316 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



of carbohydrates and albuminoids, and those 

 who visited the stand of the Potash Syndicate 

 at the recent International Rubber Exhibition, 

 London, will remember the cross-sections of 

 the coco-nuts, where a striking difference in 

 the amount of meat was shown between those 

 nuts from the manured and unmanured plots. 

 The results from these experiments are just 

 to hand. They were carried out in Ceylon 

 by Mudaliyar A. E. Rajepakse, Alexandra 

 Coco-nut Estate, Jaela. Both plots received 

 four baskets of cattle manure of inferior quality, 

 and one received in addition per tree : 



6 Ib. ... ... ... Bone meal. 



3 ,, ... ... ... Castor cake. 



2 ,, ... ... ... Fish manure. 



3 ,, ... ... ... Kainit. 



i .". Sulphate of potash. 



15 Ib. per tree. 



The " No manure " plot gave on an average 

 twenty-two nuts per tree, whereas on the 

 "fully manured" plot the average was fifty- 

 one nuts per tree. Not only was the yield per 

 tree more than doubled, but the quantity of 

 meat or flesh in the kernels was also consider- 

 ably increased. 



We have been assuming that we are dealing 

 with newly formed plantations, but the case is 

 quite different when we come to deal with old 

 plantations which may have been neglected for 

 a considerable number of years. The vitality 



