The Tea Soils Of Assam And Tea Manuring

Author : Harold H. Mann
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ISBN 13 : 9781332330805
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book The Tea Soils of Assam and Tea Manuring (Classic Reprint) written by Harold H. Mann and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tea Soils of Assam and Tea Manuring The successful production of any plant or any vegetable products is influenced for good or for evil by a number of conditions, Soil, climate, "breed," of plant, conditions of culture, prevalence of pest and blights, may each play a preponderating role in deciding the possibility or impossibility of profitable growing a plant in a given situation. But among these natural conditions there is perhaps none (except that of climate - and this is entirely beyond our control) which plays a more fundamental part in determining the character of the cultivated plants in a country or a district than that of the soil. Its character in England, for instance, determines whether land shall be devoted to wheat or to barley, to turnips or ti some other root crop, to pasture or to arable culture. In Indian likewise, entirely apart from climatic questions, it determines the paramount suitability of a district for rice, for millet, for cotton, for sugar or for tobacco. Its influence is not less paramount in the case of tea. In many parts of the tea district it might be said that every condition has been favourable except that of soil, but as a result if bad soil conditions in certain Assam districts garden after has passed entirely out of cultivation. It might be thought that the essential importance of a suitable soil was too obvious to need that stress should be laid on it, but I have noticed quite a number of pieces of tea put out during the past three years in total ignorance of the character of the subsoil - which really proved to be very unsuitable, - and also in positions where the tea can never flourish nor do well. Such incidents seem to indicate that there is room for insisting on the soil requirements of the tea bush, and for further investigating those soil conditions which answer the purpose best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.