Identifier: cottonotherveget00goul (find matches)
Title: Cotton and other vegetable fibres : their production and utilisation
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Goulding, Ernest, 1870-
Subjects: Cotton growing Textile fibers
Publisher: London : Murray
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ther hand,a swampy soil and excessive atmospheric humidityare by no means necessary ; the crop can be grownwith success on land that is never flooded, providedthat the soil is kept moist by rain or irrigation. It isdesirable, however, that there should not be muchheavy rain, especially at the time of sowing and duringthe early part of the season. The best conditions arealternate sunshine and rain ; excessive rain is notharmful after the plant has reached a height of two orthree feet. When there is water standing at the rootsor covering the land, the plants tend to producesurface roots, which injure that portion of the stemon which they arise and consequently render the fibreless valuable ; drought, on the other hand, causes theplants to be stunted, and in dry districts the fibreproduced is harsh, woody and brittle. Soil Jute can be cultivated on almost any kind of soil;but lateritic and open gravelly soils, and light sandysoils, are unfavourable. Clay soils give the largest PLATE VIII
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From the Collections of the Imperial Institute Jute (Corchoriis olitorius)132) JUTE CULTIVATION 133 yields, but it is said that the stems do not ret uniformly.Sandy soils produce coarse fibre. Rich loams, thatis, rich mixtures of clay and sand, seem the best.In India, the finer varieties are cultivated on thehigher lands on which rice, pulses, vegetables andtobacco are grown ; such crops are often rotated withthe finer qualites of jute. The coarse and largervarieties are grown on alluvial deposits and islandsformed by rivers, and also on the lowlands liable toinundation. The plant also grows on salt-impreg-nated soils, such as those of the Sunderbans. Cultivation The soil is broken up thoroughly and finely pulver-ised, heavy or clayey soils requiring more ploughingthan lighter or alluvial soils ; the more thorough theploughing the better the yield. In India, 4-12ploughings are given with the primitive ploughs of thecountry, and at the last ploughing all weeds arecollected, dried and b

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