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The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon March 1939

1939

Apart from the actual loss of the stored product directly due to insect attack the transference of infested beans from the warehouses to chcolate factories leads to the liberation of moths in the latter buildings with the resultant danger of infestation of manufatured chocolates and cocoa. [...] The course followed by the cured cacao of these two main classes of producer from the up-country drying floor to the exporting vessel in Colombo is not the same and consequently it was necessary for the inquiry to proceed140 along two lines one to trace the produce of the small-holder and the other that of the estates. [...] Transport in this way of an experimental bag of small-holders' cacao does not reproduce the course normally followed by small-holders' cacao ; but the method serves the purpose of the present investigation the determination of the sources of Ephestia infestation. [...] The results of the analysis of the above series of samples by the British Association of Research for the Cocoa &c. [...] The results of the analysis of this series of samples by the British Association of Research for the Cocoa &c.
agriculture environment
Pages
66
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.120021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Editorial
139-140 unknown view
The Sources of Ephestia Infestation of Stored Cacao in Ceylon
141-155 M. Fernando view
The Influence of Spacing Ridging and Seedling Number Per Hill on The Yield of Chillies (Capsicumfrutescens L.)
156-162 W.R.C. Paul, M. Fernando view
A Note on the Coconut Caterpillar in the Batticaloa District
163-164 J.R.C. Backhouse view
Conclusions and Recommendations of the Conference of Colonial Directors Ofagriculture Held at the Colonial Office in July 1938
165-175 unknown view
The Development of the Cashew-Nut Industry in India
176-185 unknown view
Soil Nutrition
186-188 unknown view
The Settlement of Educated Men on the Land
189-191 unknown view
Rubber Research Scheme (Ceylon)
192-194 unknown view
Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of the Tea Research Institute of Ceylon Held in the Committee Room of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on Thursday December 22 1938 at 2.30 P.M.
195-197 Roland Norris view
Review
198-200 unknown view
Animal Disease Return for the Month Ended February 28 1939
201-201 T.M.Z. Mahamooth view
Meteorological Report February 1939
202-202 H. Jameson view

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