April, 1910.] 



309 



Edible Products. 



pen manure applied to section 6, except 

 that it cost £2 for application. The cost 

 of applying manure to the other sections 

 was only 2s. to 2s. Gd. per acre. In 

 section 7, only £3 los. was spent on 

 manures. The same amount was spent 

 on every section for cultural work, i.e., 

 £8 lO.s- for the period from April, 1907, to 

 August, 1909. The figures given in the 

 table of results are for the period of two 

 years' crop— September, 1907, to August, 

 1909, inclusive. 



It will be observed that the yield of 

 the control section increased by 1£ bags 

 in the first year over the previous 

 average yield of the field. This, pre- 

 sumably, was due to the forking and 

 bedding. With the exception of Nos. 1 

 and 7, all the sections dropped one bag in 

 the second year. 



The experiments tend to prove the 

 great advantage which accrues from 

 manuring even good, bearing cacao, and 

 that an average yield per acre of 5 bags 

 of 180 lb. each, which most planters agree 

 is excellent, can be easily increased by 

 50 per cent., leaving a big increase in 

 profits to the planter. They also prove 

 the superiority of T. S. G. cacao manure, 

 and show that it is the most profitable 

 complete manure that can be used 

 for cacao. 



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17 134 



A RUSSIAN METHOD OP CORN 

 CULTIVATION. 



(From the Journal of the Board of 

 Agriculture, Vol. XVI., No. 9, 

 December, 1909.) 



A method of glowing corn has recently 

 been advocated in Russia which, al- 

 though it is not likely to be suitable in 

 cultivating large areas in this country, 

 might prove useful in growing corn for 

 seed or other special purposes. It has 

 also been suggested that it might be 

 adopted by small holders, as it would 

 enable them to grow a heavier and 

 better crop on a small area. 



The method, which, broadly speaking, 

 depends on the careful cultivation of 

 each individual plant, is not new, as it 

 has often been proposed in the past in 

 this country, and constitutes the ordin- 

 ary practice in China at the present 

 day. The large amount of labour 

 required makes it inapplicable for ordin- 

 ary corn growing except in countries 

 where labour is very cheap and very 

 plentiful. 



The author of the system (M. Demts- 

 chinsky) states that farming in Russia is 

 giving more aud more unsatisfactory 

 results, and in consequence famines, 

 formerly of rare occurrence, have be- 

 come less common. The number of live- 

 stock in the country is not enough to 

 provide sufficient manure, while the 

 introduction of a rotation of crops 

 apparently presents great difficulties, so 

 that it is necessary to find some other 

 means of increasing the low average 

 yield of corn. 



For this purpose he suggests the 

 practice of earthing-up, or alternatively 

 that of deep-setting or transplanting, 

 the object in any case being to develop 

 root-action and increase the tillering 

 power, so that a greater return is 

 obtained. 



In the case of earthing-up, the land 

 would be prepared in the usual way, and 

 the sowing done Dy a hand or horse drill, 

 a little artificial manure being applied, 

 if possible, at the same time. The drill 

 should be arranged so as to sow three 

 rows 2>\-i\ inches apart, leaving a dis- 

 tance of lOi-14 inches between each third 

 row to give room for working. The 

 greater distance is necessary when a 

 horse hoe is to be employed. 



About a month after sowing, when 

 the young plant has appeared and 

 begins to send out shoots, the first 

 earthing-up should be done. This stage 

 is a critical one in the field of the plant, 

 and by heaping up the earth round it 

 the plant is protected from drought, 

 frost, and other unfavourable influences, 

 the tillering shoots multiply and the 

 roots develop to a very greater extent 

 than they otherwise would. 



The process of earthing-up may all 

 carried out with a machine like a smbe 

 hand hoe or cultivator, the tines of 

 which are arranged so as to throw the 

 earth between the rows over the plants 

 on each side, while the outside tines 

 cover the outside of the rows. A. simple 

 instrument suitable for working three 



