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The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon October 1936

1936

FUTURE EXPERIMENTS The replies to the questionnaire indicate that there is a general belief as the result of experience that the growing of cover crops has definite advantages such as reducing the cost of weeding and maintaining the healthy appearance of the palms. [...] The final decision is usually dependent upon the estimated cost per acre of the undertaking and not the least item of the estimate is the fencing of the new clearing. [...] The transplanted plants develop in the same way whilst they are in the nursery ; at the end of 6 weeks however they are pulled bodily from the nursery bed and the majority of their roots broken in the process. [...] The result of this movement is not only to cause the existing broken roots to branch and renew theselves but also to stimulate the production of new roots from the surface of the underground portion of the claim which is now exposed to conditions suitable for the production of advetitious roots. [...] As foreman of the paddy area he was not only in general charge of the cultvation of the experiment but had also the responsibility of taking the samples without the subsequent pleasure of working out the results.
agriculture environment
Pages
73
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.120021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Editorial
195-196 unknown view
Tobacco Cultivation on the Alluvial Deposit of the Mahaweliganga
197-201 W.P.A. Cooke view
Questionnaire on Cover Crops and Green Manures (in Relation to Coconut Cultivation)
202-209 M.L.M. Slgado view
Green Fencing for New Rubber Clearings
210-212 J.D. Farquharson view
Studies on Paddy Cultivation-VII
213-233 J.C Haigh view
Notes on Orchids Cultivated in Ceylon
234-236 K.J. Sylva view
Cinnamon
237-244 J.C Drieber view
Cotton Cultivation at Maho
245-246 E.J. Livera view
Methods of Improvement in Crops: Improvement by Hybridization
247-256 unknown view
Rubber Research Scheme (Ceylon)
257-259 unknown view
Reviews
260-263 unknown view
Animal Disease Return for the Month Ended September 1936
264-264 M. Crawford view
Meteorological Report-September 1936
265-265 H. Jameson view

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