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slope, these were weakly plants and this combined with the adverse con- 

 dition of the soil made this plot very nearly a failure. The plants received 

 water twice a week up to end of April and on May 12th, June 12th and 

 July 5th. 



" Weeded May 1st, May 17th, May 28th, June 11th, July 9th, and August 

 15th. No manure. 



Plot No. 5 — " Planted April 19th eighteen inches apart each way, with 

 fairly good roots, grew to an average height of three feet six inches. 



" The white variety growing in the same plot but in the shade, averaged 

 a height of five feet, but whereas the green variety averaged 7 inches to 

 the root, the white only averaged three. 



" This plot had no manure but was watered twice a week to end of April* 

 and on May 15th, June 13th and July 7th. 



" Weeded May 23rd, June 8th, July 4th and August 11th. 



Plot No. 6.- Planted April 24th in rows two feet apart and one foot 

 between the plants in the row fairly good plants which grew very well 

 indeed, averaging 7 feet in height, received no manure, but the soil was 

 good, watered twice a week to the end of April and on May 12th, July 

 11th and August 13th. 



"Weeded May 22nd June 7th, July 4th and August 10th. 



Plot No. 7. — " Planted April 26th 3 feet apart each way on good soil, no 

 manure, roots only fair at time of planting, these grew to an average height 

 of four feet 6 inches averaging ten canes to a root. 



w " Watered twice a week to end of April and on June 11th July 4th, July 

 11th and August 13th. No record was kept of the weeding of this piece. 



" The average height and the number of canes per root were all cal- 

 culated at the end of September when the Kamie was fit for reaping. 

 From the fact of the machine not appearing on the scene, the trial of the 

 Ramie as regards the time it would take to produce a second crop was 

 spoiled, for it was not cut down as soon as ripe, as it should have been, 

 but the old canes were kept waiting for the machine. Had it been cut 

 down before the October seasons set in a second crop would have been 

 ready for retting by the end of November but it was not cut down until 

 February, when the weather was very dry and has continued to be so. 



" No 7 piece was however ready for reaping by May 14th, the growths 

 however averaged barely 3 feet in height. This was tue in a great measure 

 I now believe to the way in which it was cut down in February. The 

 stalks then were all spoiled by being over grown and no care was taken 

 in the cutting of the crop it being billed off with a cutlass. The majority 

 of the stalks were cut off about 4 or 5 inches from the ground, and these 

 old stalks shot out from near the tops. But receiving instructions from 

 the Director to propagate Ramie in large quantities, I went over this piece 

 again and rooted all the ends of the cane out in order to plant them for the 

 production of young plants. A small digger or spud was used and the 

 canes were grubbed from half an inch to an inch below the surface of the 

 soil, throughout the whole piece. Then the whole of the piece was well 

 flooded with water, and the next day a quarter of an inch of rain fell and 

 within the next two weeks four inches of rain fell, and the result was 

 that 46 days after cutting down there was a beautiful crop of stalks two 

 and a half feet high, averaging fully twenty four canes to the root. 



" The gruund on which the whole of the Ramie was planted was tho- 

 roughly well ploughed and broken up, and with the exception of the piece 

 of land on which No. 1 was planted was good rich land. 



" From experience gained in this planting I think there is little reason 

 to doubt that the best part of the plant to propagate from, is the bottom of 



