Cane sugar; a textbook on the agriculture of the sugar cane, the manufacture of cane sugar, and the analysis of sugar-house products . Fig. 37 The combustion of the vegetation on new land is from one point of viewentirely wrong, for the practice robs the soil of most of the nitrogen that has. Fig. 38 been accimiulating for ages past; but the expense of burying the vegetablematter, the slowness of its decomposition, and the harbouring places itaffords for noxious insects are the reasons brought forward for maintaining this 126 CHAPTER VIII practice ; in addition, the burning of the vegetable ma
Cane sugar; a textbook on the agriculture of the sugar cane, the manufacture of cane sugar, and the analysis of sugar-house products . Fig. 37 The combustion of the vegetation on new land is from one point of viewentirely wrong, for the practice robs the soil of most of the nitrogen that has. Fig. 38 been accimiulating for ages past; but the expense of burying the vegetablematter, the slowness of its decomposition, and the harbouring places itaffords for noxious insects are the reasons brought forward for maintaining this 126 CHAPTER VIII practice ; in addition, the burning of the vegetable matter places in the soila large amount of readily available mineral plant food. After the land has been cleared in those countries which employ landcarriage, roads wide enough for carts to pass are made through the newsections, and the area divided up into convenient fields ; the land is preparedfor cultivation by ploughing, either by manual, animal or steam hand labour is employed, the soil is merely turned over by forks orshovels ; in other cases the whole area is ploughed, cross-ploughed and horse-hoed, and the soil properly broken up and aerated. British Guiana.—In British Guiana and the Straits Settlements, whichare flat alluvial countries, a somewhat more complicated
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