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The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon May 1939

1939

While the importance to science of the prevention of every species of animal from becoming extinct or even of its preservtion in natural conditions is undeniable there is an aspect of this problem which does not appear to receive sufficient notice from the un-imaginative town-dweller but is of vital importance to the inhabitants of the village in the jungle and to the officers of Government [...] The only method of reconciling these claims with the rights of man appears to be the strict delimitation of the boundaries of the domains of man and of beasts. [...] The altitudinal range of the forests falling within this region is variable ; in the Matara and Galle Districts it is generally restricted to below 750 feet while in the Kalutara District the range is considerably more extending almost to the limits of the second peneplain (1 600 feet). [...] The colour of the rock varies from a dark grey in the more acid series to dark greyish-black in the case of the basic series. [...] This classification confirms the tentative conclusion arrived at by Joachim (7) in his studies on some forest soils of the wet low-country that " the degree and rate of growth appear to be conditioned by the consistency"278 and disposition of the gravel constituents in the B and C horzons ; " the actual analytical composition of the soils (exmined) does not vary very appreciably".
agriculture environment
Pages
79
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.120021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Editorial
261-263 unknown view
Soils of the Wet Zone Forests of the Matara Galle and Kalutara Districts
264-vii R.A. Rosayro view
A Multiple Seeded Variety of Rice (Oryza Sativa L.)
279-i G.V. Wickramasekera view
Some Suggestions for the Control of the Citrus and Mango Fruit-Fly (Dacus Ferrugineus)
281-287 J.C. Hutson view
Plant Import Legislation in Ceylon
288-301 J.C. Hutson view
Calendar of Work for May
302-304 T.H. Parsons view
Rejection of the First-Drawn Milk
305-307 unknown view
Food in the Tropics
308-312 unknown view
Minutes of the Forty-Seventh Meeting of the Rubber Research Board Held in the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Building Colombo at 2.30 P.M. on Wednesday March 15 1939
313-315 unknown view
Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of the Tea Research Institute of Ceylon Held at the Grand Oriental Hotel Colombo on Friday March 31 1939
316-322 unknown view
Review
323-324 D.D. Paterson view
Animal Disease Return for the Month Ended April 30 1939
325-325 unknown view
Meteorological Report April 1939
326-326 unknown view

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