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on banana estates where the trash is saved for that purpose, and 

 on one estate blankets are imported and used for wrapping in 

 order to save the trash for mulching. The idea has also been 

 drilled into the minds of small settlers, and in Manchester, for 

 instance, the people cut grass and bush along the road-sides, or 

 ask leave to go on a property to cut fox-tail grass. 



It is very interesting to find now that Dr. Watts has made care- 

 ful experiments to test the value of a mulch of this kind as 

 compared with various manures in Dominica, and the results, 

 given in the Agricultural Report of that island for 1904-5, confirm 

 our opinion of the value of the practice. The special part of the 

 report dealing with this subject is given below : — 



CACAO MANURIAL PLOTS. 



" Dr. Watts, C.M.G., Analytical and Agricultural Chemist for 

 the Leeward Islands, has summed up the results of the Cacao 

 Manurial Plots at the station for the past three years as follows : 



"In 1900, a plot of cacao, about if acres in extent, was divided 

 into five plots for manurial experiments as follows : — 



" The cacao trees were about ten years old and planted about 

 18 feet apart. The chemical manures were applied once in each 

 year, from 1900. 



" The weight of wet cacao has been recorded for each of the 

 years ending June 30, 1903, 1904, and 1905. The results are as 

 follows : — 



* Reports on the Botanic Station, Agricultural School, and Experiment Plote, 

 Dominica, 1901-5. Imp. Dcpt. of Agriculture for the W. Indies. 



