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The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon June 1937

1937

On the one hand all the time and all the energy of the Department had to be directed to the one purpose of eradicating rinderpest : on the other the knowledge that at any time an epidemic of rinderpest might kill off his herd did not encourage the farmer to undertake the improvement of his live-stock. [...] The administration report of the Madras Civil Veterinary Departthent for the year 1935-36 contains the statement that it is thought that the loss amongst sheep and goats in oubreaks of rinderpest is considerable." The Annual Report of the Sind Veterinary Department for the preceding year records that in one outbreak of rinderpest in Hyderabad district 200 sheep and goats were affected of whic [...] In the infected lot the disease could pass gradually and almost unnoticed from animal to animal and the larger the number of animals in the consignment the larger could be the period over which the infection might exist." The public however wants goats' flesh; and Ceylon cannot supply the demand at present. [...] Thus the light sands and loams of the Puttalam and Marawila districts the lateritic loams of the Uva and NortWestern Provinces the limestone-derived loams of the Jaffna and Nalanda series the Pleistocene red earths of certain parts of the Southern Province the heavy alluvial loams and even the hard gravelly soils of the Western Province have all been cultivated (though not in all cases to a [...] Thornton has demonstrated that both the calcium phosphate and the skim milk stimulate the formation of the motile coccus stage of the bacterium and so increase the chance of successful inocultion.
agriculture environment
Pages
66
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.120021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Goats and Rinderpest
329-330 unknown view
The Propagation of the Mango in Jaffna—II
331-337 W.R.C. Paul, S.C. Guneratnam view
Studies on Ceylon Soils
338-350 A.W.R. Joachim, S. Kandiah view
Preliminary Experiments on Soya Inoculation in Ceylon
351-358 Malcolm Park, M. Fernando view
Tropical Fruits and Vegetables.An Account of Their Storage and Transport
359-380 unknown view
Correspondence
381-383 unknown view
The Coconut Industry in New Guinea
384-388 unknown view
Award of the Maynard Ganga Ram Prize
389-390 unknown view
Reviews
391-391 unknown view
Efficient Production of Cacao
392-392 unknown view
Animal Disease Return for the Month Ended May 1937
393-394 unknown view

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