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will puddle in the rains and dry hard when they cease ; (3) the value 

 and necessity of a thorough deep hoe in the early part of the cold 

 and dry weather, which keeps the lower subsoil moist, and causes 

 valuable weathering of the upper layer, One cannot exaggerate the 

 value of a good deep hoe, when long dry weather is expected on 

 such a soil as this, On sandy land the matter would assume a 

 totally different aspect, but here it is essential. 



It would be wise to have the several parts of this Bishnauth 

 bank, which are ten years old and over-treated, in rotation with top- 

 dressing soil, or in its absence with mustard cake (10 12 maunds 

 per acre), followed two years afterwards by mati kalai as a green 

 manure, the mustard cake being again applied six years after the 

 first application, and the rotation being so continued. This is land 

 on which the system of trenching recommended on page 21 would 

 probably be very successful. 



Below the bank of red soil there lies a little tea on land very 

 similar to that nearest the river at Tezpur. It should be dealt with 

 by similar methods. 



The belt of sandy soil so evident between the Tezpur bank and 

 the Himalayas is also in existence north of the bank at Bishnauth, 

 but in the best cases it is, I fancy, much deeper in the latter case, 

 Dikorai, one of the best gardens in the Bishnauth Tea Co., lies upon 

 it, and there the soil gave the following analyses, No, I being virgin 

 and No, II having been many years under tea. 



