FAEMINa ON THE HILLS. 
lean cattle from the coast cheap, remove them to the 
station, and with a little care and attention, without 
any great expense, why should they not become sleek 
and fat, ready for the butcher too ? They would then 
sell for double or treble the price they originally cost. 
If my memory serves rae aright, Messrs. Kellow and 
Cotton adopted this plan on a small scale, with great 
success. The potatoes that grew there were very much 
superior in qualitv to those grown in Nuwara Eliya : 
they were much drier; and thel cabbages, although 
not 90 large, of very much finer quality. These 
gentlemen purchased land in the forest immediately 
behind Wilson’s Bungalow, on which, they were not 
content with growing potatoes and vegetables, but 
also planted coffee, which, when last seen by me, 
appeared to be very promising. . But I have since 
heard the promise was not realized, and it eventually 
did not turn out well; it could not have been the 
fault of the soil, than which none could be better : 
I suspect it was the climate, a little too high in 
elevation, for it. was certainly cold there, before the sun 
got up. 
Let the practical result of coffee planting at Wilson’s 
Bungalow not be lost sight of by ‘‘the fellow who 
said it.” Why should not my own idea of starting a 
stock station even yet be taken up, and of course 
improved upon, by some others, by some who have a 
good idea of stock? The want of water may be 
urged, but there is plenty on the adjoining forest 
ranges, where the Australian plan might be adopted of 
having a home station, growing all sorts of vegetables, 
Indian corn, &c., and the stock driven out occa- 
sionally to the far-off “runs,” The same drawbacks of 
transport would not exist now, with a railway to 
Gampola, and I should suppose a good and steady 
market would always be found in Colombo and 
Kandy for fat beef, mutton, pork, poultry, and all 
sorts of vegetables. The failure of the Nuwara Eliya 
farm ne^^d not deter anv practical man, for is it 
not a fact that some of the original subordinates 
ill the undertaking have done very well . made money, 
and retired from Ceylon, but in somewhat the same 
way, only on a smaller scale, than what is here 
proposed, and since it has been proved to answer 
and be remunerative on a small scale, why not 
equally so on a large one, that is always provided 
the demand will not be under the siippl^^ ? I should 
think not, but on the contrary the greater the supply 
the more also would be the demand. It has always 
been one of the great complaints of the Island, the 
want of a full, regular, aud cheap supply of vegeta- 
