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or estate-made compost, or any other bulky substance, 
a hole should be dug about 18 inches long and 9 to 
10 deep and broad: made in a semi-circular form, 
round and above the tree. It may be placed at 
either side or below the tree; but above is generally 
more convenient, and less liable to suffer from wash. 
Fill this hole and cover it up. Another mode which 
many planters prefer, and which where the soil is - 
rich and free, is doubtless also a good plan, is to 
make a square hole between every 4 trees, of say 20 
inches by 15, or 18, at the discretion of the manager. 
By this process you are less liable to cut the feed- 
ing roots than by cutting near the stem—while on 
the other hand if the tree be seedy and poor, it 
may not extend its roots so far as to reach the hole 
in the centre. In that case to deposit the manure 
within 9 to 12 inches of the stem will be found the 
most beneficial process. If it be artificial manure 
such as Bones, Poonac, Superphosphates, Gaano, Som- 
breorum, or any other concentrated manure, a much 
smaller hole will do. If the land be flat and there 
be no wash, 3 inches in depth will suffice. In this 
way you will disturb very few of the feeders, but 
will just deposit the manure above them and cover 
it up. The hole for this kind of manure will be 
made round the stem and close to it. Should the 
land be steep, you had better make the hole 6 inches 
deep and press the earth down on the top of the 
manure; or the wash may undo the beneficial effects 
of the dose, by carrying away the manure entirely. 
To discuss the various Kinds of Manure now in vogue 
would require a treatise for itself, and I cannot there- 
fore enter upon it here. But those I have named 
are a very fair selection of the kinds in most com- 
mon use, each of which has its advocates, and there 
are many more, of which experience will teach the 
young planter the kind most suitable to his soil and 
circumstances. For further information on the differ- 
ent kinds of manure in use among planters, and the 
modes of application, I quote the first Report of a 
Sub-Committee of the Planters’ Association appointed 
by that body to consider the manuring question, and 
which Committee is still sitting :— 
Proceedings of a Meeting of the Sub-Committee, appointed 
tr October 1868, to consider the Manuring Question 
held in Kandy, on Wednesday, 1st September 1869, at 
12 noon. 
Present—Messrs. A. BRown, W. Bowpzrn Smiru, W. 
D. Grppon and the SECRETARY. 
1. Mr. W. Bowden Smith was requested to take the chair. 
2. The Secretary then proceeded to read draft of the 
proposed report. The draft having been carefully consi- 
