Abstract

Our readers will remember that, at the time of the last College Day His Excellency the Governor accompanied by the Zemindars and some of the Departmental officers made a visit to the cattle farms of the Pattagar of Palayakottai. In his monthly report for July Mr. Carruth states that the Pattagar had lately made a small begin- ning to cross the Kangayam and the Mysore breed and that his object in doing so was not at present clear and ascribes the failure to elicit the point to be mainly due to (1) the very large number of questions asked by the visitors in a very short time and (2) the failure of interpretors to understand the questions asked in English and, therefore, to the failure of conveying to the Pattagar the correct impression in Tamil, the obvious result being an incorrect reply to the questions asked.

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