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[On the noticeboard, someone’s copied out a veritable wall of text. It appears to be someone’s treatise on farming.]
Excerpts from “A HANDBOOK OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE”
COTTON
A wide range of soils is suitable for cotton, which does surprisingly well on a poor soil though heavy clays are not good. If manuring is too liberal, the plants may run to leaf rather than lint production. The following details would be typical of cotton cultivation in a tropical country where it is grown as a rain-fed crop. Spacings vary from 3 ft. by I ft. to somewhat wider. Close spacing promotes earliness, and hence is often useful in avoiding pest damage. Four to five seeds per hole may be planted, not more than 3/4 in. deep; 10 lb. seed per acre should be ample.....
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Excerpts from “A HANDBOOK OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE”
COTTON
A wide range of soils is suitable for cotton, which does surprisingly well on a poor soil though heavy clays are not good. If manuring is too liberal, the plants may run to leaf rather than lint production. The following details would be typical of cotton cultivation in a tropical country where it is grown as a rain-fed crop. Spacings vary from 3 ft. by I ft. to somewhat wider. Close spacing promotes earliness, and hence is often useful in avoiding pest damage. Four to five seeds per hole may be planted, not more than 3/4 in. deep; 10 lb. seed per acre should be ample.....
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