For the purpose of cattle-feeding, manures, etc., etc.

In addition to this, it would vastly affect the price of salt fish (the staple article of native consumption), and by the reduction in cost of this commodity there would be a corresponding extension in the trade.
The hundreds of thousands of hides which are now thrown aside to rot uncared for would then be preserved and exported, which at the present rate of salt is impossible.

The skins of buffaloes, oxen, deer, swine, all valuable in other parts of the world, in Ceylon are valueless.

The wild buffalo is not even skinned when shot; he is simply opened for his marrow-bones, his tail is cut off for soup, his brains taken out for cotelettes, and his tongue salted.

The beast himself, hide and all, is left as food for the jackal.