. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . JAVA 297 finally the furrows for the seed are dug. These furrows are gen-erally thirty feet long, from twelve to eighteen inches wide,twelve or fifteen inches deep and four or five feet apart. Theearth displaced in digging is piled up between the prepared, the field is left exposed to wind and sun forabout six weeks and at the end of this period the heavy wetclods have crumbled into a gray or light-brown powder. Dur-ing the drying-out process the grass has to be removed re-peatedly, and in case of rain, t
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . JAVA 297 finally the furrows for the seed are dug. These furrows are gen-erally thirty feet long, from twelve to eighteen inches wide,twelve or fifteen inches deep and four or five feet apart. Theearth displaced in digging is piled up between the prepared, the field is left exposed to wind and sun forabout six weeks and at the end of this period the heavy wetclods have crumbled into a gray or light-brown powder. Dur-ing the drying-out process the grass has to be removed re-peatedly, and in case of rain, the soil that is washed down intothe furrows is thrown back upon the ridges to prevent the fur-rows from silting up. The hard bottom of the furrow isloosened or square holes are dug in it and filled with loose of the earth on the ridges is thrown into the furrow andthe field is then ready for planting. Before the outbreak of the sereh, seed for new plantationswas obtained exclusively from tops of ripe cane, but when thedisease became prevalent, it was found that
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