Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot
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for farmyard manure.
The comparative cost of farmyard manure and top soil. Remarkable result from an application of pink-coloured soil. If top soil costs the same as farmyard manure the former is better. Reasons for this being so. A compost of pink soil and manures may be made, which will equal good farmyard manure, and cost but little more. The manurial value of pulp, and of dry fallen leaves. Manurial value of green twigs of trees, ferns and wood ashes. Night soil. Lime. Bonedust. Fish manure. Oil-cakes. Proportion of phosphate of lime in castor cake. Nitrates of potash and soda. Potash. A manure of doubtful value in the case of Mysore soils. Attempt to ascertain value of potash as a manure for coffee. How to grow young plants in old soils. Coprolites, discovery of, in Mysore. An agricultural chemist wanted for the province. A careful record |
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