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With regard to manures for sugarcane, the 

 village compost, containing an admixture of night- 

 soil and village -sweeping, will be about the best 

 and cheapest manure available to the Indian ryot. 

 The following give the results obtained by manuring 

 with different composts for sugarcane : 



BOMBAY, March 1874. 

 From 



The HON'BLE F. S. CHAPMAN, 



Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. 



For the information of the Government of India. Re- 

 sults obtained from experiments with various manures 

 made by the Superintendent, Government Botanical 

 Gardens, at this Presidency : 



EXPERIMENT WITH MANURES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL. 



The field on which the experiments were made was the 

 deep black soil that is common in the Deccan. The 

 ground had been slightly manured the year previous ; in 

 1873 the ground was prepared by ploughing several times, 

 and laying up in ridges, as is the custom for planting 

 sugarcane in this country ; plots were marked off 

 10 yards wide, and the manures applied to every alternate 

 plot, the alternating plots being left without manure. 

 Artificial manures and guano were applied at the rate of 

 4 cwts. per acre estimate cost per acre, Rs. 28 ; night- 

 soil, 10 tons per acre estimate cost, Rs. 20; village 



