Abstract

In planting in rows there is not only the advantage of having greater interspace in weeding for the coolies to move about without trampling the plants but also of immunity from damage by rats. My neighbours threw aside their doubts when they found that their seedlings were not healthy green and were stunted in appearance and that my single planted seedlings improved day by day and tillered freely; and, seeing that the thickly planted seed- lings were attacked by moths, they had all their subsequent crops planted with single seedlings. Having come to know the advan- tages of single planting, one and all of them decided to adopt single planting this year. I therefore publish the results of my personal experiences in single seedling planting so that other land owners may derive similar benefits. I therefore entreat all land owners to bestow their careful attention on all these points and to adopt, in practice, this good and profitable method of single planting without entertaining any doubts in their own minds or heeding the perverse criticisms of other people.

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