In China during the summer months, all kinds of vegetable refuse are mixed with turf, straw, grass, peat, weeds, and earth, collected into heaps, and when quite dry, set on fire. After several days slow combustion the entire mass is converted into a kind of black earth. This compost is only employed for the manuring of seed. When seed time arrives one man makes holes in the ground, another follows with the seed, which he places in the holes, while the third adds the black earth. The young seed planted in this manner is enabled to push its rootlets through the hard, solid soil, and to collect its mineral constituents.
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Patea Mail, 5 February 1881, Page 4
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