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with very much increased manurial value, We might have for 

 instance : 



ist year One ton cattle manure per acre in April, sow mati kalai in May, hoe in 

 in June. 



2nd year Nothing. 



3rd year Five tons cattle manure or lo maunds oil cake in April, sow mustard in 

 May, hoe in in June. 



4th year Nothing. 



5th year As in the 1st year, and so on. 



There lie in this district occasional gardens on small banks of 

 raised soil surrounded by rice land. Such a garden is Rajmai- 

 They may well be treated by the methods recommended for the 

 Bishnauth and Tezpur banks. 



JORHAT DISTRICT. 



The conditions above described, in general, practically reach 

 west to the Jhanzie river. Beyond this the low teelas skirting the 

 hills and bearing tea seem to be no longer found, and gradually 

 the land suitable for tea extends further and further out into the 

 plains, till at Jorhat there occur a special bank or series of banks of 

 sandy land for many miles towards the river. There is found here, in 

 fact, the first of a series of ridges, which from this point on to the 

 Dhunsiri run from the hills towards the river Brahmaputra, The 

 Jorhat ridge forms one of the deepest, most friable, and sandiest 

 sections of Assam tea soil. The analyses attached show how sandy 

 it is, and to what extent exhaustion has taken place during long 

 growth of tea : 



