Table 12. Number of Days for Vegetative Growth 

 and Maturation. 



On the whole these southern local crops have a somewhat 

 shorter period for their vegetative growth in the northern climate, and 

 their maturing process is completed in a shorter period than in their 

 native locality. This might seem to run counter to the general 

 observation that vegetation matures earier in southern climates. Yet 

 the fact that the life of the rice plant is shorter in the northern part 

 of Formosa than in the South, is due lo the temperature during the 

 actual rice crop season being higher at Taihoku than at Akow, as 

 shown in the following table : 



Akow, |SJ^, is 245 miles south of Taihoku. 



