Scientific Agriculture. 



534 



[June, 1912. 



Place. 



Extent of 

 each plot. 



Single seedling 

 transplantation. 



Local transplanta- 

 tion. 



Percentage of 

 increase by former 

 practice. 



Grain and 

 straw. 



Grain. 



Gram and 

 straw. 



Grain. 



Grain and 

 straw: 



Grain. 





oq. it. 















T 1,1 1 1 C 



ijakkavalli 





1,872 



472 



1,472 



462 



27 



2 



i euahalli 



4,500 



1,473 



Not 



1,287 



Not 



14 







Threshed 



Threshed 







Agumbe ... 



1,525 



228 



169 



19(5 



148 



16 



14 



iNdoaia 



D,OiD 



503 



347 



462 



317 



9 



9 



Megarvalli 



950 



360 



264 



290 



174 



24 



32 



Nalur 



950 



400 



150 



225 



75 



77 



100 



Ajjamkere 



2,700 



360 



257 



350 



227 



3 



13 



Tirulebile 



4,648 



423 



297 



396 



263 



7 



13 



An examination of these figures shows 

 throughout an increase of crop as a 

 result of transplanting single seedlings. 

 In two cases, the difference has been 

 very large indeed but. as in these cases 

 the demonstration plots were very small 

 (about l-50th acre), the figures lose a good 

 deal of their value. However, in the 

 other cases the difference in yield has 

 been quite sufficiently marked to show 

 clearly the superiority of single seedling 

 transplantation and many of the land- 

 holders on whose lands these demon- 

 strations were carried out have expressed 

 their intention of going in for this 

 method of planting on a large scale 

 during the coming season. 



Green Manuring Demonstrations, 

 The green manuring demonstrations 

 were carried out on a larger scale, an acre 

 being sown with the green manure seed 



(Sunn hemp) in all cases where the returns 

 are at present available, The plots 

 given by the owners for sowing the 

 green manure seed were usually very 

 poor ones that had little or no manure 

 the previous year. In the demonstra- 

 tions here recorded, the green manure 

 seed was sown almost immediately after 

 the paddy harvest in December— January 

 and was ploughed in after the early 

 spring rains and ploughed in a week or 

 so before transplantation. In the ex- 

 treme west of the State, the early spring 

 rains are rather uncertain and where 

 there has been a delay in sowing the 

 green manure crop owing to failure of 

 early rains, it is likely to be drowned 

 out by the heavy monsoon rains in the 

 first or second week of June. This is 

 the reason why the seed was sown soon 

 after the harvest of the paddy. 



The Available Results are given in the following table :- 



Place variety 

 of paddy. 



Period 



of 

 growth 



Extent of 



green 

 manured 

 & check 



plots acre 



Yields on green- 

 manured plots 



Yields on Check 



plots under 

 local treatment 



Percentage 

 increase by 



green 

 manuring 



Grain and 

 straw 



Grain 



Grain and 

 straw 



Grain 







Acres 



lbs. 



lbs. 



lbs. 



lbs. 





Yedahalli ... 



178 



1 



17,416 



Not 



12,432 



Not 



40 











Threshed 





Threshed 





Agumbe 



186 



1 



7,500 





5,600 



>i 



34 



Nabala 



188 



1 



5,627 



3,060 



3,376 





66 



Megarvalli ... 



188 



1 



10,685 



3,975 



9,780 



3,620 



9 



Tirulebile ... 



191 



1 



4,823 ' 



2,327 



3,564 



Not 



35 











Threshed 





