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REPORT ON MANURE EXPERIMENT AT CINNAMON HILL. 



The canes experimented on were old ratoons cut in January 1902. 

 The land was well forked in June and the manures applied early in 

 July, 1902. The canes were again cut in February, 1903, with the 

 following results. Each plot was one-tenth of an acre in area. 



It will be thus seen that the two plots not manured turned out the 

 best, which was the experience on these estates in dry years. 



The juice of the non-manured canes stood 8° Baum^, and of the 

 manured 7°, by the estates' test. This low test is due to a fall of 14 

 inches of rain in the last week of 1902 after a long period of drought 

 but it is noticeable that the manured canes shew worse than the 

 others in density of juice also. There were many suckers among the 

 canes (weighed along with the bad canes) and the proportion was much 

 greater than usual owing to the conditions mentioned before. The 

 rainfall was : — 



(all in the last week) 



34.35 for the twelve months. 



