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each tree in the usual way, gives an increased crop, 

 varying from two to five cwts. per acre, according 

 to the soil and climate, and its effect lasts from 

 two to four years." In 1868 a sub-committee of 

 the Ceylon Planters' Association, appointed to con- 

 sider the manure question, recorded their opinion 

 that " cattle manure is par excellence the best and 

 most lasting, the effects remaining over two to 

 three years." Mr. Arnold White, in an Essay on 

 the same subject, written in 1875, remarks in refer- 

 ence to the foregoing extracts, " The lapse of 

 years has added little or nothing to our knowledge 

 of the subject." Mr. J. H. Wilson, Analytical 

 Chemist of Bombay, in a letter written in the same 

 year for the Ceylon Observer, thus writes, "Ever 

 since coffee planting, or I may say since farming 

 commenced, and in every part of the globe, there 

 has been but one opinion respecting the value of 

 farmyard manure, and when the amount of crop 

 obtained by the use of cow-dung or farmyard 

 manure is compared with that obtained where the 

 ash or mineral ingredients of an equal quantity of 

 the same manure was used, it is evident that the 

 use of cattle manure effects something more than 

 the restoration of ash constituents to the soil." 



In fact all experience proves that there is no 

 manure superior to, if indeed there is any equalled 

 by, the product of the cattle-shed. It evidently 



