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The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon June 1935

1935

The future will probably see the establishment of small plants on estates for the direct application of latex there in the manfacture of certain articles of commerce. [...] Owing to the natural tendency of the leaves to adopt a drooping habit and of the plant to display itself to best advantage when in bloom the best receptacles for them are longitudinal sections of the Giant bamboo or tiles of similar pattern. [...] The total of the products of the percentages of each constituent and their respective factors gives a figure which represents the texture of the soil called the 'texture index number' or specific area. [...] On the basis of the silica/alumina molecular ratios the soils are definitely of the laterite type the ratios varying from 0.75 to 0.85. [...] The following are the main points to observe in dealing with new trees and old trees: NEW TREES (i) The tip of the main stem must not be removed until the plant has attained the desired height.
agriculture environment
Pages
65
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.120021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Editorial
312-313 unknown view
The Area under Budded Rubber in the Netherlands East Indies
314-320 P.J.S. Cramer view
Notes on Orchids Cultivated in Ceylon
321-322 K.J. Sylva view
Studies on Ceylon Soils III.— the Red and Yellow Earths and the Wet and Dry Patana Soils
323-334 A.W.R. Joachim, S. Kandiah view
Road Trees
335-341 unknown view
Pests of Rice
342-344 unknown view
The Destructor Scale
345-346 unknown view
Gullies— How to Control and Reclaim them
347-352 unknown view
Review
353-353 unknown view
Coconut Research Scheme (Ceylon)
354-355 unknown view
Minutes of the Meeting of the Central Board of Agriculture
356-369 unknown view
Village Settlements under the Peasant Proprietor System and Colonists’ Settlements under the Pasdun Korale East Colonisation Scheme
370-373 E.A. Peiris view

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