The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon March 1935

These diseases are the chief obstacle to the use of cattle of European or Australian breeds for the purpose of improving the breed of cattle in the low-country. [...] This was the state of affairs when in 1907 the Journal of the American Society of Agronomy commenced publication and led the way in the study of more refined methods of experiment. [...] This has been so in the realm of experimental technique so that in studying the modern period it is more advantageous to regard the subject from the point of view of the unfolding or fruition of a method without undue adherence to the actual sequence of events. [...] For example in a varietal experiment with crops such as Student examined the data may be classified in the form of the eight varietal means and also in the form of the twenty means of the replicate blocks. [...] THE MUSCOVY GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS The head is large and at times it raises the feathers in fan shape ; the beak is thick with a band of reddish colour the nostrils and the face being covered by carunculated flesh ; the eye is brown ; the neck is thick and Of a fair length.