The work is urder the direction of Mr, J. G. Ledwidge, works manager and technical adviser of the firm, and working with him in the experiment station are Br. Koo, head gardener, and a staff of four Jdoners and five coolies. Forty mow of ground are under cultivation, and, well laid on: paths lead among the garden plots wherein to the casual! observer each variety and crop or! plant seems little different from its neighbour and all equally good. Under the guidance, however, of Mr, Ledwidge, it can be ascertained oon that there is a decided differ-fence in each plot. One may be in the process of the one kind of chemical fertilization, another may] spring from soil of a different mixture and still a third, known as the. "cheek" plot, may show the unmistakeable signs, upon observation, of no fertilizer at all. The check plot the pitiful example to compare unfavourably with the neighbouring, plots.
Although a visitor would have to be well informed in the varieties fertilizers and methods used to grasp the full context of the work going] on, certain points would be quite obvious to all. 'There is at the present moment a large area devoted' to tomato plants, which are the third' plant in a cycle begun before Christmas with cabbages on the same spot, followed by Irish potatoes until the end of June row giving way to 'a yield of luscious red tomatoes amounting to ten pounds to the plot per day. The area has a good reputation. " When Irish potatoes were in season it yielded 12 tons to, the aere of Arran Rose variety and 11.2 tons to the acre of King Edward' variety. The growing period re-_ quired was 95 days and another victory was ascribed to the commercial fertilizer. sesame ervp. It ranks next +9 the soya bean for yield of oil in importance, Chinese corn, beets which! were profusely grown this spring! and had no sale until their enormous size and weight of seven or ten [pounds declared them good for the} cattle only, cucumbers kanging from their upright vines, and a crop of ote, a plant belonging to the potato family and differing from the Indian [jute but used by the Chinese for making rope, range along the paths] side by side.
The rice cultivation ig of considerable magnitude and stands in a class by itself. Among the important discoveries recently here is that sulfad Dhate of ammonia used alone is as} good a fertilizer for the crop a mixture of chemicals, and that if paddy fields are used for the wheat crop following, potash and phosphate residual in the soil is excellent for the wheat. It has been learned, moreover, that phosphate and potash last for three or four years in the Other experimentation is being jearried on for results with S.M.C. sewage sludge, with cotton cake, bean, perimented from North Africa, Chi Island and the Chris fare included in the work of finding Jout the best chemical to be used.
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