Province. — Yala  croj)  being  liar- 
vested,  jirospects  fairly  good,  and  xdonghing  and 
sowing  for  the  JMalui  x'l’oceeding. 
RAINFALL  TAKEN  AT  THE  SCHOOL  Of' 
AGRICULTURE  DURING  THE  MONTH 
OF  SEPTEMBER 
, 1896. 
1 
Tuesday 
Nil 
19 
Saturday  . , 
•62 
2 
Wednesday . . 
Nil 
20 
Sunday  . , 
•18 
3 
Thursday 
Nil 
21 
Monday 
•42 
4 
Friday 
•04 
22 
Tuesday 
102 
o 
Saturday  . . 
Nil 
23 
Wednesday  . . 
•37 
6 
Sunday 
Nil 
24 
Thursday 
•20 
7 
Monday 
■56 
25 
Friday 
•01 
8 
Tuesday 
•10 
26 
Saturday 
•78 
9 
W’ednesday  . . 
2-20 
27 
Sunday 
Nil 
10 
Thursday  . . 
•31 
28 
Monday  . . 
•04 
11 
Friday 
•03 
29 
Tuesday 
■14 
12 
Saturday 
•10 
30 
Wednesday  . . 
.•26 
13 
Sunday 
•44 
14 
Monday 
Nil  Oct.  1 Thursday  . . 
3 02 
15 
Tuesday 
•Oo 
16 
Wednesday.  . 
Nil 
Total. . 
11-12 
17 
Thursday  . . 
Nil 
Mean , , 
•37 
18 
Friday 
•33 
Greatest  amount  of  rainfall 
in  any  hruos — 
on 
the  1st  of  October,  3 
02  inches. 
Recorded  by  M.  W.  K.  BandakA. 
« 
A SUPPLY  OF  SEEDS  AND  PLANTS  FOR 
NATIVE  CULTIVA’ORS. 
If  it  is  asked  how  the  Government  through  thtJ 
Agricultural  Branch  of  the  Department  of  Public 
Instruction  could  bcit  help  the  native  cultivator, 
we  would  be  inclined  to  say  that  it  is  by  giving 
him  facilities  for  procuring  seeds  and  plants. 
What  are  the  means  at  present  available  to  him  for 
securing  these?  Practically  none.  There  is  in 
fact  no  place  within  easy  reach  of  the  cultivator 
where  the  most  ordinary  seeds  and  plants  which 
yield  food  products  could  bo  procured.  Seeds  of 
grain  croji.s  and  seeds  and  xilants  of  fruit  trees  are 
what  the  cultivator  may  be  said  to  be  most  in  need 
