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Notes on Kenya Agriculture Plantation Crops
(1959) Hanger, B.F.
The sixth edition of this useful pocket reference book has been revised and enlarged by the staff of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture under the editorship of Professor A. B. Killick. New sections have been added ('n soil and water conservation, grasses, insecticides, fungicides and herbicides, while the sections on weights and measures, labour,machinery, manures and fertilizers, feeds and feeding, animal husbandry, and statistics have been expanded and brought up to date. The previous five editions have proved their value during the past 24 years, but this revised edition can be recommended even more strongly to agricultural officers, farmers, and others who require quick references to facts and figures on tropical agriculture.
Notes on Kenya Agriculture V-Plantation Crops
(1959) Hanger, B.F.; Savile, A.H.; Bennison, R.H.; Wright, W.A.; Kroll, U.; Lerche, K.; Gill, S.S.; Gamble, G.; East African Tobacco Company Limited; Empire Cotton Growing Corporation; Department of Agriculture, Kenya
PROPAGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT The Seed.—Only seed from selected mother trees (ie clonal trees raised by vegetative propagation) should be used. Clonal seed supplies are available from Coffee Research Station, Ruiru. Seed taken from seedling trees produces sizeable minority of inferior plants. Sow seed immediately it is available to avoid decline in viability. Seed should have moisture content of 15-18 per cent.