CHAPTER XCIJI, 



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JADOO FIBRE. 



i'lDEFQRE concluding the subject of manures, it will be 

 ; ,welLto mention a highly fertilizing general manure 

 ;>which;goes by the name of ' Jadoo fibre,' ?>., magic-fibre. The 

 foundation of this fertilizer is absorbent peat-moss to which 

 .the following ingredients are added ; soot, pink gypsum, dis- 

 solved bone-meal, nitrate of potash, soda and sugar, in 

 various proportions, according to the crop to which it is to 

 .be applied. The manurial ingredients are first boiled with 

 a sufficient quantity of water. The boiler is then filled with 

 peat-moss in a dry state, and the whole is kept at boiling 

 temperature for half an hour. The moss is then taken out 

 and stacked; to it is added yeast, and the mass is kept 

 jfermentuig for .a month or six weeks in a moist state, after 

 which, it is lit for use. The boiled manurial substances 

 without the peat-moss is called Jadoo liquid. Colonel 

 Halford Thomson, F. R. H. S. of England is the inventor of 

 Jadoo, and since its invention a Jadoo Company has come 

 into existence and factories established in England, France 

 and the U.S. A. The Philadelphia Company has arranged to 

 turn out 8 tons of Jadoo fibre and 1000 gallons of Jadoo liquid 

 .per day. We might in this country try elephants' dung as 

 the;substratum In place of peat-moss. 



) 964. The way Jadoo fibre acts is by encouraging the 

 growth of surface roots without interfering with that of 

 the tap-root. Having been subjected to boiling, all grubs 

 and germs of parasites are destroyed, and being placed at 

 the base of each plant soon after- germination, it acts as 

 a mulch and a protection against the attack of parasites, 

 keeping the soil underneath moist and acting as a manure. 



