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6th year Cattle manure 5 tons per acre, or preferably mustard cake 10 maonds per 



acre, with i 2 cwt. per acre of superphosphate. 

 ;th year Matt kalai as in the 2nd year. 

 8ih year Nothing. 

 9th year Nothing, 

 loth year Matt kalai as in the 5h year, and so on. 



The whole of the land under tea from Heeleaka on the west, to 

 Noakachari on the east, could well be treated by the above method. 



A few miles to the west of the district just discussed is a ridge 

 of much heavier character embracing Duflating, Panbarrie and 

 Moabund, and perhaps several more gardens. Although it contains 

 pieces of sandy land, yet, as a whole, it is a finely divided, rather 

 heavily working loarn. The following analyses show its general 

 character : 



If the burial of prunings will be advantageous anywhere, it will be 

 probably worth doing in non-blighted pieces of tea on this group of 

 gardens, combined of course with basic slag or with the application of 

 quick lime to the buried prunings (see page 97), At any rate every 

 effort should be made to lighten the character of the soil and subsoil. 

 Sau trees will be advantageous. So will the burial of green 

 manuring crops, as also cattle manure, Oilcake has been advan- 

 tageously used. 



GOLAGHAT DISTRICT. 



To the west of Moabund are found a series of ridges, or remnants 

 of ridges, of red soil, which are rich and excellent for tea. Nigriting 

 lies on the extremity of one of these ridges, which includes^with 



